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How did that turn into "not great, not terrible"? That's still 300,000 homes that could otherwise be powered. It's an enormous amount of electricity!
by tempfile 11mo ago
How did that turn into "not great, not terrible"? That's still 300,000 homes that could otherwise be powered. It's an enormous amount of electricity!
- ceejayoz 11mo agoAnd all we get out of CERN is… the entire modern economy. Their ledgers are balanced just fine for a while.
- tempfile 11mo agoThis is a very silly argument. The energy expended should be justified on its own (scientific!) merits. The fact the web happened to be invented at CERN has almost nothing to do with the fact that they burn through terajoules of electricity every year.
- ceejayoz 11mo ago> The energy expended should be justified on its own (scientific!) merits. Is the scientific merit of such a thing always immediately apparent?
- hengheng 11mo agoIn your opinion, what would instead justify the total cost of devoting 10'000 people's lives to basic research?