re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth

Rand Paul makes this cost look like a 9 digit number by giving three decimal paces for the cents. In reality that cost is less than $1 million, which really is not worth complaining about at the Federal level.

Useless people like congressional representatives would probably be terrified by the amount of hard, thankless work it is to prepare and evaluate such funding proposals.

Edited to add: Back in the days when I worked at a defense contractor, the rule of thumb was that the firing of a single cruise missile cost as much as a typical front-end government research project.