[ahmadmijot]

> My doctoral thesis project used roughly 1/2 million dollars of gear,

Wow I envy you. My doctoral thesis project spent like... USD2.5k directly for gears (half of it just to buy lego bricks to build our own instrument exactly because we can't afford to buy commercial one lol)

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I used a 3 billion dollar space telescope. I don't think NASA are going to launch another to replicate some of my results.