We don't have the US Supercollider in Texas today because scientists don't know how to sell. It would have been bigger than CERN's Large Hadron Collider and finished almost 20 years earlier.<p>There's a video somewhere from the early 90's where a US Senator or Congressman is explaining that he sees no value in the project and no scientist can explain the practical value.<p>The public only wants to fund science that will have direct results in the very near future.