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In article <25356@dog.ee.lbl.gov> sichase@csa2.lbl.gov writes:
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>As far as the cost per scientist being small compared to funding each 
>one individually - that's hard to imagine.  These scientists are already
>being individually funded on smaller projects.  If your claim were true then
>the HEP budget would have no problem accomodating the pooled needs of all
>these people to get the SSC built - there should even be money left over.

In one sense, HEP could afford to build the SSC without any new money.  I 
say this since the operating budget for HEP in the DOE is about what is 
being spent annually to build the SSC.  (The SSC budget will be slightly 
bigger in 93, and will ramp up some more, but is close to the steady-state 
payout if my memory is correct.)  The problem is, you would have to shut 
down everything for 10 years while you built the thing ... so there would 
be no one to use it when it was done unless all the pieces were built by 
the future users like in the olden days. 

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