• frezik@midwest.social
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    The Large Hadron Collider and the International Space Stations are amazing wonders. It used to be that humanity’s most expensive projects were religious temples. Now it’s machines for scientific research. Some people apparently have a problem with this, and they’re generally not the sort of people I like to be around.

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      Those are exceptions. The majority of our (visible) expensive projects today are homages to power and money

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        Yep. It’s 2024, and rich men are still funding projects to glorify themselves and assuage their ego.

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      It used to be that humanity’s most expensive projects were religious temples. Now it’s machines for scientific research.

      I wish that were true, but the world spends far more on machines of war than we spend on science.