@SCALETHEORY@mastodon.social CERN is financed with about 1 Billion swiss franks per Year. And if I had to choose between CERN and bringing dead wight to mars - I would choose CERN any day. (Reading your post, I get the impression that you think CERN is conducting research on nuclear fusion. But that’s not the case—or only to a very limited extent. I would agree that it is unnecessary to invest money in nuclear fusion research. We ALREADY HAVE solutions to that problem—and they're cheap, such as PV e.g.)