tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post6399390877712037262..comments2024-03-28T18:57:15.124-06:00Comments on Wash Park Prophet: Tevatron will shut down in SeptemberAndrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post-35364475619020257362011-01-31T20:06:35.077-07:002011-01-31T20:06:35.077-07:00Tevatron is NOT expensive.
$50M/yr is NOT expensiv...Tevatron is NOT expensive.<br />$50M/yr is NOT expensive.<br />By contrast, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq together still cost over $11 BILLION<br />PER *MONTH*.<br />You could fund another FOUR YEARS of Tevatron for what it costs to stay in Afghanistan for ONE DAY.<br />Tevatron may be obsolete but I certainly don't see anyone lining up to make sure that physics and physicists in general remain supported, DESPITE THE FACT THAT SUCH SUPPORT COMES *CHEAP* compared to defense spending or other BIG-ticket items in the federal budget. How can anybody be optimistic about generating NEW PhD's in Physics when the job market for these OLD ones is about to get so much tighter?? Everything Obama said about this being another "Sputnik moment" (in his State of the Union address) IS UTTERLY belied by developments like this one and by the budgetary realities driving them.<br />http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33110.pdf :<br />"Comparing June of 2009 with June of 2010, average monthly DOD spending for Iraq fell by 25%<br />from $7.2 billion to $5.4 billion while troop strength dropped by 46%. For Afghanistan, average DOD<br />spending grew from $3.5 billion to $5.7 billion, a 63% change while troop strength grew by 70%. "georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05217036324558933645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14162253.post-18547993059818323102011-01-31T20:04:50.361-07:002011-01-31T20:04:50.361-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05217036324558933645noreply@blogger.com