After That Cancellation [of The Superconducting Super

What Do Oil Company Executives, Vampires And Nasa Bureaucrats All Have In Common? They Fear Solar Energy.

What Would Happen If History Could Be Rewritten As Casually As Erasing A Blackboard? Our Past Would Be Like The Shifting Sands At The Seashore, Constantly Blown This Way Or That By The Slightest Breeze. History Would Be Constantly Changing Every Time Someone Spun The Dial Of A Time Machine And Blundered His Or Her Way Into The Past. History, As We Know It, Would Be Impossible. It Would Cease To Exist.

After That Cancellation [of The Superconducting Super Collider In Texas, After $2 Billion Had Been Spent On It], We Physicists Learned That We Have To Sing For Our Supper. ... The Cold War Is Over. You Can't Simply Say "russia!" To Congress, And They Whip Out Their Checkbook And Say, "how Much?" We Have To Tell The People Why This Atom-smasher Is Going To Benefit Their Lives.

Impossible Is Relative.

I Agree, Along With Carl Sagan, That We Should Eventually Become A Two Planet Species. Life Is Too Precious To Place On A Single Planet.