[dylan604]

As a high school kid taking physics, we got to tour the Superconducting Super Collider campus. Obviously, this was nothing compared to being next to something that was actually built and did science, but they had a the various instruments and segments the beam tube with the magnets on display. Some students would intern there during the summer. The plug was pulled by Congress before I could apply. That was my introduction to politics in science where the kid like notions of how things worked were shattered.

[adastra22]

You can still tour the SSC. Just requires wire cutters and a bit more spelunking.

[amarant]

Damn that sounds fun! How big a risk of being shot would I be running if I tried this?

[adastra22]

A non-negligible risk. More likely to get lost and drown. I wouldn't do it. But you can read about it:

https://medium.com/@liboski/the-superconducting-super-collid...

https://weburbanist.com/2014/09/11/the-desertron-worlds-larg...

[myself248]

Having spent some time as a cellular tech in Detroit, scrambling up half-wrecked stairwells in long-abandoned buildings to service the radio equipment still running on the roof, those accounts make it sound downright tame. I'd visit in a heartbeat next time I'm in DFW.

The landscape is so spacious, I hesitate to call it urb-ex. Rur-ex?

[adastra22]

Those are the above ground structures. If you want to see the SSC, that is in deep underground flooded tunnels.

[dylan604]

Some of the tunnel property has been sold and converted to what one might call a bunker.