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22 Feb 2021
How much did it cost to catapult @NASAPersevere across the Solar System and lower it by sky crane onto the surface of Mars to look for signs of life?
We crunched the numbers. And it turns out that Mars rovers are a bargain… scienceogram.org/blog/2021/0…
ALT How much does space exploration cost? Perseverance $2,900,000,000 Nuclear-powered six-legged Mars rover in search of life Voyager 1 & 2 $2,800,000,000 Twin probes which explored the outer Solar System Rosetta $2,100,000,000 First ever landing on a comet Avengers: Endgame $2,800,000,000 Box office gross US military spending $690,000,000,000 Annual Department of Defense budget https://scienceogram.org/
25 Dec 2021
Congratulations to @esa and @NASA for the successful launch of the @NASAWebb telescope!
If you’re wondering how much this incredible feat of science and engineering cost, @statto has just the infographic for you! #JWST #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #JamesWebb x.com/statto/status/14747111…
25 Dec 2021
It’s Christmas day! Even more excitingly, it’s the day that the @NASAWebb telescope takes to the skies!
But how much did it cost? I made a festive infographic to put it into context.
Details and data at steele.link/jwst
#JWST #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope
ALT James Webb Space Telescope How much does it cost? James Webb Space Telescope: $10.8bn ($33 per American) America’s Christmas presents this year: $226bn ($686 per American) Thanks for giving the gift of knowledge! Merry Christmas from science!
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25 Dec 2021
It’s Christmas day! Even more excitingly, it’s the day that the @NASAWebb telescope takes to the skies!
But how much did it cost? I made a festive infographic to put it into context.
Details and data at steele.link/jwst
#JWST #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope
ALT James Webb Space Telescope How much does it cost? James Webb Space Telescope: $10.8bn ($33 per American) America’s Christmas presents this year: $226bn ($686 per American) Thanks for giving the gift of knowledge! Merry Christmas from science!
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21 Jun 2021
Is science saved? Were we at @ScienceIsVital right to hang up our lab coats and placards?
You’ll be unsurprised to know, it’s a bit more complicated than that…
THREAD bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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20 Mar 2021
Depressing to see that science continues to be a political football… Now the Government promises to make us a ‘science superpower’, but the impact of its short-sighted decisions in other areas impact upon our research funding. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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19 Feb 2021
How much did it cost to land @NASAPersevere on the surface of Mars?
About the same as @Avengers Endgame grossed in cinemas…and 0.4% of the *annual* US military budget.
Full data and sources: scienceogram.org/blog/2021/0…
ALT How much does space exploration cost? Perseverance $2,900,000,000 Nuclear-powered six-legged Mars rover in search of life Voyager 1 & 2 $2,800,000,000 Twin probes which explored the outer Solar System Rosetta $2,100,000,000 First ever landing on a comet Avengers: Endgame $2,800,000,000 Box office gross US military spending $690,000,000,000 Annual Department of Defense budget https://scienceogram.org/
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16 Jul 2020
Cancer Research UK is being forced to cut £150m in research and 500 staff because coronavirus has hit the charity’s income hard.
The Government is committed to doubling research funding. Bailing out CRUK and other medical charities would be a great start. scienceblog.cancerresearchuk…
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21 Apr 2020
Coronavirus: what the hell do we do now?!
I think the media coverage of covid is too focussed on the day-to-day and not enough in what comes next. So I made a video to try to work it out.
Please share! If everyone who watches it sends it to 2–4 friends… youtu.be/bygIMiNnlVE
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4 Apr 2020
Great thread about how science funding fails in times of crisis. People working on other stuff have time to apply for new covid grants. Actual coronavirus experts are so run off their feet they’ve not got time to write an application. x.com/firefoxx66/status/1245…
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26 Mar 2020
This is peanuts—less than $10 per person for the billion or so of us living in the high-income countries. It’s an investment that would pay itself back many, many, many times over.
Governments, businesses, billionaires—get on it!
#coronavirus #COVIDー19
25 Mar 2020
$8 billion is urgently needed for the global research response to #COVID19.
The cost of inaction now will be more significant in the long term – both for lives and livelihoods everywhere.
Find out more 👉 wellc.me/2IT4ohj | #OutsmartEpidemics #coronavirus
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26 Mar 2020
We need $2bn to carry on work developing #coronavirus vaccines. But no-one’s giving @CEPIvaccines the cash. Yet governments have already committed to spend over 1000× this much on #COVIDー19 economic bailouts.
Infographic and analysis: scienceogram.org/blog/2020/0…
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26 Mar 2020
$2bn is less than £30 per person in the UK, $6 per American, and $1.60 per inhabitant of the ‘high-income countries’—the richest billion or so people in the world. A #coronavirus vaccine would have economic benefits that far outstrip this tiny investment.
We need to step up!
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25 Mar 2020
.@CEPIvaccines desperately needs more funding to develop a #coronavirus vaccine. They’re asking for $2bn—less than £30 per person in the UK, and about $6 per American.
Please share our infographic: scienceogram.org/blog/2020/0…
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25 Mar 2020
A #coronavirus vaccine needs someone to stump up $2bn for testing. That’s less than 0.1% the amount governments have already spent on bailouts. @CEPIvaccines will run out of money in a week.
Here’s an infographic from @scienceogram.
More info: scienceogram.org/blog/2020/0…
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24 Mar 2020
Not our usual science funding infographics, but @statto and @drmedtran made this animation about why it’s so important to #StayAtHomeSaveLives. Please share! #coronavirus #COVID19 #lockdown x.com/statto/status/12421389…
23 Mar 2020
We made an animation about why it’s so important to #StayAtHomeSaveLives
Please RT!
#coronavirus #COVIDー19 #COVID19 #covid19UK #StayTheFHome #LockdownNow
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23 Mar 2020
We made an animation about why it’s so important to #StayAtHomeSaveLives
Please RT!
#coronavirus #COVIDー19 #COVID19 #covid19UK #StayTheFHome #LockdownNow
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27 Aug 2019
For any followers Down Under, did you know that there’s a growing Australian Scienceogram?
Check out @SarahScience1’s first investigation, uncovering how the Australian Government inflates its internal R&D stats: x.com/ScienceogramAu/status/…
26 Aug 2019
We've analysed the Australian Government's Science, Research and Innovation Tables, and the result is startling. $9.6 bn for R&D in 2018/2019? Less than $7 bn, according to the OECD definition of R&D.
Read more here...
scienceogramaustralia.com/20…
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21 Jul 2019
So HS2 could go £30bn over-budget: theguardian.com/uk-news/2019…
It really puts our failure to invest in science in perspective: *just the cost overrun* is almost enough to develop nuclear fusion.
Here’s something I wrote back when the budget was just £50bn… theguardian.com/science/blog…
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