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Friday, May 01, 2009 By Aaron Brown
Read more about the new underground physics lab near the Iron Range. Between this place and the existing lab in the Soudan underground mine this scientific project is just vaguely starting to remind me of the Darma Initiative from "Lost."I guess that makes me a "hostile." Or an "other?" Where's John Locke when you need him?
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May 1, 2009 at 12:17 PM
May 1, 2009 at 12:22 PM
You watch LOST? I didn't know that. Personally, I'm thinking the most recent season is jumping the shark. Do you have any idea why they're studying neutrinos on the Iron Range of all places?
May 1, 2009 at 12:32 PM
The reason for locating on the Range is highly technical: The Soudan mine is really deep.
Seriously, being under all that rock is helpful for the neutrino detection equipment (it helps shield it from naturally occurring neutrinos, or something like that).
It's also a convenient distance away from Fermi labs near Chicago. They generate neutrinos at Fermi, than shoot them through the Earth to Soudan.
I think I'll-tempered sea bass are also involved somehow...
May 1, 2009 at 1:05 PM
It's also true that the density of the rock around Soudan is such that it helps to slow the neutrinos down a wee bit, thus making them easier to catch.
May 1, 2009 at 10:33 PM
This season of Lost is kicking my ass!
Though I have to say you're attempts to seem hip through pop culture references seem strained--like when Dr. Evil does the macarena.
May 2, 2009 at 8:55 AM
@ Matt -- I don't think it's jumped the shark. The show only had a few different directions (religion, psychology, time travel) it could go ... I think all that is "lost" is the sense that we have absolutely no idea what's really going on ... now we do.
@anon and Steve ... thanks for the science.
@Daniel ... That's my gimmick! Ha ha! :-)