IceCube Neutrino Telescope

AMANDA writes: "Ice Cube is a neutrino telescope located at the south pole. It has just received the congressional support for $15 million dollars from the NSF. It will be the largest scientific instrument in the world. It promises a view into the most energetic phenomena in the universe." The idea is to use a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice as a detector. Impressive.

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Links

[Acheon]

http://www.autodynamics.org/

http://www.autodynamics.org/new99/Neutrino/SuperK. html

http://www.autodynamics.org/new99/Articles/Millenn ium/index.html

Of course, we all know why it got the funding...

[lohen]

All the research stations down in Antarctica are funded primarily because maintaining them gives their countries of origin dibs on local oil reserves etc. once the general ban on drilling down there finally gets chucked (it happened to Alaska). I'm not saying that they don't do good research there (they do) and nor am I disputing the validity of this particular project (it being a fair way out of my sphere of expertise). But it's a sad thing that all of this is really just a front - kind of like how all that NASA funding in the Cold War also helped to yield some nifty weaponry with good publicity laid on.