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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[@invox9490]

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?

[@ThisIsTheInternet]

I couldn't even watch this because of that. I felt like I was sitting through a highschool book report.

[@Boogey1991]

@@ThisIsTheInternet me too

[@Jaegarenffs]

I was thinking make-a-wish-foundation had a kid do the narration :/

[@GlitterandGlamour07]

Uuu

[@Rick_Frigate]

Dude it sounds like that Asian student resident doctor in the last season of House

[@chaselein908]

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

[@AiryFM]

I completely agree. The commentary has hindered the quality.

[@markrobinson2561]

Good god your right, it’s appalling!!

[@nobodistribe6092]

You are spot on and she said forty-eight fifty feet for 4,850 ft. Like what?

[@Carl-Ernst-Otto-Kunze]

That s how much they want you coherent

[@janusconner3710]

Nah, we're good, thanks. FOCUS.

[@tamereenshort4866]

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

[@DonPatro92]

Narration was indeed rough, in the beginning and for the rest of the video.

[@LorainHendriksen]

Ja aa ik

[@LorainHendriksen]

A

[@LorainHendriksen]

@@DonPatro92 a

[@LorainHendriksen]

@@DonPatro92 de aandere van a

[@luciemew4865]

Very informative video but the naration is kinda annoying.

[@AiryFM]

Absolutely. The narration makes me cringe.

[@elijahshould2098]

It's like... Your best friends GF in fourth grade

[@StewieGriffin1901]

Ah hem Stewie here an it's "Narration" an deal with It if it's "annoying" turn ur volume all the way down an turn on captions

[@janusconner3710]

FOCUS.

[@MrFirePunch]

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

[@ScumfuckMcDoucheface]

Yeah man, this was brutal. haha

[@puppytree6343]

So are are the comments geez! (Not yours I mean the other, you know what I mean

[@daddust]

Is this a school report?

[@Emcobb2]

Thank you for this. It made me snort!

[@janusconner3710]

No, it's your mother. FOCUS. (dumbass)

[@watcher8582]

It would pay off to hire a different speaker.

[@RickR69]

Nobody asked.

[@watcher8582]

@@RickR69 Well I'd like to consume an improved video, maybe it helps? No hard feelings.

[@UnashamedlyHentai]

@@RickR69 By making it public you knowingly invite critique.

[@ScumfuckMcDoucheface]

agreeeeeeeed. =)

[@jaridkeen123]

I agree, i wanted to watch it but couldn't stand the 13 year old boy with braces talking

[@ninjayeti2]

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

[@bmay8818]

Where else is there that much liquid xenon?

[@claire2088]

@@bmay8818 he's commenting on the grammar, should be most concentrated or highest concentration

[@couldbejake]

What's up with the cursive voice narrator

[@MrPopples72843]

Wired, please find this girl a new job

[@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.

[@Megadextrious]

Yes! I just watched that yesterday, super interesting stuff! I kind of feel like now I don’t need to watch this video anymore lol….

[@KimberlyGreen]

@@Megadextrious Oh I would disagree. This WIRED video shows more of the equipment and talks about other aspects. They're complimentary and you should definitely watch this one too.

[@maemilev]

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

[@ShlingusMcDingus]

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

[@janusconner3710]

Says WHO? You??? Sit down and FOCUS. Please.

[@ShlingusMcDingus]

@@janusconner3710 You are correct. I am the one who made the comment you replied to!

[@erikmjelde4428]

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

[@CapybaraMMA]

Why was this recorded on a set of wired apple headphones?

[@janusconner3710]

Because your mother was busy blowing me. Any other asinine questions?

[@1776dawg]

Wtf is this voiceover

[@NotHPotter]

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

[@jrelivingmeme]

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

[@PeterBacon]

To be fair this video didn't exist when you were in school.

[@agilitypop6859]

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.

[@h31602685]

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

[@sirbiggithbrian]

Half Life: Dark Matter

[@da3musceteers]

Whats hooror

[@markcornett1787]

It's a music subject that Ryan and Colin enjoy.

[@Cineenvenordquist]

I vote creative nonfiction NTR.

[@28th_St_Air]

The unavoidable disorder of all the cables and tubes in these labs is anxiety inducing. And not for safety reasons. For obsessive compulsive desire for order. :)

[@jacopotarantino]

Don't worry! They're also manually creating cracks in the surface of the earth and nothing could go wrong with that!

