• @troglodytis
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    Yep, that was when the US jumped the shark. It was the exact moment, Oct 20, 1993, we went “fuck science, we’re only doing short term profits now.”

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      This would have created a strong science hub and community in Texas, a real reason for the state to be proud of itself, looking towards the future like it did in the 1960s, and that was due to the Democrats with LBJ.
      Now instead, they got assault rifle-totin’, shit-kicking knuckle-draggers for life, as the whole place builds up inertia sinking into a festering swamp of its’ own ignorance.

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        61 month ago

        yeah, would be interesting to see the alternate universe where it was finished and built…

        • @niktemadur
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          101 month ago

          There would have been t-shirts
          EVERYTHING’S BIGGER IN TEXAS
          INCLUDING SUPERCOLLIDERS

          Would we have never heard the end of republicans bitching and whining about the cost and “our taxpayer dollars” and all that idiocy?

          Who knows, considering Texan lawmakers carry an outsized weight in the republican party, and this project meant thousands upon thousands of skilled, high-paying jobs, including creating large new communities populated by scientists from all over the world.

          Then after beating CERN to the punch to first detect the Higgs Boson, they would have draped themselves in the flag while chanting USA, USA, USA…

          But ignorance and myopia are the horses pulling the republican cart.

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            11 month ago

            gotta love politics, only the most interesting of all the boring fields put together!

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        We fucked, we need 60s back (with all the mindset).

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      well i mean to be fair, it was also on a really big boon of massive military spending, and the debt was a significant problem, plus this was like a fucking massive collider for the time, and probably even now.

      The sheer cost alone of it i think was like 20 billion dollars near the tail end of development, not to mention they had basically redesigned the entire fucking thing by that point since they had dropped an entire team. It was a fucking mess.

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        Right! Think of those quarters’ balance sheets!

        Scientific progress? Peoples bonuses were on the line

        Edit: it’s good that our government protected America and left innovation to Europe

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          01 month ago

          yeah unfortunately the public and government just weren’t very perceptive to a massive scientific project which would almost certainly many times overrun the budget outlined for it. Socioeconomics are hard…