Last summer Anita heard impossible anomalous radio pulses, not from outer space, where Anita was meant to listen, but from below the ice. Anita was built to track neutrinos; you have a billion neutrinos passing through your thumbnail at any moment. Neutrinos detected by Anita must travel to Antarctica without interacting with anything else. Anita could be detecting a neutrino coming from the edge of the observable Universe. There are new, unknown types of particles or processes in the universe. Could be tau leptons, which emerge from the Earth and decay into atmospheric showers that could generate detectable radio waves. This theory is unlikely. In science, finding nothing often means finding something.
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I've recently been fascinated with Antarctic infrastructure. There is something poetic about it, indescribably so.
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