Re: O/T: Supreme Court to hear Eminent Domain Case

Posted by txblu on September 30, 2004 at 05:56:50 from (199.46.199.230):

In Reply to: O/T: Supreme Court to hear Eminent Domain Case posted by Mark - IN. on September 29, 2004 at 17:52:56:

US National Laboratories (Like in Los Alamos, NM.) decides they need a new toy (at the taxpayers expense). In comes the "Super Conducting Supercollider", in Waxahachie, TX.

If you don't know what that was, it was to find Top Quarks and other sub atomic matter that the scientists had mathmethically proven to exist but hadn't effectively proven physically.

Well it was a 10' underground tunnel 54 miles in circumference that was (to be) packed with magnets cooled to 4 degrees Kelvin (bout absolute zero). Inside the magnets were (to be)a bunch of ions going in opposite directions (2 pipes) and when ready, they would "side track" them and they would smash into each other. Scientists would then "find" their missing "Quarks".

You wouldn't believe how much it was gonna cost.

Anway, they ripped up a bunch of homes on acreage, that were in the way, and put them on steel beamed wheeled dollys and just left them sit on the property for months.

Property owners that had lived there for many years had to agonize over their homes being "beheaded" so to speak and left for public exposure.

Collider crapped out but the damage was done.

However, there is a silver lining. The US taxpayer saved a ton of money in the process (for it closing). The light bill alone.....light bill....annual cost was estimated to be $200 million. That doesn't cover any thing else.

(I was employed there for 2 years; opening to closing.)

Mark

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