A particle collider was turned on last night in Switzerland, and the earth wasn't swallowed up by a black hole.
Lest we forget, the United States government planned a supercollider for Texas back in the 1980s-1990s. Due to parochial thinking (Pork! For my state!), the first Bush Administration neglected to persuade foreign governments to help fund the thing, and so we sank $2 billion into it and then let it die. In retrospect, the projected cost of $8.25 billion doesn't look too bad for something which would have done basic science, particularly when the new collider in Geneva is reported to have cost -- $8 billion.
Posted by Linkmeister at September 10, 2008 08:52 AM | TrackBack