[outinyellowdogcountry]

I always thought he killed it because it was in Texas. What a waste of time and resources but maybe the new research of the same sort was better? Where did they finally do that research?

[Calvin Locke]

CERN. I forget how much the US taxpayers still ending up paying, but the Europeans got a lot of construction and manufacturing jobs out of it.

And France got a new N-plant, rather than building new power plants in Texas.

[TiaS]

You could be right about that — New Mexico made a bid for the project as well. It went to CERN in Switzerland.

[SgtHooper]

I was there as a Senior Engineer in Magnet Testing. It was a typical smeer job by the press. Congress was turning it’s eye to cutting funds; SSCL went down, and then NASA as well, but nothing happened to NASA.

What happened to the SSCL was a travesty. From that point forward, the big science no longer occurred in this country. In this case, we “outsourced” it to CERN. We send money and tech to CERN. It was NOT rampant overspending at the SSCL. It was a failure to communicate to the public the benefits of such science.