An evening pause: Worth watching, though this underground telescope won’t be operational any earlier than 2032, and considering the present political situation related to government funding, it might never get finished at all.
Hat tip Cotour.
A sign of the budgetary times: The Department of Energy has scrapped plans to build a neutrino experiment, costing $1.5 billion, in the now-closed Homestake gold mine in South Dakota.
A new report released today says a new underground physics lab will cost the Energy Department from $1.2 to $2.2 billion.
Though I know the science is worthwhile and we should be doing it, I also can’t help ask this question: Where the hell are we going to get the money?
