Posted on 04/25/2006 7:21:47 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
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We need an accelerator like this to find the 'conservo-neuterino' that causes Republican cojones to shrink past the event horizon of political consciousness once they're elected to DC.
Whatever happened to the Texas Supercollider project? I know it got scrapped, but what happened to the site itself?
Cool article. But I am getting a little jealous of European science. They are going after more pure research like that to be accomplished with the LHC. I wish I was better at explaining why this sort of this is so critical to do. To many people have the attitude that if private enterprise won't do it, then it isn't worth doing. The technical spin offs from just building the thing are impressive enough. But what free market would think looking for the Higgs boson would be a direct money maker?
Took you two tries to post that crying baby picture, eh? Oh, well...
--Took you two tries to post that crying baby picture, eh? ---Oh, well...
Yep, first time I've ever done it. By the way...it was a response to a question, not the article.
We let it get away, but building the Super-collider ("Super-Clyde") would have eaten much of the national science budget for some time. Tough call either way.
I think they just dumped rubble in it and capped it off.
Where is America's Superconducting Supercollider? For that matter, where is America's moon base?
LOL!
The SSC was its own line item; it didn't come out of the DOE budget.
And then you have to ask what science was funded by the windfall of the SSC cancellation.
Thanks for the ping!
This is probably old but I saw it for the first time last week .
The new element has been named *Governmentium*.
Governmentium (Gv) has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy
neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of
312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are
surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.
Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert.
However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with
which it comes into contact. A minute amount of Governmentium can cause
a reaction that would normally take less than a second to take over four
days to complete.
Governmentium does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in
which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange
places. In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time,
since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons,
forming isodopes.
This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe
that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical
concentration! This hypothetical quantity is referred to as Critical
Morass.
When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium - an
element which radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has
half as many peons but twice as many morons."
LOL! -- if it was old, I hadn't seen it before. Thanks.
Good science. Soon to islamic Europe.
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