I didn’t ask how much was spent on LIGO. I asked how much was spent on EHT. Those are very different projects.
(So I’m afraid everything you wrote above was irrelevant to the question I asked. I regret not making it clearer, though I confess I’m not quite sure how I could have made it clearer since what I wrote was “You call the EHT a multi-billion-dollar project. I don’t think I believe you. Can you provide some actual figures?”.)
Also, in case it wasn’t obvious, the question about the cost of EHT was very much the least important part of what I wrote; obviously it doesn’t make much difference to the rightness or wrongness of your claims about LIGO whether you got the size of the EHT project right or not.
I didn’t ask how much was spent on LIGO. I asked how much was spent on EHT. Those are very different projects.
(So I’m afraid everything you wrote above was irrelevant to the question I asked. I regret not making it clearer, though I confess I’m not quite sure how I could have made it clearer since what I wrote was “You call the EHT a multi-billion-dollar project. I don’t think I believe you. Can you provide some actual figures?”.)
Also, in case it wasn’t obvious, the question about the cost of EHT was very much the least important part of what I wrote; obviously it doesn’t make much difference to the rightness or wrongness of your claims about LIGO whether you got the size of the EHT project right or not.