Excerpt: The Texas Superconducting Super Collider would have dwarfed CERN’s LHC, according to reports. It was designed as an enormous underground ring complex situated close to Waxahachie and had it been allowed to go forward, would have been considered the most energetic particle accelerator in the world. The project’s construction commenced in the early ‘90s, but only 14 miles of tunnel were bored-out prior to the sunsetting of the whole thing.

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      11 months ago

      The most stereotypical looking Texan businessmen possible bought it to turn into a data storage center.

      Then he slipped on some ice and died.

      Currently is owned by Univar Solutions, a chemical manufacturing and packaging company, which is a less exciting ending.