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Alan Alda on Art and Science
- melling 11y agoWe don't have the US Supercollider in Texas today because scientists don't know how to sell. It would have been bigger than CERN's Large Hadron Collider and finished almost 20 years earlier. There's a video somewhere from the early 90's where a US Senator or Congressman is explaining that he sees no value in the project and no scientist can explain the practical value. The public only wants to fund science that will have direct results in the very near future.