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I mean, this sounds nice and all, but it is CLEARLY false James Webb Space Telescope: Proposed Budget: $500 mil Current Budget: $10 Billion Space Launch Syste

• light_hue_1 6y ago
  No, it's right. > James Webb Space Telescope: Proposed Budget: $500 mil Current Budget: $10 Billion That is over 40 years! Almost 30 years to build it and 10 years to operate it. That's $250 million per year. > Space Launch System Current Budget: $20 billion SLS is not a science program. > ITER: Proposed Budget : 22 Billion Euro Current Proposed Budget: 64 Billion Euro The proposed budget is 22 billion, not 64. That's for almost 40 years of construction and 20 years of operation. So we're talking 60 years of funding. Think about that, this is something that could revolutionize everything! Save the planet too. We're spending 360 million per year or so on it. That's absurd. There are a few big science projects, and even they get very modest funding. Let us put the F-35 into context. It will cost 1.7 trillion dollars for 55 years. That's an insane amount of money, 30 billion per year. https://www.stripes.com/news/us/pentagon-reportedly-estimates-that-the-f-35-budget-plan-is-running-10-billion-short-through-2025-1.644700 https://www.stripes.com/news/us/pentagon-reportedly-estimate... We fund science, which improves our lives and saves us from pandemics, at a pittance, and fund insane programs to bomb poor people at crazy levels.