General Discussion

in the late 80's the superconducting supercollider was going to be built just south of Dallas. It would have provided thousands of really good jobs, as well as the cutting edge scientific knowledge that it would produce. Previously it would have been a no-brainer for Texas politicians, or politicians anywhere, to support such an amazing project in their own backyard. There are many reasons why it failed but the most shocking reason to me was that the Republican politicians, locally and state wide, refused to support it.