This $271 Million Telescope Is Buried Under the South Pole (Gizmodo.com)

Late last week construction of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory wrapped up at the National Science Foundation?s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. The team of international scientists behind the effort have come up with something truly remarkable in building the world?s largest neutrino observatory. The massive telescope, which is the size of a cubic kilometer and located 1400 meters underground, took a decade to build and cost approximately $271 million. Oh, and if you lined up the world?s three tallest skyscrapers, their collective height would be shorter than this telescope.