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[–] daniyeg@lemmy.ml 111 points 6 months ago (4 children)

for context 22 billion is a few billions less than what elon musk overpaid for twitter. i don't think a bigger collider will do anything but I'd like for humanity to have this rather than whatever the fuck the rich are doing now.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 50 points 6 months ago (2 children)

22 billion is half of what Elon paid for Twitter. He paid 44 billion.

So this seems like a pretty good bargain for unlocking the secrets of the universe.

[–] daniyeg@lemmy.ml 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

if i remember correctly twitter was evaluated as 20 billion before musk bought it, so he overpaid by 24 billion dollars which is a couple billion dollars more than the price tag quoted here.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

To be fair I think he only paid $14 billion. The rest came from other investors like Saudia Arabia

[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

For your money you can have "A social media platform that's on fire or the secrets of the universe and money for another project. What do you choose?" "The dumpster fire social media platform"

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah.... And at least this will generate jobs... And not reduce them like it did on Xitter.

[–] zarcher@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

Cern has produced quite some interesting systems for software and data management. I am sure the added value of the work is beyond just understanding particles.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago

LHC and previous colliders did a lot of science. You don't need to think, there are facts.

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)