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Re: by RobotToaster on Monday December 29, 2025 @08:41AM (#46420643)
> A funding level of $2 million was authorized

In government terms that's pretty small. I guess even if there's a low chance of working, the payoff if it did would be huge.

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Re: by firesteelrain on Monday December 29, 2025 @08:45AM (#46420696)
I agree. $2million is small. Where I work, I am regularly given budgets well over that to buy software or hardware.
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Re: by lagniappe on Monday December 29, 2025 @09:33AM (#46421130)
At the time, 2 million was an appreciable sum. Maybe not to a government, but that wasn't chump change back then the way it is now.
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Re: by firesteelrain on Monday December 29, 2025 @09:46AM (#46421259)
That is true. I didn’t take into account inflation.
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Re: by lagniappe on Monday December 29, 2025 @09:59AM (#46421381)
Sadly, I don't think any of us did or do.
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Re: by rendx on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @02:37PM (#46437064)
In case anyone was wondering:

> $2,000,000 in 1991 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $4,759,500.73 today

https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1991?amount=20000...

Second source: https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=2%2C000%2C000....

> $4,816,077.27

Still not a lot.

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