As much as I love science, and I’d much rather see billions spent on a collider than war, I gotta admit this is funny as hell.

I’d rather have a 100km particle collider than an aircraft carrier.

If scientists had their way they’d have built the big one first. Or at least something reasonably larger than what they have… it’s politics that is capitalism and war that is the addiction preventing us from having nice things

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.