Today we took a short trip from the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex to visit the abandoned Superconducting Super Collider site near Waxahachie. Something on the order of $2 billion was spent and 12 miles of tunnels bored before US Congress abandoned the project in 1993 due to managerial and funding issues. Or as far as we’re told, that is what happened.
This atom-smasher would have dwarfed both FermiLab and the LHC in Cern, Switzerland, which is still not yet fully operational. You cannot help but imagine how much more we would know about our universe today if this project had been completed.
You couldn’t have said it better…well maybe.
Our ignoramus politicians made that “cost saving” decision.
Imagine, scientists from all over the world would be living here, buying houses and cars and eating at restaurants and other stuff. I think we would have gotten an economic payback and put Dallas on the scientific map.
Seems like Newt Grinch was involved with that. So was Bill Clinton, but at least I think he defended it. Have to read up the the history of that.