http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ Daily Kitten Chat Forum Topic: Work begins on world's deepest underground lab en Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:20:05 +0000 http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18267#post-402574 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:43:06 +0000 Karma's Daddy 402574@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Yep. That's about 45 miles up the road from us. I knew a couple guys that worked in the mine before it shut down. It's a LOONNNNGGGG way down to the bottom. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18267#post-402530 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:49:29 +0000 2bpurring 402530@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Wow, I don't think I could work in a place like this...I would feel so enclosed!! but you're right, it's the best place to study dark matter! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18267#post-402399 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:27:42 +0000 Marnet 402399@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090623/ap_on_sc/us_sci_underground_science" rel="nofollow">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090623/ap_on_sc/us_sci_underground_science</a></p> <p>They want to prove the existence of "dark matter" and need to work far underground to be shielded from cosmic rays that can interfere with detection of hypothesized dark matter particles.</p> <p>Now I just have to wonder, what better place to study dark matter than down deep in a dark hole in the ground? :-) </p>