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Re:Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen by walrus01 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @09:32AM (#49978199)
Yeah, but now imagine the cost of putting large active electronics 4,000 meters down on the sea floor and keeping it running, and getting the data back off it... The cost of running the drill rig seen in the photos of the icecube detector would be a fraction of that.
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Re:Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen by _Microft on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @11:15AM (#49979768)
That’s also a thing, e.g. in the Mediterranean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KM3NeT

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