Building the World's Largest Telescope, a Mile Under Antarctic Ice

"with about 200,000 gallons of ice being melted for each hole drilled. "

By my math, that is about 1.6 million pounds which would make a cube about 30 feet on each side.

"by deploying thousands of spherical sensors"

So that is alittle vague, but I'd take it to mean atleast 2000 and less than 20000 [multiple thousands, but not multiple tens of thousands]. Divide that by 60 modules per string and we have a range of about 30 to 300 holes drilled.

Make them into one giant cube and then you're talking about a range of a cube 90 to 200 feet on each side!

Aren't the poles melting fast enough on their own that we don't need to help any further?

rosen380, assuming that Antarctica has ice a half mile deep across its entire surface, that would be .00000000242% of the ice in Antarctica.

Also, I'm guessing they're not taking the water with them. I would imagine it's going right back on/in the ground where it will turn back into....ICE!

i wonder what will power it..

rosen380, you ask Aren't the poles melting fast enough on their own that we don't need to help any further?

The antarctic has been increasing snow and ice for decades, not decreasing. Perhaps you should check it out; it's well-known.

Pretty cool! ( OOPS, I didn't mean to pun. )

BUT... what are you going to do to keep the shoggoths at bay?

"Once the detectors are frozen in the ice, they will remain there for about 25,000 years -- the estimated time it will take for that section of the ice to migrate to the Antarctic coast."
Really? Twenty-five thousand years? Does Al Gore know this? His PPT show had all the Antarctic ice melted by next Thursday.

Would frozen heavy water fluoresce like liquid heavy water detectors? A 60 element array could triangulate submarine reactor locations. A large planet like Jupiter could act as a neutrino focusing refractor if it lined up with our detectors.

Amazing!! it would have been better if they had aimed it at the sky to unravel the mystery of this Universe and gather information about the distant galaxies.
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lololol, alien races will find the remains of our internet and judge it a failed species' receptacle of stupidity. Reference the above 'comments' as evidence.

"Aim it at the sky".... It's a NEUTRINO DETECTOR.

Nvm.... sigh.

If those particles are so old and penetrating everywhere in strait lines, how can they separate them, when they were generated. Most likely, only large concentration sources can be detected. It would be interesting, if some patterns could be distinguished from noise, carrying signatures from sources. Since those patterns would be geometric, it would be a good tool to extract some empiric data, like distances and shapes and if they come in waves, interference patterns should also appear.
What would happen if neutrinos would pass trough a mesh of laser beams, light should curve, change polarization or something and what if those beams would be replaced with field of entangled particles, any change should be detected momentarily?
I find it strange those droplets of mass flying away from neutrons, transforming into protons, like for every transformation of matter, some crackles remain in space.
Is it possible to see some kind of simulation of neutrino space and then subtract it from visible universe picture?
Thinking about it, they could replace mirrors in telescopes with super cooled, homogenius condensate, where light would be slowed down and trapped, then thousands of microscopes would be focused on it, pictures enlarged and merged in computer, with microwave background subtracted from it. Imagine, how far and what would we see with such a device.

neutrino doesnt need to be pointed any were. hell we dont even know were they come from they just appere randomly

It's a shame that the resources used for this experiment aren't applied to real problems like feeding the hungry, curing disease and repairing Congress.

HA! Fixing Congress.. Thats a good one.

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Look here my dear friend...hunger, curing diseases, repairing congress and all the other money and power hungry governing systems are impossible to repair unless we all become Spiritual, not Spiritful! PERIOD!
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"...by the direct strike of a neutrino on an atom of ice..."
An atom of ice? It must be a complete new kind of chemistry they are inventing there!

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aren't neutrinos random occurrences, 270 million dollars. I wonder what world helping causes we could use this for, i feel like this isnt one of them.

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