[q_an_a]

just think what might be happening in Texas if Newt and a bunch of penny pinching GOP had not shut down the Super Collider 8 years ago. We spent more money on an overpass project called the High 5, conservative but short sighted GOP leaders stopped the idea machine and sent it to the Swiss.

Now we see funding for NanoTechnology by the Defense Dept, like money for the Internet spent 20 years ago. Good ideas are part of building and defending the country. Jobs come from research like this and the research is often funded by government. /broken promises for science research rant off.

[Lauretij2]

I have to agree, the shutting off to the Super Collider was one of the biggest mistakes Republicans ever did.

[Moral Hazard]

"just think what might be happening in Texas if Newt and a bunch of penny pinching GOP had not shut down the Super Collider 8 years ago."

Yeah, they might have discovered the Higgs Boson. Just think of the commercial implications!

[Physicist]

just think what might be happening in Texas if Newt and a bunch of penny pinching GOP had not shut down the Super Collider 8 years ago.

The Supercollider was cancelled in October, 1993. It happened on the Dems' watch.

I know this because I was hired at Penn in August, 1993 to do detector design for it.

For the record, I don't know that it would have been of much direct utility for this sort of technology (not that that was its purpose).

[KevinDavis]

I think it was shut down in 93..

[doc30]

I thought it was democrat senators from states that lost out to Texas that had it killed (e.g. Mass.) If they couldn't get the funds for such a big project, no one would. Too much opportunity for missappropriation to let that one go by.