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Re:To my surprise and elation, the Webb Space Telescope is g... by orbital-decay on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:49PM (#30096338)
>Selling a program to taxpayers as a 500 million dollar endeavor and then extracting ten billion dollars from them is the kind of thing that should put people in prison for life.

Would you say the same about LIGO, for example? Originally thought to be easy, it turned out to be a 40 years long endeavor.

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Re:To my surprise and elation, the Webb Space Telescope is g... by causi on Friday January 28, 2022 @05:43PM (#30121494)
LIGO is a great example! The LIGO project repeatedly failed to meet requirements and in exchange had its funding requests rejected. The project management was completely restructured, with several people including the original team lead ejected from their roles. Only after coming up with a new budget were they granted additional funding, and after meeting those requirements they were given $200 million in additional funding with which they increased LIGO sensitivity by 400%.
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