Is it just me or do Hollywood bad guys throw around comically low numbers? Like, the putative price for the research program behind Jurassic Park wouldn’t even fund the CGI dinos to say nothing about the real ones.
I dug up Ernest Rutherford's lab budget at one point. It was hundreds of pounds (thousands of 2018 dollars) for such things as discovering the atomic nucleus, the proton, and a whole bunch of other things.
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Since quite a few people are reading this, I should clarify: later in his career his budget kept rising & rising. I guess to hundreds of thousands of today's dollars. Still very inexpensive (a few seconds of Jurassic Park CG). And much of his best work was done early in career
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that's uncanny - leaving aside infrastructure, where lab techs and such much much cheaper at the time?
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It's possible the techs were part of overhead, i.e., supporting infrastructure provided by the university. (It was tough to find, and I made the mistake of not bookmarking it, so I won't try to dig it up right now. In a footnote found on G. Books, I believe.)
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Would probably pay for at least 1 or 2 frames of CG in the new Jurassic Park movies.
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Did the budget also say where the money came from?
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Don't remember.
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Where does one dig up old lab budgets?
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Annoying how smaller particles cost more. They're heavier, but the price per ounce is higher.
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Man I really need to write a thread on the history of experimental 20th century physics. Quantum mechanics all started with people just looking at a furnace, so cool
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