Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: The complex had cost the taxpayers $2 billion to that stage, > when it was cancelled. Then, in December of that year, less than six months > after investing, zillionaire Hunt slipped on a patch of ice, broke his > skull > and died - to the amazement of critics who thought that a head that hard > could not be broken. >
What a story! I did not know this. > > SS's future as a giant wormhole under Texas was thrown into > limbo, and eventually the project was shelved. Haunting photos are here - > and some kind of weird karma can be implied: > Haunting indeed. Wow. What a waste. What a shame they cannot find a use for it. The Bettmann Archive of 19 million photographs and images was sold to Bill Gates, renamed the Corbis archive, and now lives in "the Iron Mountain National Underground Storage Facility, a former limestone quarry located 220 feet (67 m) below ground in western Pennsylvania." Iron Mountain. The perfect name. It sounds like something from a James Bond movie. - Jed
