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IceCube Telescope Takes Shape Below Antarctic Ice
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."
This IceCube project is part of a secret plan by the New World Alliance to take over current infrastructure.
IceCube is a neutrino telescope which looks through the Earth to the Northern Hemisphere. The Earth basically acts as a filter removing potential background signals.
As someone working in this exact field I would say no. Where are you going to put it ? The idea of burying it deep in a refracting medium is to eliminate cosmic rays as background noise, and allowing the neutrino to produce a muon which will do a Cherenkov light in the detector. You need a deep refracting medium for this, beside we use the whole earth as a detector because of the low cross-section the neutrino have. So with a smaller stellar body(the moon) you will have less neutrinos interacting, and this less data to work with.
There's a deficit of muons, not neutrinos, from the moon's direction. Neutrinos pass through the moon easily.
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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