[HN Gopher] World's deepest, largest underground lab operational
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World's deepest, largest underground lab operational
Author : 1970-01-01
Score : 72 points
Date : 2023-12-08 21:09 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.chinadaily.com.cn)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.chinadaily.com.cn)
| 0xEF wrote:
| Surely there's a better acronym.
| prpl wrote:
| like DAMPE?
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| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Matter_Particle_Explore...
| lostlogin wrote:
| They have tidied it up too. The Deep Underground and Ultra-low
| Radiation Background Facility for Frontier Physics Experiments
| - DUaUlRBFfFPE.
| adhesive_wombat wrote:
| Sound good to me. Where is it? Deep in "DURF".
| jadbox wrote:
| Looking at the images, I can't help to think of Umbrella
| corporation with deep underground safe testing labs with
| presently problematic lighting.
| jcrawfordor wrote:
| DURF is useful to distinguish it from a Deep Underground
| Military Base, or DUMB.
| ano-ther wrote:
| Here is a video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i77k2H5gJwI
| FileSorter wrote:
| https://youtu.be/i77k2H5gJwI?t=34
|
| Quite amazing how prevalent Windows XP is 22 years later
| tutfbhuf wrote:
| I hope it's either a completely offline computer or a Linux
| system with an XP theme to make it look more familiar to the
| users.
| exmadscientist wrote:
| I worked in a very similar place a decade ago, and probably
| know a few of the major people involved here. Not that I've
| kept up with them.
|
| The machines 10 years ago were on a LAN with limited access
| to the global (well, Chinese) Internet. It wasn't great but
| it wasn't terrible.
|
| More troublingly, I would bet a large sum of money that
| there are Windows XP installs in this lab, and even pirate
| installs of LabView. I distinctly remember being onsite
| watching the guy next to me open up a NFO file to get the
| instructions for the LabView crack. At my station in one of
| the boxes I had a fully licensed multi-seat institutional
| LabView DVD set, paid for at staggering cost somewhere in
| the University hierarchy. I debated speaking up, but
| decided to just let him keep going on doing what he was
| doing. That was probably the right choice.
| mianos wrote:
| Hey oai what OS? Based on the appearance of the window border
| and the general graphical style of the interface, it is
| plausible that the operating system could be Windows XP. This
| version of Windows is known for its distinct blue taskbar and
| window borders, which seem to match the style shown in the
| image. However, without a clearer view, this cannot be stated
| with certainty.
| notaurus wrote:
| Low effort AI answer
| consumer451 wrote:
| https://archive.is/1xhYm
| jensenbox wrote:
| Missed opportunity in naming it.
|
| I wish it was DA-URF. Then you could say we have a lab, it is
| deep in DA-URF.
| pphysch wrote:
| The lede suggests that it is mainly for dark matter detection,
| but later on they say it is for interdisciplinary research
| including life sciences. Is this just due to the "ultra clean"
| capabilities, or are there other reasons why you would want to do
| life sciences research 7K feet underground?
| gemstones wrote:
| (This is not China-bashing, as I assume lots of other nations
| do this for the same reasons.)
|
| It's a lot harder to have unwanted intruders, and satellite
| surveillance is less likely. This lab will 100% have a military
| research purpose.
| orbital-decay wrote:
| I don't think you need a mountain for that. A properly
| guarded surface complex with enclosed corridors between
| facilities would be far cheaper and enough to protect
| something from intruders or satellite surveillance. IIRC
| similar facilities (Cheyenne Complex, Zheleznogorsk MCC,
| Yamantaw) were built as nuclear strike resistant bunkers
| first. There are also nuclear waste storage facilities all
| over the world.
| gemstones wrote:
| But a mountain would work, yes? And if you already need the
| mountain lab for physics, what is the extra cost to staff
| military personnel there?
| jmnicolas wrote:
| Digging holes 2400 meters deep isn't exactly cheap, even
| for a country like China.
| trevyn wrote:
| I see you have not read/watched The Andromeda Strain.
| andyjohnson0 wrote:
| A fantastic achievement.
|
| To give this some scale: according to Wolfram Alpha, 2400m is
| 0.038% of the average distance from the earth's surface to its
| centre.
|
| Its a deep planet as well as a big one.
| tutfbhuf wrote:
| I have a somewhat off-topic question: I know there are very few
| sites that are actually doomsday-proof, but could this lab, being
| 2400 meters deep in the ground, survive a direct hit from a ICBM
| (e.g. LGM-30 Minuteman) with a megaton yield?
| p1mrx wrote:
| Nice try, Chinese military.
| lstodd wrote:
| About a hundred feet plus shock absorbers will suffice.
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