COMIC TRANSCRIPTION:
Gav: Wow, how 'bout this one, Danny? Scientists are building a cubic-kilometer cosmic neutrino detector deep under the Antarctic ice sheet!
Gav: Now all I need is a one million ton olive and my martini will be complete!
Danny: They will not remove a cubic kilometer of ice, Gav! They will drill holes to place an array of photodetectors, to see blue light cascades within the ice. The high pressure creates low-defect, high transparency ice in a dark, shielded environment.
Gav: So, from the stars out tonight, down where they know it's not cloudy or bright, they only Cherenkov [sic] ice for ν?
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