I think that's Rossler's goal: to make building the LHC so expensive that not even all the GDPs of all the world's countries put together could pay for it. And even if the world could afford it, they'd have to get it past the usual whining of the "we've got to solve all our problems on Earth first before going into space" crowd.

Meanwhile, what do we do with that tunnel under France and Switzerland? Grow mushrooms and age Rouquefort for the starving?

Edited to add: Of course in a few hundred years when we do have the capability of putting an accelerator ring about the Moon's equator, wow, what an accelerator that will be! We can accelerate electrons and positrons with it to absurdly high energies (by our current limited capabilities) without having to worry about the losses from synchrotron radiation. But until then we'll have to make do with what we have. The LHC is not a giant piece of chopped liver by any stretch of the imagination!

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