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by dTal 2456 days ago
>It seems the perfect target for a Manhattan project/moonshot sort of effort.

It would be funny, if it weren't tragic, how "manhattan project" and "moonshot" are the bywords for absurdly expensive government projects. Both these things were peanuts compared to the staggering amounts that politicians routinely fart away on practically overnight whims, for dubious and very likely corrupt reasons:

Manhattan project: $23 billion

Trump's wall: $22 billion

Moonshot: $288 billion

2008 bailouts: $700 billion

All US fusion research investment ever: ~$30 billion

Iraq war: $2 trillion