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.
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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.
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
