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60 Minutes Visits One Of The Biggest Science Experiments Ever, The Large Hadron Collider
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- A bit of perspective to add...earlier in the program Leslie Stahl, while in Iraq, brought up the fact that we are spending 10 BILLION dollars a MONTH...in Iraq.
Steve Croft, in his piece about the super collider, questioned the spending of 8 billion dollars...we literally throw more money down the drain each month than the scientists spent on this machine that could very well change the world in one form or another.
That being said I am very appreciative of Steve Croft''s piece on this collider. I am NOT appreciative of the money we are throwing down the bottomless pit of Iraq, who, by the way, have billions of their own money to spend.
Just sayin... - Reply to this comment
- Just explain why we are not doing this in Texas and why members of Congress wanted to flood the facility under construction so it could never be used. With people like that, we will never need enemies.
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- Yes, the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) in Waxahachie, Texas. It was supposed to be BIGGER and MORE POWERFUL than the CERN machine. The U.S. House of Representatives decided in 1993 to halt the SSC project after
14 miles of tunneling were completed and two billion dollars spent.
We wasted 2 BILLION dollars. So stupid. - Reply to this comment
- This story really was fascinating. It is as if I have a chance to witness some great scientific discovery in the making, and Steve Croft gave me the opportunity to participate, albeit on a very limited and distant level. I found the story a source of intrigue and hope, and somehow comforting in the midst of the turbulent economy challenges. Go figure! It is so thrilling to see and hear brilliant Americans and international scientists working together on such a phenomenal project.
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- Well, I see that the US has blew it again... I was just watching the story about the Big Bang Machine... It is nothing new... A few years ago, the US was oin to build the same machine in Ellis, County, Texas... They in fact, had it started and the Congress of the US took the money away from it...
Just how stupid do they think we really are? I do not like the idea of us spending money and then giving it away, so that we cannot get anything from it... I call that waste... I really would like a response to my comment...
Jim - Reply to this comment
