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It’s Christmas day! Even more excitingly, it’s the day that the @NASAWebb telescope takes to the skies!
But how much did it cost? I made a festive infographic to put it into context.
Details and data at steele.link/jwst
#JWST #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope
ALT James Webb Space Telescope How much does it cost? James Webb Space Telescope: $10.8bn ($33 per American) America’s Christmas presents this year: $226bn ($686 per American) Thanks for giving the gift of knowledge! Merry Christmas from science!
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Is science saved? Were we at @ScienceIsVital right to hang up our lab coats and placards?
You’ll be unsurprised to know, it’s a bit more complicated than that…
THREAD bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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Depressing to see that science continues to be a political football… Now the Government promises to make us a ‘science superpower’, but the impact of its short-sighted decisions in other areas impact upon our research funding. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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How much did it cost to land @NASAPersevere on the surface of Mars?
About the same as @Avengers Endgame grossed in cinemas…and 0.4% of the *annual* US military budget.
Full data and sources: scienceogram.org/blog/2021/0…
ALT How much does space exploration cost? Perseverance $2,900,000,000 Nuclear-powered six-legged Mars rover in search of life Voyager 1 & 2 $2,800,000,000 Twin probes which explored the outer Solar System Rosetta $2,100,000,000 First ever landing on a comet Avengers: Endgame $2,800,000,000 Box office gross US military spending $690,000,000,000 Annual Department of Defense budget https://scienceogram.org/
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Cancer Research UK is being forced to cut £150m in research and 500 staff because coronavirus has hit the charity’s income hard.
The Government is committed to doubling research funding. Bailing out CRUK and other medical charities would be a great start. scienceblog.cancerresearchuk…
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Coronavirus: what the hell do we do now?!
I think the media coverage of covid is too focussed on the day-to-day and not enough in what comes next. So I made a video to try to work it out.
Please share! If everyone who watches it sends it to 2–4 friends… youtu.be/bygIMiNnlVE
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Great thread about how science funding fails in times of crisis. People working on other stuff have time to apply for new covid grants. Actual coronavirus experts are so run off their feet they’ve not got time to write an application. xitter.cf/firefoxx66/status/1245…
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This is peanuts—less than $10 per person for the billion or so of us living in the high-income countries. It’s an investment that would pay itself back many, many, many times over.
Governments, businesses, billionaires—get on it!
#coronavirus #COVIDー19
$8 billion is urgently needed for the global research response to #COVID19.
The cost of inaction now will be more significant in the long term – both for lives and livelihoods everywhere.
Find out more 👉 wellc.me/2IT4ohj | #OutsmartEpidemics #coronavirus
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.@CEPIvaccines desperately needs more funding to develop a #coronavirus vaccine. They’re asking for $2bn—less than £30 per person in the UK, and about $6 per American.
Please share our infographic: scienceogram.org/blog/2020/0…
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A #coronavirus vaccine needs someone to stump up $2bn for testing. That’s less than 0.1% the amount governments have already spent on bailouts. @CEPIvaccines will run out of money in a week.
Here’s an infographic from @scienceogram.
More info: scienceogram.org/blog/2020/0…
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We made an animation about why it’s so important to #StayAtHomeSaveLives
Please RT!
#coronavirus #COVIDー19 #COVID19 #covid19UK #StayTheFHome #LockdownNow
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So HS2 could go £30bn over-budget: theguardian.com/uk-news/2019…
It really puts our failure to invest in science in perspective: *just the cost overrun* is almost enough to develop nuclear fusion.
Here’s something I wrote back when the budget was just £50bn… theguardian.com/science/blog…
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After a quiet year from Science is Vital, and with heavy hearts, we have decided to move to dissolve the organisation.
Read more, and find out about what will likely be our final AGM, here: scienceisvital.org.uk/2018/0…
#scienceisvital
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This is obviously great news, but for a bit of perspective…£86m is just over £1 per UK person, set against the >£2000 we spend on energy EVERY YEAR scienceogram.org/in-depth/en… xitter.cf/TimHarford/status/9390…
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Our take on today’s budget for research: the right direction, but a way to travel yet #scienceisvital #Budget2017 scienceisvital.org.uk/2017/1…
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Turns out cleaning up the Gulf oil spill in 2010 cost about the same as it would to develop fusion… A single oil spill. Madness.
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This article by physicist Steve Cowley making the case for funding nuclear fusion research is excellent theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Here's 0.02% of those Cassini images: nytimes.com/interactive/2017…. Bargain. xitter.cf/scienceogram/status/90…
As @CassiniSaturn approaches its #GrandFinale, we ask: how much did it cost? scienceogram.org/cassini #Cassini #CassiniFinale #GoodbyeCassini
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One last plug for our #Cassini infographic! Please RT :) #GoodbyeCassini #GrandFinale #NASASocial #Saturn #CassiniGoodbye xitter.cf/scienceogram/status/90…
As @CassiniSaturn approaches its #GrandFinale, we ask: how much did it cost? scienceogram.org/cassini #Cassini #CassiniFinale #GoodbyeCassini