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It cost 2 billion in 1939. That’s over 20 billion in today’s dollars. That’s about the same as NASA’s annual budget.
by mr_toad 7y ago
It cost 2 billion in 1939. That’s over 20 billion in today’s dollars.
That’s about the same as NASA’s annual budget.
- xyzzyz 7y agoYes, and that's smaller than a rounding error in our current $4.7T budget. Hell, the $100B (today's dollars) Apollo program would also be smaller than the rounding error, since it was spread over a decade. The R&D costs on F-35 were almost triple the whole costs of Manhattan project. Truly, we are easily able to afford projects like Manhattan and Apollo today, it's just we aren't able to pull them off anymore.
- JamesBarney 7y agohttps://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/12/united-states-should-prepare-build-prototype-fusion-power-plant-panel-says https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/12/united-states-should... But of that 4.7T budget we only spend 600 million of that on fusion research.