ramblings

This is from Dude, regarding the possibility of creating a black hole with with the LHC. I agree:

This supercollider is the one that **was** going to be built in Waxahachie, Texas before he Republican Congress dubbed the “Republican Revolution” came into power in 1994.  This work *could* have been done in the United States.  Instead, we have outsourced our place as the leader of innovation and cutting-edge science to other countries that do not spend over half of their annual budget on making military contractors rich.  Furthermore, Jesse’s knee-jerk reaction to condemn science is so typical among Americans these days that we now have a country in which the majority of people (a) think its a good idea to teach the Bible in public schools, (b) think that Creationism should be taught in science class, and (c) deny that Global Warming is even happening despite the mountains of evidence.  where did my country develop this irrational fear of science????  and what’s so crazy is that they are not scared of science that they *should* be scared of such as genetic modification of food and so-called “clean coal” power plants.