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$17bn is the recent cost esitmate for the FCC. That's more than Europe spends on space, roughly two times the cost of the JWST. It's quite close to NASA's budge
by aDyslecticCrow 2y ago
$17bn is the recent cost esitmate for the FCC. That's more than Europe spends on space, roughly two times the cost of the JWST. It's quite close to NASA's budget, and that's the estimated cost of the first stage of the project.
Particle accelerators are the very definition of diminishing returns currently.
- Timon3 2y agoDo you have concrete examples of research that could be conducted if the money were invested into "space science"? I doubt that it would improve the speed of progress by much - ESA already has a budget of close to €8bn, and the increase in speed of progress is rarely linear in respect to investments, unless some necessary threshold is reached. I'm not saying that no such examples exist, but I need concrete examples. Possible new research for the FCC is pretty well defined, meeting similar requirements should be easy if there really are so many better places to invest the money.