IceCube Telescope Takes Shape Below Antarctic Ice 165
PabloSandoval48 writes "The world's largest telescope, currently under construction more than a mile beneath the Antarctic ice, is on schedule to be completed next year, according to a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, the lead institution for a scientific project called IceCube."
N.W.A. (Score:5, Funny)
This IceCube project is part of a secret plan by the New World Alliance to take over current infrastructure.
But... (Score:4, Funny)
We don't care about the Stars on the Southern hemisphere. Those are boring. The Northern Hemisphere stars are where its at.
Who cares? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who cares? (Score:4, Funny)
Or some sort of ancient chair that shoots missiles into space.
Mythbusters-style (Score:3, Funny)
Did anybody else imagine a huge lense made of ice like they made in Mythbusters to light a fire?
Re:Aliens put it there (Score:3, Funny)
Close, they're just digging for the other Stargate and the chair.
Re:Not a telescope (Score:3, Funny)
It is a telescope, just one that doesn't "see" photons
Okay, I thinkI got it.
and that you don't have to point at a target to see it.
Now you're just screwing with me.
so The chair is really still there? (Score:4, Funny)
so The chair is really still there?
IceCube telescope (Score:3, Funny)
Re:N.W.A. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:N.W.A. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Interesting... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:World's largest, eh? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:N.W.A. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:N.W.A. (Score:1, Funny)
Let's not forget that NWA's debut album Straight Outta Compton [wikipedia.org] was launched shortly before the orbiting Compton Gamma Ray Observatory [wikipedia.org]. Just what did come out of Compton? I suspect we shall never find out.
Ice Cube? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:IceCube? (Score:1, Funny)
No, no... this is the all-new Ice Cube System! Of course, it also includes all the Zorg "Oldies but Goldies," like the rocket launcher, net launcher, and flamethrower.
Re:In the distant future (Score:3, Funny)
Well, it will be quite apparent that it is our ill-advised polar ice-cap melting apparatus, which was ultimately the cause of our downfall.