[@jacopotarantino]

But for real, most modern scientific escapades are pretty safe. They have layers of physical security and protocols to make sure people stay safe.

[@ToofaniNunnu]

*If amber heard started narrating at the wired*

[@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

[@dennisneo1608]

Can we have a host over 15?

[@FuyuNoAi]

I don't speak in feet.

[@pepperpaige7333]

Very strange choice of narration. She sounds like she needs to cough lol.

[@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.

[@EngPheniks]

"Gordon doesn't need to hear all these. He's a highly trained professional"

[@nonameman7114]

Giving off aperture vibes more than black Mesa

[@Siko7000]

this has some serious scp vibes

[@sauronthegreat5799]

I want to see the laboratory working in the alien autopsy and deciphering alien technology.

[@DankestSupply]

S-4

[@timebot000]

Yes certainly there's more... 15 floors of activity!

[@Edittname]

It's a great and informative video, but I'll be honest, the narration was hard to listen to.

[@garywaters6356]

Various sound waves would help this Dark matter experiment. Thank me after.

[@Being_K]

It’s so many things going on in this world that we don’t know about

[@mikebeatstsb7030]

More like this please 🙏✅💯👍

[@hazzyjc]

did you have to make the narration unbearable to listen to?

[@haralamc]

9:25 better not let the crack heads know they could just grow copper

[@sportstacker56]

Somr day it even leads to the upside down

[@amon_san]

it's great and all that you drop the names of all the tools and machines that they're using and then completely skip any explanation what cryptic TLA machine number 3 does. do you expect me to go into a google rabbit hole for every machine shown on screen? if you have time to label it, please also take time to explain in a few words what it does. or just skip over it entirely because for me it doesn't add to the understanding of what the scientists do when i see a list of nondescript machinery.

[@Cineenvenordquist]

Nah just enjoy the incidental complexity and be happy your own TLA machine 3 does something reasonable.

[@brunokaplan7258]

Everyone is bullying the narrator

[@krninja22]

Actually stopped watching it she was so bad. Sounds like she recorded her audio on her laptop.

[@animalrescuetarot]

Humans are jerks.

[@tonyperkis420]

I worked there building scaffold. Really cool stuff.

[@Savlata8888]

Why does sanford labs hate jews?🤔

[@weirdsciencetv4999]

“Every girl’s crazy about a quark hadron” - LEP Zepplin

[@retrovelcro]

Sounds like Charlyne Yi narrating

[@finn7293]

Burgerking Foot Lettuce is the last thing you'd want in your Meal

[@kallesuojoki4823]

Yeah LBNF/DUNE is the biggest of its kind: linear proton accelerator, neutrino research collaboration and propably the biggest neutrino detectors of its energy range. Little hype in the video. The biggest research collaboration in particle physics and the biggest particle accelerator is LHC in Cern. I think also the biggest neutrino detector by size is the 1 cubic kilometer IceCube in Antarctica. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@A2dy]

This is the place to go if "Into the Night" ever happens

[@JigilJigil]

great video, eager to see even more.

[@SolidMikeP]

Play "Hidden Deep" makes this creepy.

[@MrARock001]

DUSEL! I remember doing some geophysics deep underground to help design the excavations for it. Glad to see it's up and running!

[@emti29]

Sheldon would like to go a tour in this.

[@VikasS10801]

Thanks for tour of this , i always want it 👌👌👌

[@charles4283]

Everybody is talking about the narration but nobody is talking about the typo on ‘partical’ Wired has enough of a budget to get this right

[@mx.menacing]

Lol, I love how you think that a higher income can erase human error.

[@zapfanzapfan]

To see far you have to go deep.

[@tommyguncruise.1962]

. Why does sanford hate JEWS and elderlyb?🤔

[@sandymoonstone855]

. why ask such a question ?

[@SOOKIE42069]

what do they do with those core samples? can you buy them when they’re done with them? i’d love to own a core piece where different types of bedrock met like that!

[@franciscob.deoliveira8904]

Those hundred million year cores would be great to see in a museum.

[@SOOKIE42069]

@@franciscob.deoliveira8904 definitely. And anybody who does purchase such precious items for a personal collection has a responsibility to make it available to researchers whenever it is needed.

