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IceCube Telescope Takes Shape Below Antarctic Ice

Posted by timothy on from the hard-mile-to-walk dept.

PabloSandoval48 writes "The world's largest telescope, currently under construction more than a mile beneath the Antarctic ice, is on schedule to be completed next year, according to a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, the lead institution for a scientific project called IceCube."

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  1. N.W.A. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This IceCube project is part of a secret plan by the New World Alliance to take over current infrastructure.

    1. Re:N.W.A. by elrous0 · · Score: 3, Funny

      You are now about to witness the strength of scientific knowledge...

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    2. Re:N.W.A. by Conchobair · · Score: 2, Funny

      I hear they have top doctors working on an easy plan to use yellow fever to infect humans via wild wrens. Leaving us nothing but doggs and bones with little to eat but M&Ms wishing we were an exibit on deathrow in the aftermath.

    3. Re:N.W.A. by Chowderbags · · Score: 2, Funny

      And he's already committed crimes against humanity! Like "Are We There Yet?",and just when you thought it was bad, he made a sequel! This man must be stopped, perhaps by putting him someplace really cold, in fact I hear there's a continent if you go really far south that's just covered in ice...

    4. Re:N.W.A. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Let's not forget that NWA's debut album Straight Outta Compton was launched shortly before the orbiting Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. Just what did come out of Compton? I suspect we shall never find out.

  2. But... by jellomizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    We don't care about the Stars on the Southern hemisphere. Those are boring. The Northern Hemisphere stars are where its at.

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  3. Who cares? by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 4, Funny

    Call me when they find Megatron.

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    1. Re:Who cares? by CarpetShark · · Score: 3, Funny

      Or some sort of ancient chair that shoots missiles into space.

  4. Mythbusters-style by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did anybody else imagine a huge lense made of ice like they made in Mythbusters to light a fire?

  5. Re:Aliens put it there by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Close, they're just digging for the other Stargate and the chair.

  6. Re:Not a telescope by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is a telescope, just one that doesn't "see" photons

    Okay, I thinkI got it.

    and that you don't have to point at a target to see it.

    Now you're just screwing with me.

  7. so The chair is really still there? by Joe+The+Dragon · · Score: 3, Funny

    so The chair is really still there?

  8. IceCube telescope by elrous0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Straight outta Antarctica?

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  9. Re:Interesting... by Intron · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess this is a bad time to mention the Giant Strobe Light Project that we're doing in the Antartic ice sheet.

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  10. Re:World's largest, eh? by ekgringo · · Score: 2, Funny

    You don't happen to work for NASA by any chance, do you?

  11. Ice Cube? by PPH · · Score: 2, Funny

    Personally, I welcome our hip hop astronomer overlords.

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  12. Re:IceCube? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, no... this is the all-new Ice Cube System! Of course, it also includes all the Zorg "Oldies but Goldies," like the rocket launcher, net launcher, and flamethrower.

  13. Re:In the distant future by Bigjeff5 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, it will be quite apparent that it is our ill-advised polar ice-cap melting apparatus, which was ultimately the cause of our downfall.

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