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Re:Particle physics may have reached the end of the line by Analog24 on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @08:21PM (#18985165)
No it's not. The LHC uses as much power as a small to medium sized city [0]. The next generation collider will obviously require a lot more energy.

What's your point anyways? We should only consider the cost and environmental impact of something if it's comparable to the most costly and impactful endeavors out there?

[0] https://home.cern/science/engineering/powering-cern

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Re:Particle physics may have reached the end of the line by ravedave5 on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:25PM (#18985714)
How much energy do you think the US military goes through in a day? LHC is probably .1% of that.
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Re:Particle physics may have reached the end of the line by Analog24 on Monday January 28, 2019 @02:13PM (#19020186)
So why do we bother doing anything? Why recycle at all? Let's just give up everything since the US military blows us all away in terms of scale.
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