TIL that America was once constructing a Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) that would have dwarfed the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It now sits abandoned in the Texas prairie.

http://www.sobify.com/abandoned-architecture-desertron-super-collider-texas/



Submitted February 13, 2015 at 05:41PM by tiptoptap35 http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2vrbui/til_that_america_was_once_constructing_a/