On Sep 10, 7:15*pm, "OG" wrote:
"Rich" wrote in message

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They could have built 4 colliders for the same cost as the white
elephant in space. Hey Americans, remember the Superconducting
Supercollider? *Too bad you abandoned it to the prairie dogs.

But the SSC would have cost as much as the ISS. *LHC benefitted from
- an existing hole in the ground
- not being paid by USA taxpayers

ISS does other things. Just like Hubble does other things.

That's what I love. Whenever the subject of specific work or (gasp!)
results comes up in conjunction with talk of the ISS, all of a sudden
the vagueness becomes apparent.