Re: really big physics

On 2/04/2025 6:59 am, john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 15:35:16 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
 

On 4/1/2025 2:02 PM, john larkin wrote:

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https://www.breitbart.com/news/scientists-release-plans-for-an-even-bigger-atom-smasher-along-the-french-swiss-border/
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Watching the technocrat STEM supremacy-type conservatives fight it out
with the back-to-nature, government should never do anything except
enforce the 10 Commandments, science is the tool of Satan-style
conservatives in the comments is always a treat.

  Gosh, what are you smoking today?

It seems to have given him an access to the real world that many Americans lack.

At least one correctly notes that it was a Democrat-majority Congress
that cancelled the Superconducting Super Collider in '93. I wonder how
many of the Clinton administration's playbooks are left lying around in
DC, the Clintons should probably sue DOGE for plagiarizing their ideas.

 We managed to make some money on the SSC. They actually built the
helium processing facility in Waxahatchie, and we sold them a bunch of
CAMAC cryogenics instrumentation, liquid helium temperature and level
measuring stuff.

Strange how this godless communism still managed to put money into the pockets of people with far-right political opinions.

But the Reagan administration sure was a different time it's like the
right simply hasn't really known what to do with itself for 30 years,
until Trump showed up to give this cat-herding exercise a heavy dose of
identity politics to bond over.

 Makes you sad.

Trump's antics are amusing, but he's doing real harm. Once his lunatic ideas get enough traction to cut into the profits of big business he'll be neutralised. He didn't do a lot of damage in his first term - half million more deaths from Covid-19 than there should have been was bad, but few of them were seriously rich. The tactics that neutralised him then presumably won't work as well the second time around, but peole with lots of money can buy a lot of creative help.