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Saw a recent documentary "Independent Lens" that was about the Fermi Lab. Said it had lost funding a while ago. Good to hear it didn't completely shut down.
by weegee 18y ago
Saw a recent documentary "Independent Lens" that was about the Fermi Lab. Said it had lost funding a while ago. Good to hear it didn't completely shut down.
- pasbesoin 18y agoThere was a last minute, partial rescue of funding, which had as at least one focus a personal contribution in the millions of dollars (5MM, I seem to recall?). Compared to the Federal budget, the amounts involved weren't even the husk on a discarded peanut. Penny wise, pound foolish.
- lnguyen 18y agoI remember when the funding for the SSC got pulled. Had actually been to Waxahachie shortly after they started digging and was doing a summer internship at Fermilab. Everyone was fighting to get it funded and built in their backyard but as soon an actual site was decided, it suddenly became a boondoggle, pork, or what have you by those very same people.