Big Science has a Twenty-Year Plan

Posted by jamie on Friday November 14, 2003 @04:40PM from the four-times-five dept.

Earlier this week, Energy Secretary Spence Abraham laid out the Office of Science's 20-year plan for building and upgrading the U.S.'s "Big Science" facilities. Twenty-eight programs got the nod, in all. The top priorities -- fusion, and a massive supercomputer. Other goals on the wish list include studying dark energy, high-speed atomic-scale imaging with an electron laser, and fulfilling several particle-physics dreams, including a collider to rival CERN's LHC. Here's the press release and the full list (PDF). Your grandchildren may write school papers on the discoveries these tools will make...

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Re:This is very similar to... by CrowScape · 2003-11-14 18:41 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Why pick on the defense budget ($358.2 Billion) when it's behind the budgets for Health and Human Services ($502 Billion) and Social Security ($509.9 Billion)?

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Re:This is very similar to... by Lord+Prox · 2003-11-14 23:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

DOH! Damn trolls.
I can't believe I fell for that one. Mod me down for feeding a troll.