Upkeep might be expensive, but 22 billion is probably lower bound estimation, highly likely to 5x that at least
Comment on bro pls
sudoshakes@reddthat.com 7 months ago
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arin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
TigrisMorte@kbin.social 7 months ago
So, we'll need to kill fewer brown children to pay for it?
WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is Switzerland you’re talking about, they make money when people get killed
JustMy2c@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Understood, the world needs to kill more brown people, so we can afford rate particles . ***not my opinion
ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Man, that’s just not in the budget. How am I supposed to scratch my need-to-kill-brown-kids itch without the taxpayer money we specifically set aside for this purpose?
What kind of absurd ideas are you gonna come up with next? No more instigating strife in the middle east? Pah! Not on my watch!
JustMy2c@lemm.ee 7 months ago
That would be too hard, but we can just try and save some money on useless things and if people don’t accept cutting benefits just raise the interest rates, all of them are underwater anyway
TigrisMorte@kbin.social 7 months ago
Found a future Federal Reserve banker!
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Pff the UK is spending that on a 70 mile railway thats going to be slower than the one already there, already spent nearly 2x the projected budget on just 6 miles of the fucking thing.
frezik@midwest.social 7 months ago
Maybe the government should spend less on avocado toast.
SrTobi@feddit.de 7 months ago
First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Fucking hell, we can’t get a tramway for 10b CAD around here and a 12km tunnel under a river was going to cost half a 100km collider 😐
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 7 months ago
The problem is a train needs to transport humans, whereas the collider just needs to transport teeny tiny particles and keep a receipt of their arrival.
Chobbes@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The particle collider also doesn’t need to ensure the safety of the particles. Frankly, if it did it would be a rather shitty collider.
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 7 months ago
I do love the image of scientists constructing little half buckyball helmets that they lovingly wrap around a lead atom before yeeting it to .9995% the speed of light
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
The US has given 4 times that to Ukraine. That’s 2/3rds the budget of NASA.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
That’s actually surprising that NASA only has 50% more budget than a single particle accelerator, given the huge number of cutting edge projects NASA is working on.
Necromnomicon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Only about half a penny of every federal tax dollar goes to NASA.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
uis@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is one-time vs recurring payment
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
That’s why I compared it to 44x the initial jwst budget
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Money spent fighting a morally justifiable war with Russia that we aren’t actually having to fight is money well spent IMO.
daellat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They have mostly given stuff they weren’t going to use anymore worth that amount when bought new.
psmgx@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How many people has the moon killed? Cuz Russia has killed tens of thousands. They’ve lost on the order of 250k of their own guys, and probably inflicted roughly the same numbers on the AFU.
The moon doesn’t kill old ladies sitting in their apartment.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
This initial budget estimate is 44x the 500M initial estimate of the jwst for comparison. Jwst eventually ballooned to 20B, but I’m guessing this would similarly balloon over time as well.
uis@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I don’t remember where I heard that science is super cheap, but I did not belive it first. Some time later I see that it is.
petersr@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I guess everything is relative.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 7 months ago
Elon Musk could have actually done something for humanity and build two of those instead of buying Twitter.
Acters@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Dude literally owns a boring company, he could have ate the cost of digging the tunnel to specifications and still have more money than buying xitter
Necromnomicon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yea but his boring company isn’t particularly useful for anything other than stymieing public transportation programs by acquiring contracts with cities and then doing nothing with them. Almost like he has an interest in selling more cars than expand public transit… allegedly.
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Not even allegedly. I could be wrong but I thought he admitted publicly at one point that was the whole idea behind The Boring Co. It might have even been on Rogan. Anyone remember or have a clip? Jamie, pull that up.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Yeah but where is the short term ego boost in that? He needs his dopamine NOW!
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And he’s driven the value down below the price of one collider. He’s lost an entire super collider!
Steve@startrek.website 7 months ago
You may not realize this, but the twitter money still exists. The former owners of twitter have it under their mattress right now, why don’t they build a supercollider?
fox@hexbear.net 7 months ago
I agree, those dicks definitely could be doing better with their money and we should take it away from them for societally useful things.
pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de 7 months ago
I disliked the truth of what you wrote so much, I initially downvoted you.
spectre@hexbear.net 7 months ago
I mean we all know this, but if he wants his “brand” to be “Mr. Nerd Shit” why tf does he miss such obvious Ws?
wahming@monyet.cc 7 months ago
There’s a reason he lost that brand years ago