And could someone please tell me why we pulled the plug on our own SUPER COLLIDER in Texas?
Billions were spent, it was 7/10ths the way built. It offered hope and promises that only forward thinking people could ever understand!
And it was either Bushie 1 (rhino extraordinaire,) or Bubba, that put a stop to it. (Sorry, I just can’t remember.)
Methinks that if the true story be known, there was a whole lot more there than meets the eye.
But then again, I’m an old Bircher. I still have my little Blue Book. The one that I got ridiculed for. “Where’s your tin foil hat?”
Now I watch Beck, and Hannity and even Rush, proclaim that “Hey, we FOUND a commie under your bed!” Well freakin surprise, surprise A$$hats!!
Read the little blue book. These modern days “visionaries” now know what we did so many years ago. There really was a conspiracy, it really did (does) exist. It really WAS meant to destroy the Republic. (sigh)
Well, no sh!t Sherlock, you’re only 30 years tooooo late and about 14 trillion toooo short.
I must apologize. It’s coming into April, the month that we bugged out on a stalwart ally, millions of people died. Despite what John Effin Currysouce and Janie Porn Queen Fondle said wouldn’t happen.
Good night.
The wind died down.
“And could someone please tell me why we pulled the plug on our own SUPER COLLIDER in Texas?”
Home Depot bought the Super Collider tunnel and chopped it up to sell as post holes...
It was killed in 1993 by Congress. A few buildings were constructed, but nowhere near 7/10ths built.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_Super_Collider
Billions were spent, it was 7/10ths the way built. It offered hope and promises that only forward thinking people could ever understand!
The physicists in charge could never make the case to congress that the vast expense, and very large proportion of the total science budget, was an important national priority. They only succeeded in making the case that it was important for their careers. They had a lot of hubris.
I remember one congressman saying that basically the only reason he had been given for the project was "so that some physicist can be the Captain Ahab of the top quark". I heard a physicist whining that the project should not be cancelled because then he would have to move and find new schools for his kids.
I'm not sure that it is true that the project was 7/10 complete. They may have dug a lot of the hole but the equipment was not ready and they definitely had not spent 7/10 of the money required.
P.S. I just looked it it up and at the time of cancellation they had only dug 27% of the hole and had spent nearly 3 times the original estimated cost. Also, according to Wikipedia, Clinton was against the cancellation.
During the design and the first construction stage, a heated debate ensued about the high cost of the project. In 1987, Congress was told the project could be completed for $4.4 billion, and it gained the enthusiastic support of Speaker Jim Wright of nearby Fort Worth.[4][dubious – discuss] By 1993, the cost projection exceeded $12 billion. A recurring argument was the contrast with NASA's contribution to the International Space Station (ISS), a similar dollar amount.[citation needed] Critics of the project argued that the US could not afford both of them. Early in 1993 a group supported by funds from project contractors organized a public relations campaign to lobby Congress directly,[5] but in June, the non-profit Project on Government Oversight released a draft audit report by the Department of Energy's Inspector General heavily criticizing the Super Collider for its high costs and poor management by officials in charge of it.[6][7] A high-level schematic of the lab landscape during the final planning phases.-- WikipediaCongress officially canceled the project October 21, 1993.[8] Many factors contributed to the cancellation: rising cost estimates; poor management by physicists and Department of Energy officials; the end of the need to prove the supremacy of American science with the collapse of the Soviet Union; belief that many smaller scientific experiments of equal merit could be funded for the same cost; Congress's desire to generally reduce spending; the reluctance of Texas Governor Ann Richards;[9] and President Bill Clinton's initial lack of support for a project begun during the administrations of Richards's predecessor, Bill Clements, and Clinton's predecessors, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. However, in 1993, Clinton tried to prevent the cancellation by asking Congress to continue "to support this important and challenging effort" through completion because "abandoning the SSC at this point would signal that the United States is compromising its position of leadership in basic science".[10]
The closing of the SSC had adverse consequences for the southern part of the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, and resulted in a mild recession, most evident in those parts of Dallas which lay south of the Trinity River.[11] When the project was canceled, 22.5 km (14.0 mi) of tunnel and 17 shafts to the surface were already dug, and nearly two billion dollars had already been spent on the massive facility.[12]
But then again, I’m an old Bircher. I still have my little Blue Book.I do not know a lot about the John Birch Society but I do believe that, like McCarthy, they turned out to be right about the infiltration of American society and government by communists.