Well, this is more personal story than reportage. I thought it might contain more of a description of Fermilab's contributions to the Linux environment. (Which coexist with and will apparently now be carried forth by CERN endeavors.) Nonetheless, interesting.
This is the first time I've seen a dollar amount cited for the proposed savings by closing Fermi. $35 million / year. $35 million / year! Now I am truly depressed, and trying to work up a case of my now mostly exhausted anger. A drop in a drop in the budget, for fundemental research as well as all the commercial spinoffs it generates (materials, systems (e.g. clustering in Linux), technical careers).
If that's how we're budgeting, this country is indeed fucked.
This is the first time I've seen a dollar amount cited for the proposed savings by closing Fermi. $35 million / year. $35 million / year! Now I am truly depressed, and trying to work up a case of my now mostly exhausted anger. A drop in a drop in the budget, for fundemental research as well as all the commercial spinoffs it generates (materials, systems (e.g. clustering in Linux), technical careers).
If that's how we're budgeting, this country is indeed fucked.