Re:Air Travel Emissions Vastly Outpace Predictions
by dTal on Saturday September 21, 2019 @01:37PM
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>It seems the perfect target for a Manhattan project/moonshot sort of effort.
It would be funny, if it weren't tragic, how "manhattan project" and "moonshot" are the bywords for absurdly expensive government projects. Both these things were peanuts compared to the staggering amounts that politicians routinely fart away on practically overnight whims, for dubious and very likely corrupt reasons:
Manhattan project: $23 billion
Trump's wall: $22 billion
Moonshot: $288 billion
2008 bailouts: $700 billion
All US fusion research investment ever: ~$30 billion
It would be funny, if it weren't tragic, how "manhattan project" and "moonshot" are the bywords for absurdly expensive government projects. Both these things were peanuts compared to the staggering amounts that politicians routinely fart away on practically overnight whims, for dubious and very likely corrupt reasons:
Manhattan project: $23 billion
Trump's wall: $22 billion
Moonshot: $288 billion
2008 bailouts: $700 billion
All US fusion research investment ever: ~$30 billion
Iraq war: $2 trillion