Super Collider

CERN wasn’t the first

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Super Collider

Super Collider

We like a bit of underground here at the rabble dungeon but we’d no idea about this until we slid across it this morning on t’internet. It seems the yanks abandoned a CERN-like super collider only after pumping $2bn into the ground in Texas.

After building 14 miles of tunnels the projected expenditure was topping out at $12bn and the govt. pulled the plug, deciding instead to invest in the International Space Station. This was in the early 80’s and would have dwarfed the contemporary super collider had it been completed.

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