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So how much this picture cost ?

by hathym 8y ago

fabricexpert 8y ago
$40m So basically nothing in the grand scheme of anything.
- coldpie 8y ago
  I've taken to measuring moderately large amounts of money in "juiceros". Forty million dollars is one third of a juicero.
- acqq 8y ago
  That's half the cost of a single F-35 fighter plane. Just US alone will pay for around 2500 of them (2010 estimate), and plans to pay around 4 times more than that to maintain them. So just F-35 total costs for US are equivalent to 25000 scientific projects like this one. To compare, it would be one new project like this every day for 70 years! This specific project is more European or even a world project than just US, if I understood correctly.
  - imtringued 8y ago
    It makes sense to compare the costs to a single plane but to the whole fleet is just stupid. You can't defend a country with scientific projects. The thing is every time someone proposes the idea to slash the military budget to fund something else there are at least a hundred other people with a different idea on what to use the funds on. If the funds were spread over so many different projects you end up with an insignificant sum in each of them. Spending the money on military might be actually be advantageous because of large investments in new military technology end up benefiting the civilian sector. (Isn't that the point of the F-35?)
    - acqq 8y ago
      It’s the opposite: most of the military money goes to the stuff which, if actually used, ends the human civilisation as we know it. The same goals that US has could be achieved with orders of magnitude less military spending, while also reducing the risks for the whole humanity. So every alternative to the current practices is infinitely better.
derpherpsson 8y ago
Whenever this type of question comes up, how much science cost, think about the following: It costs more to do a sciency Hollywood movie about than it costs to actually do the science. Sending an actual probe to the orbit of Mars is in general cheaper than making a sci-fi movie. So...

So how much this picture cost ?

by hathym 8y ago

So how much this picture cost ?

fabricexpert 8y ago

$40m So basically nothing in the grand scheme of anything.

coldpie 8y ago
I've taken to measuring moderately large amounts of money in "juiceros". Forty million dollars is one third of a juicero.
acqq 8y ago
That's half the cost of a single F-35 fighter plane. Just US alone will pay for around 2500 of them (2010 estimate), and plans to pay around 4 times more than that to maintain them. So just F-35 total costs for US are equivalent to 25000 scientific projects like this one. To compare, it would be one new project like this every day for 70 years! This specific project is more European or even a world project than just US, if I understood correctly.
- imtringued 8y ago
  It makes sense to compare the costs to a single plane but to the whole fleet is just stupid. You can't defend a country with scientific projects. The thing is every time someone proposes the idea to slash the military budget to fund something else there are at least a hundred other people with a different idea on what to use the funds on. If the funds were spread over so many different projects you end up with an insignificant sum in each of them. Spending the money on military might be actually be advantageous because of large investments in new military technology end up benefiting the civilian sector. (Isn't that the point of the F-35?)
  - acqq 8y ago
    It’s the opposite: most of the military money goes to the stuff which, if actually used, ends the human civilisation as we know it. The same goals that US has could be achieved with orders of magnitude less military spending, while also reducing the risks for the whole humanity. So every alternative to the current practices is infinitely better.

derpherpsson 8y ago

Whenever this type of question comes up, how much science cost, think about the following: It costs more to do a sciency Hollywood movie about than it costs to actually do the science. Sending an actual probe to the orbit of Mars is in general cheaper than making a sci-fi movie. So...