These scientific types are such dummies. Why not build it in IL instead of NY? Hello?
How many thousands of our taxpayer dollars did that silly model cost, including the economic and environmental impact statements?
"It costs about 10 times less to move the magnet from Brookhaven to Illinois than it would to build a new one," said Lee Roberts of Boston University, spokesman for the Muon g-2 experiment.
Even physicists can have problems with simple English.
I assume he meant one tenth as much to move... But I'm just guessing here.
Something has to fill the void from NASA.
You read my mind.
These egghead physicists are supposedly the biggest brainiacs on the planet, yet they couldn't figure out that it would be a lot simpler to ship the darn thing in pieces, then put it together at the end of the line.
Sheeesh....
I bet it didn’t qualify for free shipping. Even with Amazon Prime, I bet the shipping was outrageous.