Comments on: Snolab https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/05/snolab/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/05/snolab/#comment-27492 podrock Tue, 08 Oct 2013 01:48:38 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=38898#comment-27492 And in Sudbury, too. Not the same mine, but similar: the ear-popping descent while rock walls hurry past, the headlamps, hard hats and steel toed boots; disposable safety goggles. Didn't notice if she had her "brass", a small metal tag that keeps track of who entered the mine. And if they came out again. You'd think that mines would be closed, cramped places. Well, they are that, back at the face or in the stope or in the refuge chamber / break room. However, there is almost no limit to the volume of single rooms they can carve out. So long as the engineering is done right they can create spaces the size of aircraft hangers - and bigger. I've seen machine shops a mile underground that are bigger than any I've seen above ground. Thanks for the walk down memory lane. And in Sudbury, too. Not the same mine, but similar: the ear-popping descent while rock walls hurry past, the headlamps, hard hats and steel toed boots; disposable safety goggles. Didn’t notice if she had her “brass”, a small metal tag that keeps track of who entered the mine. And if they came out again.

You’d think that mines would be closed, cramped places. Well, they are that, back at the face or in the stope or in the refuge chamber / break room. However, there is almost no limit to the volume of single rooms they can carve out. So long as the engineering is done right they can create spaces the size of aircraft hangers – and bigger. I’ve seen machine shops a mile underground that are bigger than any I’ve seen above ground.

Thanks for the walk down memory lane.

]]> By: alcaray https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/05/snolab/#comment-27464 alcaray Mon, 07 Oct 2013 09:21:34 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=38898#comment-27464 By umm... how to figure this out when I can't remember title nor author... I had an email dialog with the author wonder if the email is around... no good... ah! Hominids, by Robert Sawyer was one of the books in the series. By umm… how to figure this out when I can’t remember title nor author… I had an email dialog with the author wonder if the email is around… no good… ah! Hominids, by Robert Sawyer was one of the books in the series.

]]> By: DanS https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/05/snolab/#comment-27443 DanS Sun, 06 Oct 2013 04:11:06 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=38898#comment-27443 I had read of the detector many times, but had never actually seen it. Nice tour. Short, but nice. Thx, Jody. I had read of the detector many times, but had never actually seen it.

Nice tour. Short, but nice.

Thx, Jody.

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/05/snolab/#comment-27439 TB Sat, 05 Oct 2013 23:48:42 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=38898#comment-27439 <p>The next phase:</p> <a href="http://snoplus.phy.queensu.ca/Home.html" rel="nofollow">Here.</a> This time they have to fill the sphere with an organic liquid that's actually lighter than the water surrounding the sphere's exterior, so they need cables to hold the sphere down, not just up. The next phase:

Here.

This time they have to fill the sphere with an organic liquid that’s actually lighter than the water surrounding the sphere’s exterior, so they need cables to hold the sphere down, not just up.

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/05/snolab/#comment-27438 TB Sat, 05 Oct 2013 23:41:24 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=38898#comment-27438 Not only is that one of the coolest scientific instruments ever, but that's the first I'd heard that they'd solved the "missing neutrinos" problem. Not only is that one of the coolest scientific instruments ever, but that’s the first I’d heard that they’d solved the “missing neutrinos” problem.

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