[@AlphaBravo860]

I belive you'll never find dark matter as I belive it's part of space time. You can't see time. It just happens. You can't see the glue that holds space time together. It's beyond our understand of what dark matter & space time is.

[@timebot000]

They try do to with machines, what the mind can do alone

[@franciscob.deoliveira8904]

Why so many commercials? Totally annoying for such an intriguing topic. Too bad the general public couldn't tour a facility like this. That would make a lasting field trip.

[@Jan-nu6zc]

Black Mesa vibes

[@bryanjkoop8316]

Walt would have put better use to this lab.

[@couldbejake]

Number 15: Burger King Foot Lettuce

[@kristintrisha2616]

Please say there will be a PART 2 😕...

[@janusconner3710]

I love that he mentioned Beyonce!!! She is literally the queen of all matter. I LIVE.

[@AlsoTecoManIsCool]

"Good morning and welcome to the Black Mesa transit system"

[@stevemccrea2688]

How does Wired manage to put up a thumbnail with 'particle' misspelled.

[@mikehc]

Is this Black Mesa?

[@CorporalDanLives]

Hello, Gordon

[@timmallette1888]

Seriously why does every other line sound like it was recorded in a different room with a different microphone?

[@MrMilarepa108]

OMG so much Xenon, sign me up.

[@s0k010v]

The Black Mesa Research Facility)

[@Carl-Ernst-Otto-Kunze]

Question Number 1: Do you have Curium and Mendelium salt on stock, to sprinkle on your pizza?

[@kristinabliss]

Did this show intentionally omit what type of mine this "was"?

[@grungjy]

my guy sounds like he's crying

[@robots-uu8fc]

I hope one day we'll all completely understand dark matter through better detectors. Very informative video, thank you

[@Mysterialic]

Jesser, we need to cook.

[@EikottXD]

That's dope 🤘🏻

[@TrekDelta]

BLACK MESA

[@ezshooter4180]

If a neutrino travels through my body or a whole planet, when does the neutrino stop?

[@doncorleone7940]

Who on earth thought of this first?

[@karthikyl573]

this video gave me backroom vibes lol

[@collectornick4270]

Especially that 1st experiment and the clean suits.

[@anubisplays1421]

Didn't JWST just confirm the universe is far older and bigger than we realise, there is your missing mass, lolol

[@ighishi]

Not working out

[@ceciliacorson1804]

‘Partical’ physics 😂

[@Abusemtex]

Hugh kinda looks like Gordon Freeman. Coincidence? I do not think so.

[@Sweze]

now we just need an omnipotent ai

[@timebot000]

Isnt there a MAGLEV train down there?👽

[@mry82]

Anyone else read the science fiction book "Hominids"?

[@kevinmerendino761]

I got this. Dark matter is NOT moving thru the earth. Dark matter is still. Its is NOT physical "space time" matter. It IS matter WITHOUT TIME! That is "space 0 time" (0=ought). By definition it is "older" then the birth of the universe and IS PERFECTLY (respectively) STILL just as our universe's "origin" is.

[@Cineenvenordquist]

The mine moves through space pretty quick, look out for the whip round.

[@leroyc5289]

woot woot said the daily brain!!!

[@rbesfe]

Still not as deep or as cool as SNOLAB

[@Hatedbyfakesss]

This is probably why earthquakes happen 😂😂😂😂😂

[@jordz3871]

are they making dark hole ?

[@unclegreenskatesoda9570]

This some Umbrella Corp type stuff

[@1iamburn588]

Carl weezer

[@andrewo5296]

I thought we had detected it already?

[@ThisIsTheInternet]

There is one experiment that has results that *may* have detected dark matter but it hasn't been confirmed in any other experiment yet.

[@grimoplaywakfupcgame6622]

umberella corp inspired by

[@BlvckWorld932]

Y'all need to kill more zombies if u want complete understanding of dark matter

[@skvalparn]

Great series but please take in a more interested sounding speaker than this girl. Jesus so anoying i almost fell a sleep.

[@okhera1]

Very Nice Bro! Get Good People!

[@jebbohol3437]

Is it just me or Nicolas Cage was there?

[@cleaner001]

5k feet below ground yea they got some ish down there