#xkcd 3249

[todays-xkcd]

We definitely put the pool in a mine for shielding. It was absolutely not to hide it from the funding people.

Neutrino Project [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[There is a large pool with a curved edge at the bottom of the panel, with a diving board and several stickfigures in and around it. Ponytail and Cueball are talking in the pool; two characters with relatively indistinct hair are in the water either side of them, passing a beachball between themselves; a Cueball has somersaulted off the diving board in a 'cannonball'-like jump; a Danish and a Ponytail with a drink are walking along the outside of the pool.] Ponytail in pool: How much trouble do you think we'll be in when they find out we used the grant money to throw a huge pool party instead? Cueball: We could argue that we did build a neutrino detector. Cueball: There's a lot of water here. A solar neutrino will probably interact with it at some point. Ponytail: ...Wait. Actually, if we got some photomultiplier tubes... [Caption below comic:] How the neutrino detector was invented