Adventures in the World of Dreams and Seems

From the World of Dreams and Seems (as in, seems we could do this, if we really wanted to):

What if Utah was so ambitious about technological advancements that it made it a matter of competition?

If Detroit made an automobile, Utah would turn around and make its own. If someone in Illinois discovered a new particle, then Utah would say, Well if it takes an energy collider to make such discoveries, then let's get one, so we will be in position to make such advancements.

Prompting me, as I'm a typin' this, to do this wondering, is this article,

Tevatron Experiment Could Send Particle Physicists Back to the Drawing Board, which does, indeed, talk about an energy collider and the discovery (if it should be confirmed) of a new and offbeat particle. Now, toward the bottom of the article, it says the Tevatron energy collider is soon to be retired, a new and even better energy collider now being in existence. Does that means the nation can only afford one energy collider? Or does it means anything Tevatron can do, the new, improved energy collider can do even better, so why have two? I don't know.

But, whilst reading the Internet piece, I found myself thinking in terms of Utah being at the forefront of so much -- of being there in everything from heart science to immigration.

And, it doesn't seem such a bad thing to seek to be the leader.

Nor, a bad thing to have a competitive spirit. If something is done in Illinois, let's do it here, also -- only better, if we can. Sometimes, it won't be economically feasible, but at least let's mull over the possibility.

Now, if this means we back up, and start manufacturing cars and trucks (among so many other things), so be it. Too ambitious? I rather suspect nothing negative would come of our manufacturing cars and trucks. In the World of Dreams and Seems, it seems it would spark our economy, adding jobs and GSP (gross state product).

He who never seeks, never finds,
And, he who never aspires, never climbs.
Or, we could say
It another way.
The man who sits in the dust of others
Is the same who shivers under the covers.
So, shake of the dust,
And do what you must.
Turn up the heat in the old furnace place.
And, get out of bed, and enter the race.