Posted on 03/04/2005 6:57:57 AM PST by wallcrawlr
SOUDAN, MINN. -- How long does it take to get from Chicago to Soudan?
For tiny subatomic bits called neutrinos, 2.5 milliseconds with never a weather delay. Among the smallest known particles in the universe, neutrinos can take shortcuts straight through the Earth.
Scientists hope they'll also provide a shortcut to solving some of the most intriguing mysteries of the universe.
Today, at the federal Fermilab outside Chicago, U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., and other dignitaries will dedicate a $180 million project that will involve flinging trillions of neutrinos through the Earth to a massive detector in Soudan.
The 6,000-ton detector is in a cavern a half-mile underground, at the bottom of an old iron ore mine, where the three-story instrument will be shielded from most of the cosmic interference that would overwhelm its circuitry on the surface.
Cont'd.
Said Marvin Marshak, a University of Minnesota physicist on the project: "What is really neat is that the best neutrino oscillation experiment and best dark matter search in the entire world are being done in northeastern Minnesota.
"Even better, anybody can go to Soudan during the summer, take the MINOS lab tour led by Minnesota state parks and go one-half mile underground and see exactly what scientists from all over the world are doing."
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
6,000-ton neutrino detector.
It takes a three-story, 100-foot-long device of 486 steel plates and plastic “scintillators” to detect one of the smallest subatomic particles: neutrinos. The detector built deep in the former Soudan, Minn., iron mine by University of Minnesota physicists begins full operations today.
David Brewster Star Tribune Published March 4, 2005
But can it detect Rudy Perpich's ghost ?
Maybe this will mean quicker and better popcorn.
Neutrino
------Voivod
program correction
repress resistance
recall construction
reaset dead people
repress
construct
repress
strong mind control
dark neutrino
low-frequency
false memeory
no compromise
all hope denied
planet creation
psycho transformrer
subject retention
reset dead people
construct
repress...
might as well just check the old dentist office or the capital.
Since being elected to Congress, Oberstar has done little more than make cameo's in his dristrict.
Somebody said they saw the ghost of Governor Goofy going into a coffee shop in Biwabik.
Doesn't your state have a residency requirement?
Oberman MUST "reside" in the state a minimum amount of time each year..
Otherwise he is ineligible for re-election..
Failure to meet residency requirements in any year means he is disqualified to be on the ballot in the next election..
They also conveniently omit the fact that it's Dennis Hastert who's doing the actual dedicating.
the only tie Oberstar has to the 8th is his mom house,he has not live here in what 30 odd yrs.
LOL.. sighting in Hibbing and maybe Duluth too
There is no such thing as a "residency" requirement except on the day a candidate is first elected. The late Senator Dick Clark of Iowa sold his home and property and moved permanently to the DC area when he was elected. Tom Harkin spends more time in his home in the Bahamas than he does in Iowa.
Residency requirements must be the venue of the individual states..
Missouri has one.
A certain number of days every year must be spent in the state..
Failure to do so results in ineligibility for office..
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