On: Sad Trombone Exoplanet Reality Check

[creshal]

> The entire yearly budget for the US armed forces is around $600 billion.

Oh, only.

My point still stands: 2.5T isn't that much for a project at a national, or even global, scale. A mere ten times ISS and ITER and LHC combined? Absolutely doable.

[tptacek → creshal]

No part of your original point appears to have survived that rebuttal.