• @[email protected]
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    The Large Hadron Collider and the International Space Stations are amazing wonders. It used to be that humanity’s most expensive projects were religious temples. Now it’s machines for scientific research. Some people apparently have a problem with this, and they’re generally not the sort of people I like to be around.

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      64 hours ago

      It used to be that humanity’s most expensive projects were religious temples. Now it’s machines for scientific research.

      I wish that were true, but the world spends far more on machines of war than we spend on science.

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        23 hours ago

        Warfare science is still science and often has the benefit of funding groups that develop civilian science as well. Civie science doesn’t pay as well as the brass do

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      166 hours ago

      Those are exceptions. The majority of our (visible) expensive projects today are homages to power and money

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        23 hours ago

        Yep. It’s 2024, and rich men are still funding projects to glorify themselves and assuage their ego.