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SuperK Neutrino Detector Severely Damaged.
Eric Sharkey writes "The Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector, which announced the discovery of neutrino oscillation and mass in 1998 (covered by Slashdot at the time), has been severely damaged. The NY Times (free reg, blah blah) has an article here. Most of the phototubes have been destroyed. Repair estimates top $30M, leaving the world far less capable of observing the next supernova neutrino burst, should it arrive before repairs or a replacement could be completed." CD: I called the lead of the project and he was in the tank checking out the damage. The webpage for the Super-Kamiokande is here. There are pictures for you to peruse.
this first post contains previously undiscovered subatomic particles
yeah this is important.
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Godzilla? FLEE! FLEE!
well its almost slashdoted, I just wanted to point that out. Plus I've been playing Civ 3 and damn is it cool. But I still like civ 2 the best, but this is a nice change
Bad spellers of the world untie!
Kind sir,
/. be free.
Please take your 'little bugger' racism elsewhere.
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what is this bull shit,i feel offened that some people feel so so senseless to post stuff like these esp when such a tragic incident has occured
Yes, it's true, they do have these abhorrences to nature.
Mind you, so does the UK.
And they all taste horrendous. (Allegedly)
I say we take off and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...
You forgot one....
#4 Super K? Is that like Sushi K
(dodges dead wombat)
It's a cultural thing. When something goes wrong, Americans look for someone to blame while the Japanese look for a solution to the problem.
christ, man, i didn't mean that to be a serious post. good work, though.
HOT GRITS
But is SuperK Open Source?
So it's racist to nutrinoes to call them "little buggers?". What about electrons and protons? Someone has to stick up for sub-atomic rights
When RIAA sued Napster, Gnutella argued invincibility because it was decentralized, and derived no benefit from the file swapping. They were playing a game of chicken when they activated central servers at all. Now, they are adding ads to the software, meaning that they gain a direct monetary benefit from the file swapping. My prediction is that we'll hear about a RIAA Limewire suit before December.
BlackGriffen
You should be ashamed. Its not nice to make fun of disadvantaged inbreds and wife-beaters.