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15 Oversized Things That Are Completely Useless

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
August 15, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Sun, 08/15/2010 - 06:05
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Largest thermometer that does no thermometing, largest shopping cart and even the largest ... particle collider.   Though at least we hope that last one will do something meaningful.

It's all here in the 15 most useless huge things.

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