A Telescope In a Cubic Kilometer of Ice 118
Roland Piquepaille writes "University of Delaware (UD) scientists and engineers are currently working at the South Pole under very harsh conditions. This research team is one of the many other ones working on the construction of IceCube, the world's largest neutrino telescope in the Antarctic ice, far beneath the continent's snow-covered surface. When it is completed in 2011, the telescope array will occupy a cubic kilometer of Antarctica. One of the lead researchers said that 'IceCube will provide new information about some of the most violent and far-away astrophysical events in the cosmos.' The UD team has even opened a blog to cover this expedition. It will be opened up to December 22, 2008. I guess they want to be back in Delaware for Christmas, but read more for additional details and references, including a diagram of this telescope array built inside ice."
Does not look promising (Score:5, Funny)
Nutrinoes! (Score:2, Funny)
Bullcrap! (Score:5, Funny)
Christmas massacre (Score:0, Funny)
To be fair, the British members of the team probably don't want to be in Delaware for Christmas. Americans have a history of massacring the British on Christmas in Delaware.
Re:Does not look promising (Score:5, Funny)
Dangerous things found in Antarctica:
'The Thing' (Kurt Russel in a Cowboy hat!)
The Borg from Star Trek
Aliens v Predator
Vicious Penguins
Cool! (Score:1, Funny)
Does Ice Cube approve (Score:4, Funny)
Definitely Ice Cube http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Cube [wikipedia.org] won't like it.
Perhaps time to call in the RIAA and fix this.
South central actually... (Score:5, Funny)
Neutrino's with Attitude!
The Hardest Part (Score:5, Funny)
Ice...for now. (Score:4, Funny)
By the time it is finished, it will be in a cubic kilometer of water.
Re:Does not look promising (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bullcrap! (Score:2, Funny)
Not since he let himself go anyway.
Re:Does not look promising (Score:3, Funny)
Nobody cares about the Secret Nazi UFO bases anymore :!(
Re:Big Science (Score:3, Funny)
That's kinda like asking "Where's the IBM of marble sculpture?"
You can mass-produce ICs. If you've found a way to mass-produce large parabolic or hyperbolic wavelength-accurate mirrors, well, you should definitely submit that one to Slashdot, OK?
Re:Does Ice Cube approve (Score:3, Funny)
Ooh, the temptation to alter the wiki pages to say Ice Cube is the spokesperson for the neutrino detector is huge... Must... resist... Vandalism... bad...
Delawhere? (Score:1, Funny)
I'm from Delaware and I don't want to go back for Christmas! Even Antartica is probably a step up...
IceCube? Violence? (Score:5, Funny)
'IceCube will provide new information about some of the most violent and far-away astrophysical events in the cosmos.'
So NWA have a new album out? O.o
Re:You're gonna want ice after practicing THIS: (Score:2, Funny)
Wait...
Oh my god...
*holds self*
Re:Ice...for now. (Score:3, Funny)
On ice.
Re:Does not look promising (Score:3, Funny)
You Black Mesa hotshots get all the fat government contracts. Just you wait til we get GLaDOS out of beta (although, it's been in beta so long you'd think we were Google).
Beware of Deep Ones (Score:3, Funny)
A word of advice: If you wake any squid-headed star-spawned monstrosity deep beneath the mountains of madness, run.