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Breaking Into the Super Collider

Posted by Soulskill on from the checking-for-black-holes dept.

BuzzSkyline writes "A group of physicists went AWOL from the American Physical Society conference in Dallas this week to explore the ruins of the nearby Superconducting Super Collider. The SSC was to be the world's largest and most ambitious physics experiment. It would have been bigger than the LHC and run at triple the energy. But the budget ran out of control and the project was scrapped in 1993."

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  1. it wasn't marketed properly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    They should've called it the "Texas World Science Racetrack" and listed as one of the goals "Determine the conditions of the world at the time of its creation in 4004 BC".

  2. Just like Chernobyl by Lev13than · · Score: 3, Funny

    They missed a great opportunity to bring motorcycle helmets with them and make a whole website about their 'ride' through the famed "Superconducting Super Collider Exclusion Zone".

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  3. ruined conspiracy by hort_wort · · Score: 4, Funny

    I had a conspiracy theory that this thing was secretly completed underground. These pictures lower the chances of that being true. I'm sad. :(

    1. Re:ruined conspiracy by Chris+Burke · · Score: 4, Funny

      Dude, that's just the decoy ruin. The real SSC was built nearby, but far enough away that anyone looking for the known SSC site wouldn't see the people going in and out of the real site!

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