Wired Cola

Stupid green snot! You've been coming out of my nose for three weeks! Go away! Nobody wants you!

Argh! I'm sick of being sick! I'm sick of feeling 80% effective! Anger!

Ahem.

And a Good Friday to you too.

Thanks to Mr. Coop, I got to read about Turbonique, purveyors of the craziest technology ever to grace 1960s hot-rodding.

Independently powered superchargers. Direct-drive 1000-hp auxiliary turbine motors for cars. Rocket-powered go-karts capable of sub-9-second quarter miles with 160+mph trap speeds.

It makes me weep with joy just to know this stuff ever existed.

Sometimes high-end particle science is a little bit weird, and sometimes it is very weird indeed.

These wild and crazy guys are drilling into Antarctic ice to use it as a neutrino detector. That's what you sometimes have to do, I guess: drill up to 2.5 km deep into the ice at the South Pole and drop a few thousand detectors into the holes to see if any neutrinos are coming by.