I fixed that for ya.
Genuinely my first reading
Science experiments should have some accountability as well.
I know all about the techniques. I've been in the meetings. I've seen the spreadsheets. Your parametric cost model is adorable.
But at the end of the day, you're just lying with math.
And if you have to lie a little bit to get a space telescope built... no sweat.
Budget back in 2012 was 600 million: https://cerncourier.com/a/euclid-to-link-the-largest-and-sma...
I don't know how badly inflation hits these projects, but that's around 820 million in today's money, which means roughly 580 million over budget. And I've no doubt that 600 million was only floated around in the first place to satisfy a bureaucratic manager who imagines that putting a number next to everything makes things efficient.