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Begging To Be In A Daft Punk Video

Posted January 09, 2008 8:38 AM

From electro^plankton:

The Kamioka Observatory in Japan is perhaps one of the most stunning pieces of architecture designed for scientific research. Located 1,000 meters underground, a cylindrical tube houses 50,000 tons of ultra-purified water. The walls are completely sheathed in photomultiplier tubes able to detect neutrinos, proton decay and cosmic rays. Not open to the public but I can only imagine. Seen it at New Launches.

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01/09/2008 10:04 AM

That is just cool! I'd love to work there...

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01/09/2008 9:17 PM

Earlier experiments were done with highly toxic chemicals, chlorinated solvents, several decades ago.

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01/10/2008 6:26 AM

We looked at manufacturing the PMTs for this project a couple of years ago but just could not cope with the quantity of detectors required.

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01/10/2008 5:59 PM

How does one ultra purify water? Not trying to be snarky here I am just wondering what sort of process is used?
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01/10/2008 8:57 PM

membrane filtration, filter beds, IR exposure, ion exchange, deionization, reverse osmosis......?

That's what comes quickly to mind.

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