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Antarctic Telescope Funded

Posted by chrisd on from the remote-control-please dept.

An anonymous reader writes "SpaceflightNow reports that a multi-institutional team of scientists led by the University of Chicago will receive $16.6 million from the National Science Foundation over the next five years to build a telescope at the South Pole aimed at piercing one of the darkest secrets of the universe. The telescope will help scientists to reveal new details regarding a mysterious phenomenon called dark energy, which makes the expansion of the universe accelerate."

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  1. Learn to fucking spell!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    antarCtic! Antarctic! MORONS. It's like having JeffK write all your columns! "Lunix Dosent' Cahrash!"

    1. Re:Learn to fucking spell!!! by jacoberrol · · Score: 2, Funny

      WTF is it with americans mispelling Antarctica??
      Americans should be capitalized and it's spelled "misspelling".

      Its been mentioned here a few times in the last several weeks (like that poll, etc), and it has ALWAYS been mispelt!
      "It's" is the contraction "It has" and should contain an apostrophe. Again, the word is "misspelt", not "mispelt".

      even have some american sci-fi shows and stuff here on dvd (i'm australian) and even on THERE they mispronounce Antarctica, saying it as "Antartica" just as they spell it.
      "I'm" and "Australian" should be capitalized. You got it right for Anartica though. Kudos.

      Are americans so brain dead they ALWAYS have to mispell it, and pronounce it the mispelt way too?
      ...Americans, misspell, misspelt... And by the way, "brain-dead" should be hyphenated.

      Great flame. Very effective.