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Governmental Funding for Science: Quo vadis?
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There are numerous large scientific projects requiring the support of many countries. The cost of something as extensive as, for example, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, would have been impractical or impossible for a single government to fund. Large optical telescopes on the ground and in space are, to use an appropriate term, astronomically expensive. Space science in general relies on a multinational approach not only because of the cost but