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Re:CERN approves plans for a $23B, 62-mile long super-collider by newsclues on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @04:23PM (#23619737)
Surely you see the hazard in funding expensive wildly speculative projects?

If you fail once, fail again but bigger... who cares it’s not our money and the bigger our project the more we pay ourselves...

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Re:CERN approves plans for a $23B, 62-mile long super-collider by rowanG077 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @04:41PM (#23619954)
That's why scientific projects are still judged by panels. It's not like money is thrown at any random project. It must have merit and be judged to actually be able to test a hypothesis.
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