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Originally Posted by Khorum  meh SSC > LHC  Fucking Clinton, we would've found the Higgs boson years ago.
Since this is the book forum, there's an EXCELLENT book built around the tragic loss of the American SSC called Einstein's Bridge, written by John Cramer a celebrated particle physicist who was witness to the liberal betrayal of American Science.
The money saved for closing what could've been the greatest scientific monument since the Library of Alexandria was then used to subsidize life-affirming things like hemp research, college admission quotas, and making sure that people who dropped out of grade school to pursue a life lived under heroin get a fair shake at your children's job.
Like practically every other published American physicist, Cramer now works at CERN. |
Nothing peeves me more then politicians being so short sighted when it comes to science. NASA, SSC - these type programs are really the only future humanity has.
The world economy will collapse due to a lack of key naturaul resources, and if we aren't on our way to exploiting/colonizing space by the time this happens then we're fuxxed. There's a book out somewhere (forget the name) that talks about the natural resource point of no return for colonizing and getting into space in a serious way - says if we don't do it by XXXX, then it will be next to impossible for it to happen because the resources/fuel won't be there. I can't remember the year quoted, but it was in the 2000's.
Was a pretty plausable book, but of course crazy advances in science can solve lack of resource problems - but that won't happen cause we're to busy trying to pay for brainless dolts to go to college so they can learn to hate there country and read poetry. Fuck.