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[–] niktemadur 52 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

This would have created a strong science hub and community in Texas, a real reason for the state to be proud of itself, looking towards the future like it did in the 1960s, and that was due to the Democrats with LBJ.
Now instead, they got assault rifle-totin', shit-kicking knuckle-draggers for life, as the whole place builds up inertia sinking into a festering swamp of its' own ignorance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

yeah, would be interesting to see the alternate universe where it was finished and built..

[–] niktemadur 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There would have been t-shirts
EVERYTHING'S BIGGER IN TEXAS
INCLUDING SUPERCOLLIDERS

Would we have never heard the end of republicans bitching and whining about the cost and "our taxpayer dollars" and all that idiocy?

Who knows, considering Texan lawmakers carry an outsized weight in the republican party, and this project meant thousands upon thousands of skilled, high-paying jobs, including creating large new communities populated by scientists from all over the world.

Then after beating CERN to the punch to first detect the Higgs Boson, they would have draped themselves in the flag while chanting USA, USA, USA...

But ignorance and myopia are the horses pulling the republican cart.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

gotta love politics, only the most interesting of all the boring fields put together!

[–] 33550336 4 points 7 months ago

We fucked, we need 60s back (with all the mindset).