I think that the unusual thing was that they identified extragalactic neutrinos.

IceCube also likes to name their events after Sesame Street characters, so you’d get things like Bert and Ernie events. Not sure if they still do since you eventually run out of characters.

its possible you havent been keeping up with sesame street, because no they won't.

The energy of the IceCube neutrinos is 2 to 4 orders of magnitude higher than the ones detected by this experiment. But this is still cool because it's the highest energy neutrinos detected from man-made sources.

See slide 13 here: https://indico.in2p3.fr/event/29681/contributions/122474/att...

> IceCube Neutrino Observatory (funny name lol)

It's also an incredibly descriptive and literal name - the observatory is a cubic kilometer of photosensitive detectors frozen in ice at the south pole. When a neutrino interacts with the ice, it produces cherenkov radiation, which can be detected and sent up the chain to a server to classify what was actually detected.

Yeah, wasn't it Sheldon Cooper who discovered that?

- JK