How about we shove about 50 Texas Democratic State Reps in it and then backfill?
From the article---- The vast Atlas cavern, which was completed last week at Cern, the European nuclear physics laboratory on the Franco-Swiss border, will house parts of a giant atom-smasher that is expected to solve the most elusive riddle in physics.
If I remember correctly #42 cut funding for this project, while cutting back the Military Funding too.He sure found time to give bonuses to the tune of 28 Million dollars to Gov't workers at taxpayer expense though didn't he? One more abuse swept under the rug, because the economy was on fire.The mere fact that the French people will have one-upped America by building their own atom smasher, should offend any American who has even the slightest interest in physics.It's another example in the long line of actions #42 took, in not helping America to become the best/strongest/most going forward country possible.
One of the more surreal things I've heard recently was Mickey Dolenz (yes, of The Monkees) on local Houston talk radio (950 AM KPRC) explaining why scientists wanted to build the Superconducting Supercollider...
He was in town to star as the bad guy in a Houston production of the rock-opera version of "Aida", and was hitting the talk radio circuit as PR. During the interview he mentioned that he hated the idea of being a "celebrity", which he defined as "someone famous for being famous", and he'd rather get jobs or invitations based on his actual abilities, like music, acting, or his interest in quantum physics. So later in the show someone asked him a physics question about what the SSC would have been for. He gave a great and coherent answer, but it was just bizarre to hear one of the Monkees expounding on theoretical physics. That's about the last thing I expected when I turned on the radio that day.