the onion 28 Sep 2007 12:33 pm
Scientists Ask Congress To Fund $50 Billion Science Thing
Scientists Ask Congress To Fund $50 Billion Science Thing | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Top physicists from several major American universities appeared before a Congressional committee Monday to request $50 billion for a science thing that would further U.S. advancement science-wise and broaden human knowing.
The scientists spoke for approximately three hours about the complicated science machine, which is expensive, and large, telling members of the House Committee on Science and Technology that the tubular, gamma-ray-using mechanism is vital in some big way. Yet the high price tag of the thing, which would be built on a 40-square-mile plot of land where the science would ultimately occur, remained a pressing question.