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Re:CERN approves plans for a $23B, 62-mile long super-collider by adventured on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @11:25AM (#23615152)
> CERN isn't a US government project and the US doesn't provide funding.

That's news to US taxpayers, which have provided money to CERN projects for decades, including LHC. Half a billion dollars for LHC was considered a lot of money back in 1997 (when US GDP was ~37% the size it was in 2019).

2008: "On Monday, the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation announced that the United States has completed - on budget and ahead of the September 30, 2008 milestone - its contribution to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Under its agreement with CERN, the U.S. contributed $531 million of accelerator components and particle detectors for the LHC."

https://www.aip.org/fyi/2008/us-contribution-lhc-budget-and-...

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Re:CERN approves plans for a $23B, 62-mile long super-collider by dukwon on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:29PM (#23618142)
The US's contributions to CERN are equipment and services rather than money, but indeed they are a big contributor. They are certainly the largest participating country in the LHC by number of scientists.
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Re:CERN approves plans for a $23B, 62-mile long super-collider by 9OzUIvDwF4LvfUM on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:34PM (#23619103)
The US isn't on here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN#Member_states_and_budget

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Re:CERN approves plans for a $23B, 62-mile long super-collider by nix23 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @05:43AM (#23625999)
Cern is European, the counterpart in the US are fermilab, they are highly knitted together.
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