08-13-2013, 11:29 PM
Z wrote:
[quote=vision63]
[quote=ztirffritz]
If you want to go down that road...
We probably could have outfitted Hyperloop routes from LA to NYC, Atlanta, New Oleans, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco and back to LA for what we've spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Probably several times over actually. Recent estimates put the cost at $3-$4 Trillion. I'm not making any political comments pro/con war, but it does put the numbers in perspective.
[quote=decay]
spend the War On Drugs budget on it.
http://www.drugsense.org/cms/wodclock
The U.S. federal government spent over $15 billion dollars in 2010 on the War on Drugs, at a rate of about $500 per second.
Source: Office of National Drug Control Policy
State and local governments spent at least another 25 billion dollars.
Source: Jeffrey A. Miron & Kathrine Waldock: "The Budgetary Impact of Drug Prohibition," 2010.
We could wrangle the funds from the impending Iranian invasion and use 'em for cool projects like this.
And thus we slide to the other side...
I don't think there will be an invasion, I was stretching to make a bad joke.