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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I look at the inability to fund big science projects like this, I'm reminded of the most fictional thing to ever happen in a science fiction movie.

The film? Contact.

They build a giant portal machine thing.

Gets blowed up by terrorists.

But that's okay, because they've got another one!

What?

Yep!

"Why build one when you can build two for twice the price?"

FALSE. SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF FAILURE. ABORT.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wasn't the second one built by an eccentric billionaire or something? Like a Howard Hughes type.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was actually the us government that built a second one in secret, which actually sounds about right.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Close. The US controlled it but it was built by Japanese subcontractors who just happen to be...

...recently acquired... ...wholly-owned subsidiaries... ...of Hadden Industries.

Want to take a ride?

*I love that film despite all its flaws.