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[–] Ensign_Crab 206 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Guys, the trick is to get it partially built and then cancel funding. Then scientists will never trust you to fund anything ever again, and you get to act like science is a waste of money while you're spending ridiculous sums on fighter jets.

Yes, I am still bitter about Waxahatchie.

[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

TIL

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

He's a great video documentary about it by Bobby Broccoli if you want information and have two hours.

https://youtu.be/3xSUwgg1L4g

[–] slinkie 6 points 1 year ago

Wow, thanks to that article TIL about the George H. W. Bush vomiting incident

[–] AngryCommieKender 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would have loved for the SSSC to have been built as well. It probably wouldn't have found the highs boson till 2010 or maybe as early as 2009. The computer technology of the 90s would have severely limited the things ability to be understood. CERN creates GB of data per second. I can't imagine what that thing would have done, and then we need to be able to process that much so we can filter out the noise.

I was 12 when it was announced that they weren't gonna finish buildt it, and even though I was just a kid in IN, something shattered for me that day. That was almost as bad as watching Challenger.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think we realized halfway through building that we couldn't build bombs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That project put my dad out of business. Government gave him (part of) the contract, he did a bunch of work for years and then poof, project gone, not gonna pay you for it.

[–] GenesisJones 2 points 1 year ago

I was looking for this comment lol