George Bush vomited & set Physics back by a decade

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All it takes it one upset stomach to change the course of history. This is a story about the greatest failure in American physics: The Superconducting Super Collider. Part 2 of 3. Part 1: https://youtu.be/ivVzGpznw1U Part 3: https://youtu.be/15zHLXvFUs0 The primary source on all things SSC is the book "Tunnel Visions", which I used as a blueprint to map out the series. Many of the quotes are taken from that book, which used primary interviews and are sourced very extensively. Stuff involving budgets and congress I accessed from the official government websites, including votes on bills and amendments, and inflation calculations were done by myself using an online tool. There are a bunch of other documents I read through such as "The Global Research and Development Landscape and Implications for the Department of Defense", "A TIMELINE OF MAJOR PARTICLE ACCELERATORS", "United States nuclear forces, 2019", "High Energy Physics Advisory Panel's Subpanel on Vision for the Future of High-Energy Physics May 1994", "The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity and International Spillovers", "Accessory to War by Neil DeGrasse Tyson", "The Mission by David W Brown", "The God Particle (The Higgs boson) by Leon Lederman". My Twitter and Patreon: https://twitter.com/bobbybroccole https://www.patreon.com/bobbybroccoli Thumbnail assistance from @Hotcyder 0:00 Call me Tex 11:05 The Revolving Door 18:39 All Hands on Deck 30:18 The Three Pronged Attack 46:53 Burning Bridges, Mending Fences 59:20 Swords Drawn Tryst by REPULSIVE All other music by @WhiteBatAudio: Alliance Moonlight Endless Night The Drop Agent Cooper The Heist Last Stop Empty City New Beginnings Sentimental Mysterious Green Fluid Sycophant Virtual Death Lucid Dream Echoes Crash Site Night of the Creeps Dangerous