On: Arecibo Observatory Collapsed

[NikolaeVarius]

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 System Current Budget: $20 billion

ITER: Proposed Budget : 22 Billion Euro Current Proposed Budget: 64 Billion Euro

There are lots of science projects that are funded. Some of them just get more attention than others

[light_hue_1 → NikolaeVarius]

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-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.