The SSC site is still hanging around, http://www.hep.net/ssc/new/pictures.html

From what I remember reading, various portions of SSC are now located over at CERN, as part of the LHC. Stuff like Cryogenics plants and the like.

Back to the question of LHC at CERN.

One of two things will happen shortly after the beam is turned on and the first collision occurs. Higgs Boson will be proven to exist, the experiment, now a complete success will, will be shut down and thousands of scientists, technologists and technicians and support staff will become unemployed.
Or, someone will come running into the control room screaming, "It's gone, It's gone!", as it will have winked out of existence.

Apparently, Dan Brown author of "The DaVinci Code", also wrote a book entitled "Angels and Demons", which Hollywood is now converting into a movie. The studio doing the movie was in CERN a while ago, taking high resolution pictures of ATLAS before it and the rest of LHC was buttoned up for the cool-down. The pictures will serve to provide realistic pattern matching for the movies animations.

;-)

To the very original author of this thread, "Don't worry, be happy",
"Everything's gonna be all-right."

Really, if you are concerned about LHC, go to CERNs web site and read about the LHC. They have huge quantities of documents describing the science, the machine, the construction, the commissioning and more. I spent days reading and watching movies and looking at pictures and trying to wrap my head around it all. I am pumped and I am excited and for the past three years, LHC has been a daily look for me. Great science is around the corner.

Regards, rtt