[motohagiography]

Was confused as well, and thought what an interesting idea, to do advanced research in he middle of nowhere like that. New Brunswick Canada doesn’t figure in the popular imagination at all other than as the family fief of an industrial fortune, like if the Waltons operated Arkansas as a kingdom. Why not build an Arcadian research campus that far from everywhere?

Take some equity in the results to fund it, do some skunkworks projects, keep it out of the press and politics and away from bureaucracy. Sounds ideal.

[disillusioned]

On the public side of things, this essentially describes the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which was itself born out of the Hanford Site and its attendant plutonium-specific Manhattan Project-related research needs... took a town of 300 people which ballooned up to 25,000, essentially operating as an Army town in service of the Manhattan Project.

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It's a good place to watch the aurora from, apparently!