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by l33tman 1479 days ago
And yet 15M people yearly are still visiting those "useless" pyramids 4600 years after they were built.
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Sure, but the people 4600 years ago were the ones that paid the price for building the pyramids. How do 15M people visiting it today help them?

We're talking about using everybody's money for these science projects. And this is not money that's voluntarily given, it's taken.

If the Egyptians had built a literal money pit 4600 years ago, tourists would now be visiting that.
I don't really want to dispute that, just want to paint a more realistic of what these scientific projects actually are. They are not investments for sure.