No, not the entertainer – the neutrino sensor array in Antarctica was finished last month. It’s comprised of 86 tubes drilled over 2,000m into clear ice with over 5,000 basketball-sized detectors placed in the tubes. The “telescope” will observe neutrino collisions which are very rare. Even with the massive size of the sensor array, it will only witness several hundred per day. Scientists from around the world hope to use the data recorded to help provide insight into dark matter and other subatomic mysteries.

On a side note, I wonder how long before some eco-activist gets word of this. Consider for a minute that they (largely U.S. organizations – some of your tax money, included) spent the last 6 years constructing this “telescope” by drilling these holes and removing large amounts of ice. It is estimated that 200,000 gallons of ice are melted for each hole (that’s a total of 17.2 million gallons of ice for the array or roughly 65,790 tons of ice [assuming a U.S. gallon at a pressure of 1 atmosphere at sea level – our mileage may vary with denser pressures in the holes]). The report cites that roughly 4,800 gallons of fuel were used to drill each hole which is enough gasoline (if that’s what is used – maybe diesel) to drive a 35mpg vehicle 14,448,000 miles or 580 trips around the equator. Ok, I hear the crickets chirping now, I’m done tweaking folks.

GorT

GorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. The profits from this pay all the Gormogons’ bills, including subsidizing this website. Some of the products he has introduced from the future include oven mitts, the Guinness widget, Oxy-Clean, and Dr. Pepper. Due to his immense cybernetic brain, GorT is able to produce a post in 0.023 seconds and research it in even less time. Only ’Puter spends less time on research. GorT speaks entirely in zeros and ones, but occasionally throws in a ڭ to annoy the Volgi. He is a massive proponent of science, technology, and energy development, and enjoys nothing more than taking the Czar’s more interesting scientific theories, going into the past, publishing them as his own, and then returning to take credit for them. He is the only Gormogon who is capable of doing math. Possessed of incredible strength, he understands the awesome responsibility that follows and only uses it to hurt people.