[MilCom] Fwd: Fwd: C-130 with rockets and skis: National Science Foundation at South Pole

[Peter Tomlinson]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/22/ice_cube_complete/

That article has over-the-top headlines:

"Enormous 1km ice-cube machine fashioned at South Pole - Boffins in 
magnificent Futurama style feat"

but the project is serious:

International boffins have created an enormous particle detector (for 
neutrinos) by instrumenting up a kilometre-on-a-side cube of the utterly 
pure and transparent ice found thousands of metres beneath the surface 
at the South Pole.

And they are using a USAF C-130 with rockets and skis - excellent pic on 
page 2 of the article.

Peter

Bristol UK