Inside the Deepest Underground Lab in the U.S. | WIRED

This is the Sanford Underground Research Facility, the deepest underground laboratory in the United States. This facility houses 10 different labs, conducting experiments that can only be done well beneath the Earth's surface. WIRED takes a tour of three labs studying dark matter, neutrinos, and geothermal energy.


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[invox]

Ok WIRED, we need an entire series just on this laboratory.

[NathanEmenySmith]

How did this girl get the job to narrate this? And why does the audio sound like it was recorded with AirPods?

[tamereenshort]

nice video. naration was rough at the begining but it got better. Very interesting stuff.

[luciemew]

Very informative video but the naration is kinda annoying.

[watcher]

It would pay off to hire a different speaker.

[MrFirePunch]

The writing, VO, and EQ were jarringly far off the standard for a Wired video

[chaselein]

Let me do commentary atleast I could sound like I care about the subject and not talk through a laptop microphone.

[ninjayeti]

5:29 "possibly the most concentration of xenon in the universe"? Who copy-edited this thing?

[KimberlyGreen]

Veritasium has a great video on a similar dark matter detector in Australia that's involved in these experiments. They're all trying to corroborate the experimental results observed at the DAMA/LIBRA observatory in Italy. Their video goes into more detail about the actual experiment & would make a great companion to watching video.

[NotHPotter]

Dark matter feels like some kind of bizarre repeat of the Michelson-Morley experiments.

[maemilev]

Finding neutrinos is like finding a random error in their machines.

[erikmjelde]

So cool. You could probably make a years worth of episodes down there!

[MrPopples]

Wired, please find this girl a new job

[agilitypop]

Oh boy, I hope crystals that are extracted and are tested don't possibly cause a resonance cascade.. but that's highly unlikely so you'd probably have nothing to worry about.

[couldbejake]

What's up with the cursive voice narrator

[h]

feels like the best palce for a hooror game to take place

[ShlingusMcDingus]

The girl speaking was not the right person for this job.

[jrelivingmeme]

thank you guys for teaching me more than school ever did. great video!

[tinysparky]

Origunal estimate was 1.26 billion. now expected to cost
$3 billion, preliminary estimate, and construction has slipped 4 years, with first data expected in 2029

[rocketRobScott]

I have an out-of-the-box idea about dark astrophysics. Maybe a scientist could consider it, scientifically.

It’s this: what if completely empty space behaves differently than space containing particulate matter? What if it acts like a bubble, and all clumps together making a bigger and bigger bubble … of inverse gravity.