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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. Re:Great thinking. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, instead of the project being an over budget waste, they canned it so it could be a complete waste with no return. Brilliant.

    See: Sunk Costs

    Also, this thing was turning into a white elephant - between mismanagement by the physicists and cost over-runs (gee, from Government contractors?!? No way!) this was going to turn into a huge money pit. Anyway, the Europeans did it better