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> A funding level of $2 million was authorized In government terms that's pretty small. I guess even if there's a low chance of working, the payoff if it did
by RobotToaster 10mo ago
> A funding level of $2 million was authorized
In government terms that's pretty small. I guess even if there's a low chance of working, the payoff if it did would be huge.
- firesteelrain 10mo agoI agree. $2million is small. Where I work, I am regularly given budgets well over that to buy software or hardware.
- lagniappe 10mo agoAt the time, 2 million was an appreciable sum. Maybe not to a government, but that wasn't chump change back then the way it is now.
- firesteelrain 10mo agoThat is true. I didn’t take into account inflation.
- lagniappe 10mo agoSadly, I don't think any of us did or do.
- rendx 10mo agoIn case anyone was wondering: > $2,000,000 in 1991 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $4,759,500.73 today https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1991?amount=2000000 https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1991?amount=20000... Second source: https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=2%2C000%2C000.00&year1=199101&year2=202511 https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=2%2C000%2C000.... > $4,816,077.27 Still not a lot.