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sudoshakes@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Elon Musk could have actually done something for humanity and build two of those instead of buying Twitter.

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  • Acters@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • Necromnomicon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah but where is the short term ego boost in that? He needs his dopamine NOW!

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And he’s driven the value down below the price of one collider. He’s lost an entire super collider!

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  • Steve@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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    • fox@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I disliked the truth of what you wrote so much, I initially downvoted you.

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  • spectre@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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    • wahming@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There’s a reason he lost that brand years ago

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• arin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Upkeep might be expensive, but 22 billion is probably lower bound estimation, highly likely to 5x that at least

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  • TigrisMorte@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So, we'll need to kill fewer brown children to pay for it?

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    • WhiteHawk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is Switzerland you’re talking about, they make money when people get killed

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      • JustMy2c@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Understood, the world needs to kill more brown people, so we can afford rate particles . ***not my opinion

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    • ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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!

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    • JustMy2c@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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      • TigrisMorte@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Found a future Federal Reserve banker!

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  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Maybe the government should spend less on avocado toast.

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• SrTobi@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 😐

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  • EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Chobbes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The US has given 4 times that to Ukraine. That’s 2/3rds the budget of NASA.

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  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Necromnomicon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Only about half a penny of every federal tax dollar goes to NASA.

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      • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Source www.space.com/10849-nasa-budget-contribute.html

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    • uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is one-time vs recurring payment

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      • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s why I compared it to 44x the initial jwst budget

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  • psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Money spent fighting a morally justifiable war with Russia that we aren’t actually having to fight is money well spent IMO.

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  • daellat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They have mostly given stuff they weren’t going to use anymore worth that amount when bought new.

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  • psmgx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • petersr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I guess everything is relative.

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