What the hell is that? Looks cool though. I read the description. I still don't get it. 

ignite said:

What the hell is that? Looks cool though. I read the description. I still don't get it.

Super-Kamiokande, or Super-K for short, is a neutrino observatory in Japan. The observatory was designed to search for proton decay, study solar and atmospheric neutrinos, and keep watch for supernovas in our galaxy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-K 

They say if you pee while swimming there... it glows. 

Wow, Star Trek makes finding neutrinos easy...

/oops, geek slipped out 

no flash, no html, no java... just a big goddamn jpeg. I like it. 

I want a large pointless hot tub. 

Event Horizon much? 

So lets say one would fall into said...water, would he gain some sort of super powers? 

Who can't find Neutrinos? Duh, they're in Dimension X. 

I remember from an astronomy class that they don't find very many neutrinos each year, but in one month, they found 5x as many as usual. They still can't explain it as far as I know.

I wish I could remember more about it, because now it just looks like I posted some useless anecdote without any relevance. 

i heard about that in my astronomy class a while back, i think they figured out that it was because of something called an m'kraan crystal

oh well, i guess we both probably look like we're talking bullshit 

is this 'heavy water'? 

I bet that's the bladder of some japanese giant robot... 

Sign I've been using Fazed too much: I read "PH18[b]-water-supply-1.JPG" as "[b]PIHB-water-supply-1.JPG."

Anyhow, I vaguely recall reading about a big neutrino detector here in the US, the water was so clear that the divers who fixed the detector elements got vertigo. 

/d'oh. My Flail, let me show you it. 

aramis said:

is this 'heavy water'?

No, Super-K uses regular water. You gotta go to Sudbury if you want a neutrino detector filled with heavy water. 

I for one welcome our large bladdered japanese giant robot overlords. 

I dont know what the crap you guys are talking about.

Its times I like these that make me want to finish that elusive GED. 

I don't know what the fuck this is, but it's gonna make cool desktop wallpaper. 

A neutrino walks into a bar and asks:

“Hey, how much for the beer?”

The bartender says, “For you, no charge.”

||||||||
d 0.o b 

youwhishyouknew said:

Wow, Star Trek makes finding neutrinos easy...

/oops, geek slipped out

Oddly, it looks a little like a Holo Deck 

Tomzilla said:

A neutrino walks into a bar and asks:

“Hey, how much for the beer?”

The bartender says, “For you, no charge.”

Whaddya know? 

Whaddya know?

Not much. Give me another chance.

So, a neutrino passes through a bar... 

Have you heard about the great new neutrino religion?

There's no mass, and they don't charge you to join.

*rimshot* 

....freaky =\ 

I wish they had taken the picture with a camera that didn't suck. That picture is terribly unsharp. 

Logically, the very smallest particle we can detect, must be made up of further particle(s) we cannot yet detect. Does it go on forever? 

^quarks are made up universes duh 

of* 

Bipolar Wookiee said:

Logically, the very smallest particle we can detect, must be made up of further particle(s) we cannot yet detect. Does it go on forever?

string theory anyone? 

i like their little dinghy. i bet a lot of the Japanese have little dinghies. think Japanese women like those little dinghies? i bet they prefer guys with big dinghies. i've got a big dinghy. they could hop onto my dinghy any time they like. i bet i could fit two or three Japanese girls on my dinghy. i don't even have to inflate my dinghy. it's a hard dingy. it's a big, hard, dinghy. i bet some of those Japanese girls could use a ride on a dinghy like mine. once they saw my big, hard, dinghy, they wouldn't want to ride on one of those little Japanese dinghies. then all the Japanese girls would want a ride on my big, hard dinghy. i'd have to charge admission for a ride on my dinghy. yep, we'd go around the world on my dinghy.

/dinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghy
dinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghy
dinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghydinghy 

Stop it. 

Bipolar Wookiee said:

Logically, the very smallest particle we can detect, must be made up of further particle(s) we cannot yet detect. Does it go on forever?

Logically? Ha! I gave up on 'logical' a long time ago.. But seriously, according to Planck the smallest possible distance in nature is 1.6×10^−35 meters. Beyond that anything that tries to move half that distance is now on the end point or hasn't moved at all. I can't remember which one it is. Therefore, you can't have a particle smaller that that size. That's where string theory takes over and tells us that there's 10 or more dimensions. Fun stuff. 

Sonic Infidel said:

I remember from an astronomy class that they don't find very many neutrinos each year, but in one month, they found 5x as many as usual. They still can't explain it as far as I know.

I wish I could remember more about it, because now it just looks like I posted some useless anecdote without any relevance.

Are you thinking of when they were finding only 1/3 of the solar neutrinos they were expecting to detect? You might have been watching this NOVA episode: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/neutrino/missing.html

Also, FYI, theres about a billion neutrinos passing through your body every second. Yet they very rarely interact with matter - which is why you need such a big pool of water to detect them. 

HawkEye said:

Are you thinking of when they were finding only 1/3 of the solar neutrinos they were expecting to detect? You might have been watching this NOVA episode: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/neutrino/missing.html

Also, FYI, theres about a billion neutrinos passing through your body every second. Yet they very rarely interact with matter - which is why you need such a big pool of water to detect them.

That's about where it stops making sense for me. 

n01r said:

Event Horizon much?

Ya rly.

That thing is really cool though... 

Isn't this the background for that Busta Rhymes/Missy Elliot song? 

about a hundred billion solar neutrinos pass through your thumbnail every second

that's some fucked up shit right there 

fuck yeah! Science! 

a hundred billion solar neutrinos pass through your thumbnail every second

that's some fucked up shit right there

/soup 

10 or more dimensions

I remember that post, I had to go lie down after watching it. 

There used to be a Super K in my town. 

Swimming is fun. 

Cool pic, but it loads like 90's dial up porn.
"C'mon....nearly at the nipple.........just a lil' bit more.......YES!" 

Cambot said:

There used to be a Super K in my town.

Now it's a Home Depot, right? 

Jeimuzu said:

That's about where it stops making sense for me.

Like light through a window. 

^BWAHAHAHAHA!! 

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFT - we get enough neutrinos already here in Minnesota:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINOS
http://bcostello.com/Fermilab/index.html 

I remember reading a while back that one of those bubbles shattered when they were filling it the first time and it caused a chain reaction shattering a ton of them... They must have finally fixed it.