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Golden Dome Projected to Cost Exponentially More Than the Manhattan Project | A lot of folks are skeptical the shield would even work as advertised.
A lot of folks are skeptical the shield would even work as advertised.
Donald Trump has many grand plans for America, one of the more ambitious of which is to create a giant invisible space shield that theoretically protects the country from rockets. That project, which created an incredibly powerful weapon that actually works (about 200,000 people died to prove it), cost America approximately $35 billion (estimate here adjusted for inflation). A report published in April by the American Physical Society Panel on Public Affairs said the following: “When engineers have been under intense political pressure to deploy a system, the United States has repeatedly initiated costly programs that proved unable to deal with key technical challenges and were eventually abandoned as their inadequacies became apparent.” In other words, the Golden Shield may end up being an ambitious project that serves, mostly, to fatten the pockets of the contractors who work on it.
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