dirktiede ([info]dirktiede) wrote,
@ 2007-12-19 11:34:00
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Holy crap. They're going to kill Fermilab!
From my friend Bill ([info]beamjockey):

The budget that's just passed the Senate is basically going to kill Fermilab:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-fermi_19dec19,1,2424810.story

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=98163&src=5

http://www.kcchronicle.com/articles/2007/12/19/news/local/doc4768b6d4e621b933264204.txt

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/beaconnews/news/703900,2_1_AU19_FERMI_S1.article

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/1218/1

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/12/us-budget-spell.html

They're facing closing the lab for at least two months in the new year (sending everyone home with no pay), and killing off the two project proposals that might keep the lab alive after the Tevatron shuts down in 2010.

This is a terrible day for science in this country.


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[info]marvelouspatric
2007-12-19 06:18 pm UTC (link)
you do realize that's just god smiting science, as he should, right?

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Payback
(Anonymous)
2007-12-19 07:53 pm UTC (link)
Pelosi (DEM-Calif) replaces Hastert (REP-IL) --so, it's political
payback. SLAC (Calif) is cut--but not nearly as much as
Fermilab. Interestingly, almost all the Physicists at Fermilab
are rabid Democrats !!!!

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[info]aimee_darling
2007-12-20 03:49 am UTC (link)
Closing Fermilab stinks. You would think someone would have a use for a particle accelerator.

Edited at 2007-12-20 03:51 am UTC

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