Steven Weinberg, screwed again

The Nobel-prize-winning physicist and bestselling author might be the heir to Richard Feynman, but can the guy catch a break here people?

He was one of the most vocal supporters of the Superconducting Supercollider, that big, bad Texan atom smasher that, had it been built, would have made the LHC look like its prison bitch.

We all know how THAT turned out.

Well, thanks to NASA, Weinberg must have deja vu these days. Read on.

NASA just admitted that it's never going to send its $1.5-billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer up to the International Space Station like it promised. From the Times:

“It’s a pity that NASA is living up to its commitment to finish the Space Station, but not to its commitment to use it for something scientifically interesting,” said Steven Weinberg, himself a Nobel physicist at the University of Texas, in Austin.

Ironical fun factoid-- Congress pulled the plug on the SSC back in 1993 to shift funding to... wait for it...

... the International Space Station.

If only Ashton Kutcher were waiting just off-camera. But he ain't.