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Sanford Underground Research Laboratory is in Lead, South Dakota.
by protomyth 6y ago
Sanford Underground Research Laboratory is in Lead, South Dakota.
- gpderetta 6y ago> Lead I guess it is not a coincidence they are putting a neutrino detector in a place called that way. Am I correct to assume there are old lead mines there? Edit: there are mines, very deep mines, but not Lead mines in fact. And the detector is in one of them.
- zedpm 6y agoLead is not named for the element lead nor is it pronounced the same. It's pronounced like leader (without the er, of course) and named for a mining term[0]. [0]: https://www.britannica.com/place/Lead-South-Dakota https://www.britannica.com/place/Lead-South-Dakota
- gpderetta 6y agoyes, I did check the wiki page after posting my comment, hence my edit :)
- protomyth 6y agoThe fun part is there is actually a Leeds, ND (pronounced the same but spelled different) which is named for a place in England which was a bit common in North Dakota even with the large Nordic immigrations. Of course, anything that the Natives put "Spirit" into got renamed "Devil".
- cshimmin 6y agoD'oh you are correct. I'm always getting my Dakotas mixed up. I should have also added that this is not my specialty (I work on the ATLAS experiment at the LHC in Switzerland).
- protomyth 6y agoHappens all the time, the NY Times confuse which state has what Senator and ESPN's stock footage for "North Dakota" is a bison with the I90 Highway sign in the background (I90 is SD, I94 is ND).