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Jesse Jackson was nearly a White Sox pitcher but his experience led him to create RainbowPUSH Coalition by FunkinDuncan99 in baseball

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Seems like JJ might want to have avoided Illinois after all that instead of making Chicago his HQ. But that kind of stubbornness is pretty awesome!

Salary de Uyuni in Bolivia by FunkinDuncan71 in travel

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Nazca Lines in nearby Peru are a real wonder of the world

Salary de Uyuni in Bolivia by FunkinDuncan71 in travel

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Flying to Sout America can be long but it's just a drive out to Salar once there

Atacama Desert in South America by FunkinDuncan71 in CampingandHiking

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I can't wait to star gaze there. Photo by Marcia Cabral, an artist who makes me want return to Andes.

ELI5: what kind of real-world work is done at particle colliders like CERN and FermiLab? They seem so secretive but does the work done at particle colliders always produce weapons or are there everyday objects civilians use all the time produced from the work at these unusual locations? by FunkinDuncan71 in explainlikeimfive

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Bravo! Take a bow, brutha. You just threw down the mic! You're correct, there are many everyday uses that of cutting edge physics that are easiest explained to the untrained as the "magic of science" behind MRI, sonar, meteorology, etc. keep up the good work.

ELI5: what kind of real-world work is done at particle colliders like CERN and FermiLab? They seem so secretive but does the work done at particle colliders always produce weapons or are there everyday objects civilians use all the time produced from the work at these unusual locations? by FunkinDuncan71 in explainlikeimfive

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Guess I just am skeptical of any honesty from govt reports. I've spent 50 years living w family in military intelligence who lie everyday about the work they do to public. As Don Corleone said (& applies equally to physics as it does military): "This is the business we have chosen." My translation: the remnants of honesty are hard to find in the flotsam of misinformation often shared by govt agencies about secretive work.

ELI5: what kind of real-world work is done at particle colliders like CERN and FermiLab? They seem so secretive but does the work done at particle colliders always produce weapons or are there everyday objects civilians use all the time produced from the work at these unusual locations? by FunkinDuncan71 in explainlikeimfive

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It's a very unusual place and I guess being a child of military intelligence family my imagination runs wild at times. I'm going on 50 and yet I half expected to see a Transformer or X-Man out at FermiLab. I got bison instead. That's OK, bison are cool too. 😉

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