Everyone immediately rushed to Nova Technologies' website to read the full announcement after the summarized version dropped. And just as they had thought, there were a ton of information missing from the summaried version.
The reaction to the announcement was split across different lenses.
The scientists reached the research zones first, and for a while the discourse belonged entirely to them. The numbers stopped every serious institution cold.
A Mini zone was three hundred million dollars a year on a two-year minimum — six hundred million just to hold the smallest door open — and the Large zones ran ten billion annually on a five-year commitment, of which only five existed and never would again.
A director at a European physics consortium posted a thread that traveled across every academic network within the hour. He had run the comparison against his own institute's entire annual budget.
