\nAlready braced for a tight 2006 budget, the National Science Foundation (NSF) got some disappointing news yesterday from a Senate spending panel that voted less money for the agency than even the president’s stingy request.
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\nThe spending panel delivered its most decisive blow to Brookhaven National Lab’s Rare Symmetry Violating Processes (RSVP), a high-energy physics experiment to look for effects beyond the Standard Model. Calling increased cost estimates to keep the project going “unacceptable,” the Senate panel withheld not only the $42 million requested to start building RSVP in 2006 but also some $14 million already given to RSVP planners but not yet spent. To add insult to injury, the appropriators told NSF that any revised version of the project would have to go back to square one in an approval process that typically takes several years.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The NSF budget is around 5.5 billion dollars. Spending on the Iraq war now tops $170 billion dollars which works out to funding NSF for 30 years. Maybe scientists need to change their tactics. Maybe we should propose that in 30 years worth of research we will be able to invent a device which kills evil people and democratizes nations. I’m just saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From a Science article: Already braced for a tight 2006 budget, the National Science Foundation (NSF) got some disappointing news yesterday from a Senate spending panel that voted less money for the agency than even the president’s stingy request. … The spending panel delivered its most decisive blow to Brookhaven National Lab’s Rare Symmetry Violating … <\/p>\n
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