Sciencey things just don't have the excitement they used to have. Looking at data and doing statistical analyses just isn't the same as:
![[Image: 640px-Trinity_shot_color.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=upload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F8%2F8d%2FTrinity_shot_color.jpg%2F640px-Trinity_shot_color.jpg)
Trinity test (first atomic bomb test).
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![[Image: 640px-Apollo_11_CSM_photographed_from_Lu...445%29.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=upload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F2%2F25%2FApollo_11_CSM_photographed_from_Lunar_Module_%2528AS11-37-5445%2529.jpg%2F640px-Apollo_11_CSM_photographed_from_Lunar_Module_%2528AS11-37-5445%2529.jpg)
Both of the above are from Apollo 11, the first landing on the moon.
Your little toy doesn't seem to have the same destructive capabilities of things in the past. How many people have been killed with the LHC? If it could vaporize a city, then you would have something!
That is probably why we Americans changed our minds about our own little toy, as what is the point if there is not a lot of fire and explosions going on? Advancing knowledge, you say? Pfffffft. When you figure out how to use that knowledge to blow something up, then give us a call.
![[Image: 640px-Trinity_shot_color.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=upload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F8%2F8d%2FTrinity_shot_color.jpg%2F640px-Trinity_shot_color.jpg)
Trinity test (first atomic bomb test).
![[Image: 640px-Ksc-69pc-442.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=upload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fe%2Fef%2FKsc-69pc-442.jpg%2F640px-Ksc-69pc-442.jpg)
![[Image: 640px-Apollo_11_CSM_photographed_from_Lu...445%29.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=upload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F2%2F25%2FApollo_11_CSM_photographed_from_Lunar_Module_%2528AS11-37-5445%2529.jpg%2F640px-Apollo_11_CSM_photographed_from_Lunar_Module_%2528AS11-37-5445%2529.jpg)
Both of the above are from Apollo 11, the first landing on the moon.
Your little toy doesn't seem to have the same destructive capabilities of things in the past. How many people have been killed with the LHC? If it could vaporize a city, then you would have something!
That is probably why we Americans changed our minds about our own little toy, as what is the point if there is not a lot of fire and explosions going on? Advancing knowledge, you say? Pfffffft. When you figure out how to use that knowledge to blow something up, then give us a call.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.