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One of the World's Biggest Telescopes Is Buried Beneath the South Pole
FoxNews.com ^
| December 17, 2010
| Blake Snow
Posted on 12/17/2010 4:04:40 PM PST by ColdOne
Like exploding stars, black holes, dark matter? How about cosmic intrigue, deep space astronomy , or origins of the universe?
Then youre gonna love this.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin are putting the finishing touches on a giant underground telescope buried beneath the South Pole to help understand said phenomenon.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: antarctic; antarctica; astronomy; electronneutrino; fourthneutrino; muonneutrino; neutrino; neutrinodetector; neutrinos; sterileneutrino; stringtheory; tauneutrino; telescope; telescopes
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posted on
12/17/2010 4:04:42 PM PST
by
ColdOne
To: ColdOne
The South Pole explorers of the past would be amazed.
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posted on
12/17/2010 4:12:51 PM PST
by
Ciexyz
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
12/17/2010 4:16:22 PM PST
by
ColdOne
(:*))) MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU!!!!!)
To: ColdOne
Thanks for posting the article.
Very interesting subject.
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posted on
12/17/2010 4:26:05 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: ColdOne
The “planet x” people have been referring to this thing as a sort of “conspiracy” to build this to watch a “cataclysmic” event headed toward earth from our “blind side” (directly south).
:)
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posted on
12/17/2010 4:28:35 PM PST
by
RobRoy
(The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
To: ColdOne
How is this being paid for?
Last I heard the treasury is broke.
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posted on
12/17/2010 4:29:12 PM PST
by
DariusBane
(People are like sheep and have two speeds: grazing and stampede)
To: ColdOne
Cool. Thanks for posting.
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posted on
12/17/2010 4:29:59 PM PST
by
BunnySlippers
(I love BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: ColdOne
One of the World's Biggest Telescopes Is Buried Beneath the South Pole
By Blake Snow
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posted on
12/17/2010 4:35:31 PM PST
by
mikrofon
(What consistency is that?)
To: ColdOne
An aerial view of the South Pole with the South Pole Station to the left of the runway and IceCube to the right.
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posted on
12/17/2010 4:38:38 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: ColdOne
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posted on
12/17/2010 4:41:35 PM PST
by
Vendome
To: ColdOne
From deep within the ice, the telescope will observe the full sky, both northern and southern hemispheres simultaneously all the time, Halzen told FoxNews.com. We do not have to point the telescope.
Huh? How’s that supposed to work? Doesn’t sound like a ‘telescope’ to me.
11
posted on
12/17/2010 4:42:20 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
(Do all the talking you want, but do what I tell you.)
To: ColdOne
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posted on
12/17/2010 4:46:19 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
(Do all the talking you want, but do what I tell you.)
To: smokingfrog
From deep within the ice, the telescope will observe the full sky, both northern and southern hemispheres simultaneously all the time They also have a massive geothermally-heated underground mushroom patch.
They can see any damn thing they want.
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posted on
12/17/2010 4:46:19 PM PST
by
humblegunner
(Blogger Overlord)
To: ColdOne
Unless I’m mistaken, netrinos are theoretical particles which never have been observed in nature? Neutrinos, if they exist, are so elusive they mostly are hoping one passes straight through Earth from North to South Pole, and happens to register on one of these sensors.
This “telescope” will see almost nothing and may see nothing at all, ever.
I don’t think the article explains this very clearly.
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posted on
12/17/2010 4:49:20 PM PST
by
Williams
(It's the policies, stupid.)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
12/17/2010 4:51:01 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
(Do all the talking you want, but do what I tell you.)
To: Williams
NEUTRINO TRAP is a tank filled with 100,000 gallons of a common cleaning fluid, tetrachloroethylene. It is located in a rock cavity 4,850 feet below the surface in the Homestake Mine in the town of Lead, S.D. The experiment is being run by Raymond Davis, Jr., Kenneth C. Hoffman and Don S. Harmer of Brookhaven National Laboratory. Suggested in 1964 by Davis and the author, the experiment was begun last year. The first results showed that the sun's output of neutrinos from the isotope boron 8 was less than expected.
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posted on
12/17/2010 4:54:35 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
(Do all the talking you want, but do what I tell you.)
To: JoeProBono
I guess that view is facing umm North?
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posted on
12/17/2010 5:01:10 PM PST
by
Jolla
To: JoeProBono
I’ve always been amazed that people on the South Pole do not fall off the Earth.
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posted on
12/17/2010 5:02:31 PM PST
by
353FMG
To: JoeProBono; ColdOne
I found this site fascinating:
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
Decades of construction site weather issues pale in comparison to life and work in one of the most inhospitable sites.
Amazing accomplishment.
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posted on
12/17/2010 5:02:46 PM PST
by
PhilDragoo
(Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
To: UCANSEE2
Agreed. The depth and breatch of human scientific inquiry is just incredible.
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posted on
12/17/2010 5:07:37 PM PST
by
bigbob
(.)
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