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[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

well i mean to be fair, it was also on a really big boon of massive military spending, and the debt was a significant problem, plus this was like a fucking massive collider for the time, and probably even now.

The sheer cost alone of it i think was like 20 billion dollars near the tail end of development, not to mention they had basically redesigned the entire fucking thing by that point since they had dropped an entire team. It was a fucking mess.

[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Right! Think of those quarters' balance sheets!

Scientific progress? Peoples bonuses were on the line

Edit: it's good that our government protected America and left innovation to Europe

yeah unfortunately the public and government just weren't very perceptive to a massive scientific project which would almost certainly many times overrun the budget outlined for it. Socioeconomics are hard...