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borism on Aug 31, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: RIP Higgs Boson (with 95% confidence)

Funny, cause if the Spanish crown didn't fund Columbuses search for alternative route to East-Indies, we wouldn't be talking about American science right now.

wlievens on Aug 31, 2011 [–]

Really? So that huge continent on the other side of the Atlantic would have remained undiscovered for five hundred more years?

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