“The radio waves that we detected were at really steep angles, like 30 degrees below the surface of the ice,” said Stephanie Wissel, associate professor of physics, astronomy and astrophysics who worked on the ANITA team searching for signals from elusive particles called neutrinos.
“My guess is that some interesting radio propagation effect occurs near ice and also near the horizon that I don't fully understand, but we certainly explored several of those, and we haven't been able to find any of those yet either,” Wissel said. “So, right now, it's one of these long-standing mysteries, and I'm excited that when we fly PUEO, we'll have better sensitivity. In principle, we should pick up more anomalies, and maybe we'll actually understand what they are. We also might detect neutrinos, which would in some ways be a lot more exciting.”
bbarnett [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Look, um I'm sorry but this is maybe my fault.
I worke for NASA and about six years ago I was touring Antarctica, and because of my clearance, I managed to get on the ice. After a while, I went to take a dump behind one of the the sheds, and while walking back I... accidentally dropped the prototype nuclear battery device I was working on. And it like kind of pulses every once in a while and it must have fallen below the ice and That was me, sorry. Thank you. The end.
mtsolitary [3 hidden]5 mins ago
That's where they left the Stargate!
layer8 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
The second, older one, to be precise.
cluckindan [3 hidden]5 mins ago
It’s just the almost-depleted ZPM at the abandoned ancient outpost.
transcriptase [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Someone found the chair…
biorach [3 hidden]5 mins ago
The Thing!
nyc_data_geek1 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Who Goes There?
plasticchris [3 hidden]5 mins ago
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
SketchySeaBeast [3 hidden]5 mins ago
At the Mountains of Madness would be more apropos than The Call of Cthulhu.
nikanj [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I bet the signal says Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!
Beijinger [3 hidden]5 mins ago
OMFG. This must be Hitler in New Swabia
mhh__ [3 hidden]5 mins ago
he's been chilling down there, playing scrabble with tupac and lord lucan
HN.zip
“The radio waves that we detected were at really steep angles, like 30 degrees below the surface of the ice,” said Stephanie Wissel, associate professor of physics, astronomy and astrophysics who worked on the ANITA team searching for signals from elusive particles called neutrinos.
“My guess is that some interesting radio propagation effect occurs near ice and also near the horizon that I don't fully understand, but we certainly explored several of those, and we haven't been able to find any of those yet either,” Wissel said. “So, right now, it's one of these long-standing mysteries, and I'm excited that when we fly PUEO, we'll have better sensitivity. In principle, we should pick up more anomalies, and maybe we'll actually understand what they are. We also might detect neutrinos, which would in some ways be a lot more exciting.”
I worke for NASA and about six years ago I was touring Antarctica, and because of my clearance, I managed to get on the ice. After a while, I went to take a dump behind one of the the sheds, and while walking back I... accidentally dropped the prototype nuclear battery device I was working on. And it like kind of pulses every once in a while and it must have fallen below the ice and That was me, sorry. Thank you. The end.