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I wish that would happen, the SSC design is even more powerful than LHC. But not sure Texas is culturally the optimal place for such high science these days. Part of the opposition to SSC back in the day was religious. CA or NV might be better.

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They might give physicists a hard time, yeah.

  http://rmitz.org/freebsd.daemon.html

It seems like the SSC was located there as more of a congressional boondogle than serious science?

It's impossible to copy and paste that link on mobile Safari fwiw, fixed width scroll area.

Sorry... http://rmitz.org/freebsd.daemon.html

As long as you buy your project's land outright and don't try and take it via eminent domain, you're good.

https://www.texastribune.org/2017/02/23/come-and-take-it-emi...

PS - part of the opposition to the LHC also was religious. Remember people objecting to humanity deliberately searching for the “God Particle”, aka Higgs Boson, which the LHC was specifically designed to find? Probably not the best word choice on the part of the scientific community, unless they were deliberately trying to troll the 20-30% of the population that treats religion literally. There were similar undercurrents reaching all the way up to Congress during the SSC’s life.

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