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Re: RE: Super Conducting Super Collider

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From: SCOTT I CHASE
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 03:36
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In article <IeTmp1K00VpF4wsmsC@andrew.cmu.edu>, ag3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Arun K. Gupta) writes...
>Rustom Roy's point was not that he didn't care about High Energy
>Physics, but rather that no-one should care about High Energy Physics --
>that it had accomplished nothing of social value in the last 45 years;
>and that HEPers were welfare recepients in lab. coats.

Is is all of pure science that is supposed to have zero social value or 
just HEP, according to RR?  How can a physicist of all people really 
believe that?

-Scott
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Subject: Re: RE: Super Conducting Super Collider
Date: 5 Aug 92 03:36:19 GMT
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