The $21,000,000,000 hole in Texas

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So there's this hole in Texas...This is a story about the greatest failure in American physics: The Superconducting Super Collider. This video is a super-sized compilation of all three parts of America's Missing Collider, from the Ronald Reagan era, to George Bush Sr., to Bill Clinton. You can also watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/bobbybroccoli-the-21000000000-hole-in-texas My Twitter and Patreon: https://twitter.com/bobbybroccole https://www.patreon.com/bobbybroccoli Thumbnail created by @ChipmunkuChan The primary source on all things SSC is the fantastic book "Tunnel Visions", which I used as a blueprint to map out the series. Details involving budgets and congressional votes I accessed from the official government websites, and inflation calculations were done by myself using an online tool. There are a bunch of other documents I read through such as "The Global Research and Development Landscape and Implications for the Department of Defense", "A TIMELINE OF MAJOR PARTICLE ACCELERATORS", "United States nuclear forces, 2019", "High Energy Physics Advisory Panel's Subpanel on Vision for the Future of High-Energy Physics May 1994", "The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity and International Spillovers", "Accessory to War by Neil DeGrasse Tyson", "The Mission" by David W Brown, "The God Particle (The Higgs boson) by Leon Lederman". Music by @WhiteBatAudio unless otherwise noted: Part 1: Brave New World Endless Night Home Arcadia Rain City Forgotten Planet Edge of Tomorrow Night Crawler Black Rainbows Empty City The Drop Virtual Death Prince of Darkness Astral Projection Afterglow Hackers Part 2: Tryst by @REPULSIVE Alliance Moonlight Endless Night The Drop Agent Cooper The Heist Last Stop Empty City New Beginnings Sentimental Mysterious Green Fluid Sycophant Virtual Death Lucid Dream Echoes Crash Site Night of the Creeps Dangerous Part 3: Fortress Europe by Futuremono Akanes Regret by @REPULSIVE Dangerous Miami Sky The Showdown The Night Dweller Slasher The Guardian The Traveler Nightscapes Melt Credits song: Hard Times Come Again No More by the Westerlies 0:00 Part 1: Reagan 1:02:52 Part 2: Bush 2:13:06 Part 3: Clinton