He’s replicating a cutting edge material science in his garage. People are celebrating the optimistic spirit of Americans. The indomitable will that this country encourages and the sense that anything is possible if you’re ambitious and smart enough to pull it off.
(a) it's an industrial lab.
(b) if there's any optimism to be commended, it's that of the South Korean researchers who worked on this on-off for ~20 years.
(A) It’s a metal garage that has some industrial equipment in it. There’s literally a motorcycle parked in it.
(B) The Koreans will rightly get their Nobel if this pans out. But what McCalip has done could never happen in a place like, say, Europe. The people there just don’t have the fortitude (those that do come here!) for this kind of thing. America is rich with ambition and creating the future. Other places had their time and are just fossilized remains now. But fun to tour, especially when the people there dress up like their glorious ancestors that made them famous did. It’s fun to look at the past sometimes (but obviously not live in it!).
