Re: Fears that Supercollider may destroy the Earth. (MSNBC)

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 Dillon Pyron <invaliddmpyron@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> [Default] Thus spake "Eva" <eva1removethis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
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> >"Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> ><snip>
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> >> -- Ken from Chicago (who notes a supercollider is basically a giant 
> >> circle)
> >
> >Basically.
> >
> >Eva
> 
> Had the US not screwed the pooch many years ago, we would already have
> done this in the US.  There are several dozen deep holes in the Texas
> prarie near Hillsboro that were dug for the Superconducting Super
> Collider.

There aren't just holes. They actually built most of the circular tunnel 
ring. When the project was canceled, I always thought they should have 
used the existing tunnel as a prison. It could have housed hundreds of 
thousands of inmates.