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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Addiction is a scary thing

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldM to memes@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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    Yep, that was when the US jumped the shark. It was the exact moment, Oct 20, 1993, we went “fuck science, we’re only doing short term profits now.”

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      This would have created a strong science hub and community in Texas, a real reason for the state to be proud of itself, looking towards the future like it did in the 1960s, and that was due to the Democrats with LBJ.
      Now instead, they got assault rifle-totin’, shit-kicking knuckle-draggers for life, as the whole place builds up inertia sinking into a festering swamp of its’ own ignorance.

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        yeah, would be interesting to see the alternate universe where it was finished and built…

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          There would have been t-shirts
          EVERYTHING’S BIGGER IN TEXAS
          INCLUDING SUPERCOLLIDERS

          Would we have never heard the end of republicans bitching and whining about the cost and “our taxpayer dollars” and all that idiocy?

          Who knows, considering Texan lawmakers carry an outsized weight in the republican party, and this project meant thousands upon thousands of skilled, high-paying jobs, including creating large new communities populated by scientists from all over the world.

          Then after beating CERN to the punch to first detect the Higgs Boson, they would have draped themselves in the flag while chanting USA, USA, USA…

          But ignorance and myopia are the horses pulling the republican cart.

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            gotta love politics, only the most interesting of all the boring fields put together!

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        We fucked, we need 60s back (with all the mindset).

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      As one might guess, the republicans canceled it

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        By accident, which is just straight-up embarrassing. They voted the wrong way by accident and then never fixed it.

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          Really?!

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            https://youtu.be/40YIIaF1qiw

            Sometime after the 30 minute mark NDT bitches about it.

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          Haven’t heard of that but i definitely saw debate with R congressman saying basically “why should US pay for it let’s let Europe pay for it”

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        Na. It was a joint effort on both sides of the issue.

        “An unusual coalition, cutting across party and ideological lines, joined the revolt. A total of 166 Democrats, 115 Republicans and one independent voted to stop work on the collider, while 98 Democrats and 61 Republicans voted for the project.”

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      well i mean to be fair, it was also on a really big boon of massive military spending, and the debt was a significant problem, plus this was like a fucking massive collider for the time, and probably even now.

      The sheer cost alone of it i think was like 20 billion dollars near the tail end of development, not to mention they had basically redesigned the entire fucking thing by that point since they had dropped an entire team. It was a fucking mess.

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        Right! Think of those quarters’ balance sheets!

        Scientific progress? Peoples bonuses were on the line

        Edit: it’s good that our government protected America and left innovation to Europe

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          yeah unfortunately the public and government just weren’t very perceptive to a massive scientific project which would almost certainly many times overrun the budget outlined for it. Socioeconomics are hard…

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      https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

      It only took a couple decades for that whole greedy evil movement to dictate such big decisions.

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        Stairway to Heaven?

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        The Apollo 14 moon landing?

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