OG wrote:

But the SSC would have cost as much as the ISS. LHC benefitted from
- an existing hole in the ground

Digging the hole would have been the cheap part.

- not being paid by USA taxpayers

Bzzzzt! The LHC has received at least $531 million in U.S. taxpayer
funding to date.

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

Hubble does things other than serve as a telescope? Focuses starlight
to cook hot dogs, perhaps?

Anyway, this is moot. The American people don't need no stinkin'
accelerators or space telescopes to tell them about the Universe.
Everything they need to know is in the first chapter of Genesis.

Davoud

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