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...high, especially given that the collider will probably remain powered down until April due to a recent malfunction. But what hasn’t been in the news is that LHC comes 15 years too late and on the wrong continent. A potentially more powerful collider, the Superconducting Supercollider (SSC), was being constructed in Waxahachie, Texas in the early 1990s, but after much debate, Congress cut its funding in 1993 and had workers dismantle its 14 miles of underground tunneling. Without money, the project quickly collapsed. The official website is still frozen in time at early...
...What happened? SSC was criticized by Congress for going over its budget. At a time when NASA was demanding large amounts of funding for the International Space Station and the end of the Cold War made scientific competition appear unnecessary, the collider seemed like a luxury...
...from the discoveries made at CERN without having to foot the bill. But we risk losing our leadership role in science and technology if we continue to let similar landmark projects be completed elsewhere. As President Clinton wrote in 1993 in a vain attempt to stop the cancellation of SSC, “the United States is compromising its position of leadership in basic science - a position unquestioned for generations.” In the time since then, we have also allowed our advantage in manned spaceflight to crumble—with the space shuttle’s mandatory retirement...
...businesses, and force others to enlarge, she believes: "It'll be easier to take them under centralized control that way." She may be right. Last summer, Russian President Vladimir Putin endorsed restoring the state monopoly on production and distribution of ethyl alcohol. And proposals for a State Shareholding Committee ( ssc) to take over the legal alcohol market, worth some $20 billion a year, are still before the Duma. Meanwhile, the new laws have not worked as planned. To get their stocks relabeled, retailers returned their bottles to suppliers. But just a fraction of the needed new labels had been made...
...Supercollider Big Science took a big hit when Congress finally pulled the plug on the Superconducting Supercollider, the 54-mile-around atom smasher that was supposed to be the world's largest and most sophisticated scientific instrument but is now just a $2 billion hole in the ground. The SSC was doomed when its projected cost escalated from $5 billion to more than $11 billion, making it look less like Big Science and more like Big Bloated Bureaucracy...