Davoud wrote:
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.

And they did start digging the hole, but then the politicians pulled the
plug, probably because the SSC wasn't sexy enough to the public.

- 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.

Yup, Palin says so. If she gets in as VP, with the chance that McCain
will leave office for medical reasons before he completes his first term
at 1 out of 3 odds by some accounts, then God literally help us.

--- Dave

Davoud