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$721.5 billion per year, to be more specific. While the collider cost is one-time.
by bufferoverflow 6y ago
$721.5 billion per year, to be more specific.
While the collider cost is one-time.
- dekhn 6y agoThe operating budget for LHC is $1B/year.
- ssully 6y agoWhile I still agree on wanting to direct money from military to science, it isn't a one time cost. In 2012, the yearly budget for the LHC was 1 billion [1]. [1]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/07/05/how-much-does-it-cost-to-find-a-higgs-boson/#3d629aac3948 https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/07/05/how-much-d...
- lgl 6y agoThat's still pocket change and pretty irrelevant in context since merely half of 1 year's budget of the US military would still be able to power the LHC for over 350 years.
- UweSchmidt 6y agoThe military budget is practically not available for redistribution without a complete political overhaul. Many people could be fed and many nice projects could be financed with that money. As it is, the supercollider money comes from the limited science budget, and buying the one thing means we can't have the other.
- spekcular 6y agoI don't think there's a substitution effect for these one-off mega-projects in practice. When the US collider was canceled, that money was transferred to other projects. It just wasn't spent on science at all.