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The Manhattan Project cost $12b ($800m at the time), less than half the Merced-to-Bakersfield train currently under construction (which is also taking much longer)

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Shell corpo by local politicians extracting wealth from the treasury. What do you call those parasites?

I toured a nuclear silo converted into a museum recently and the tour guide said each silo cost about $12 million at the time. Granted it was in the 60s & 70s, but still seemed incredibly cheap considering the insane engineering & materials required.

The more contractors in the mix, the longer the project takes.
How many subcontractors do you think the Manhattan project had?
I guarantee you its less than the train project.

https://patrickcollison.com/fast

List of things we used to do incredibly fast.

A large bunch of Captains of Industry took Leave of Absence to work for the government for $1 a year. Maybe that helps with the math

UK’s HS2 line from London to Manchester has entered the chat with estimated £72-98bn ($90-120bn USD) total cost for a 140 miles of railway