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Projects like this used to happen in America back when this country aspired towards greatness. I'd rather see scientific endeavors such as this Large Hadron Collider funded with my tax dollars as opposed to entitlement programs for the stupid and lazy and free drugs for old people.

That's because America has become a nation of settlers.

We used to be a nation of pioneers, and at some point in the last few decades we were emasculated, and have become a nation that is afraid of exploration and the unknown.

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Photo of the electrodes (gold) for the ALPHA Penning trap being inserted into the vacuum chamber and cryostat assembly. Scientists at CERN said they had trapped dozens of hydrogen "antimatter" atoms, a technical feat that boosts research into one of the great puzzles of particle physics. (ALPHA/Swansea/Niels Madsen)

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A technician walks under the core magnet of the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN in the French village of Cessy, in a file photo. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse.