Dude literally owns a boring company, he could have ate the cost of digging the tunnel to specifications and still have more money than buying xitter

And he's driven the value down below the price of one collider. He's lost an entire super collider!

I disliked the truth of what you wrote so much, I initially downvoted you.

You may not realize this, but the twitter money still exists. The former owners of twitter have it under their mattress right now, why don’t they build a supercollider?

I mean we all know this, but if he wants his "brand" to be "Mr. Nerd Shit" why tf does he miss such obvious Ws?

So, we'll need to kill fewer brown children to pay for it?

Pff the UK is spending that on a 70 mile railway thats going to be slower than the one already there, already spent nearly 2x the projected FCC budget on just 6 miles of the fucking thing.

Maybe the government should spend less on avocado toast.

The problem is a train needs to transport humans, whereas the collider just needs to transport teeny tiny particles and keep a receipt of their arrival.

I guess everything is relative.

That's actually surprising that NASA only has 50% more budget than a single particle accelerator, given the huge number of cutting edge projects NASA is working on.

Money spent fighting a morally justifiable war with Russia that we aren't actually having to fight is money well spent IMO.

They have mostly given stuff they weren't going to use anymore worth that amount when bought new.

How many people has the moon killed? Cuz Russia has killed tens of thousands. They've lost on the order of 250k of their own guys, and probably inflicted roughly the same numbers on the AFU.

The moon doesn't kill old ladies sitting in their apartment.

This initial budget estimate is 44x the 500M initial estimate of the jwst for comparison. Jwst eventually ballooned to 20B, but I'm guessing this would similarly balloon over time as well.