why america no longer funds world beating research is a level of mortgaging our future for political gain that is simply inhuman.
LHC: we proposed to build this in texas in the early 1990s. congress refused to fund it. if we had, physics would be ahead by about a decade and it would again be the USA at the top of a scientific field.
We functionally give up on fusion research: because congress refuses to fund it.
We stop the manned spaceflight program: because congress refuses to fund it. because NASA also does research on climate change, and we can't have that happen, nope nope nope.
FUCK THIS. instead, for political reasons, we build a space station that really from a scientific perspective was a total waste of time and money. and we think invading and killing brown people's countries is a better use of time and money than world beating research that would turn the middle east BACK into the worthless hell hole it is.
all because congress is a bunch of worthless short sighted morons who would sell out the future of this country, because they hate government so much, they want to drown it in a bathtub.
NOPE
FUCK YAH ALL: SCIENCE WINS
science is the economy of tomorrow.