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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. Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►►…

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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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76 Comments

  1. Mike beats tsb

    June 9, 2022 at 7:20 pm

    More like this please 🙏✅💯👍

  2. Drew Beasley

    June 9, 2022 at 7:22 pm

    Wtf is this voiceover

  3. Luciemew

    June 9, 2022 at 7:39 pm

    Very informative video but the naration is kinda annoying.

  4. David Brandt

    June 9, 2022 at 7:51 pm

    Are taxpayers paying for this?

    • M. Gustafson

      June 9, 2022 at 9:29 pm

      Are you actually paying taxes?🤔

  5. Erik Mjelde

    June 9, 2022 at 8:06 pm

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

  6. Watcher

    June 9, 2022 at 8:11 pm

    It would pay off to hire a different speaker.

    • iAMhonka

      June 9, 2022 at 10:57 pm

      Nobody asked.

    • Watcher

      June 10, 2022 at 12:00 am

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

  7. Jake Nelson

    June 9, 2022 at 8:18 pm

    Number 15: Burger King Foot Lettuce

  8. Grimo play Wakfu PC Game

    June 9, 2022 at 8:36 pm

    umberella corp inspired by

  9. Bercilak

    June 9, 2022 at 8:46 pm

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

  10. russell zauner

    June 9, 2022 at 9:01 pm

    It’s so if they unlock the secret of the universe one day they can just seal them up

  11. Gavin Gilmore

    June 9, 2022 at 9:03 pm

    Who, what, and why you are so bored is amazingly useless. Dark matter huh, ok yeah right. You need girlfriends

  12. skvalparn

    June 9, 2022 at 9:25 pm

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

  13. Citadel

    June 9, 2022 at 10:02 pm

    Black mesa

  14. thinkabout

    June 9, 2022 at 10:07 pm

    Ummmm WHAT ?? 😜

  15. SOOKIE!

    June 9, 2022 at 10:09 pm

    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!

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    June 9, 2022 at 10:28 pm

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  17. Fire_Punch

    June 9, 2022 at 11:10 pm

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

    • Scumfuck McDoucheface

      June 10, 2022 at 4:48 am

      Yeah man, this was brutal. haha

    • puppy tree

      June 10, 2022 at 6:12 pm

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

  18. Kevin Merendino

    June 10, 2022 at 12:21 am

    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.

    • Steve Nordquist

      June 10, 2022 at 9:20 am

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

  19. AndreyKanye

    June 10, 2022 at 12:26 am

    Im sorry, but why does the narration sound like it’s done by carl wheezer??

  20. Kevin Merendino

    June 10, 2022 at 12:27 am

    You want “dark matter” ? SIMPLE Match the speed we our moving thru the cosmos in the direction of its origin. Just what did you think James Webb was REALY for? Jst ask NASAs QAI

  21. Stephen Wilson

    June 10, 2022 at 12:50 am

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

  22. Charlie

    June 10, 2022 at 1:03 am

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

  23. Live Light

    June 10, 2022 at 1:12 am

    Sounds like Charlyne Yi narrating

  24. Bryan J Koop

    June 10, 2022 at 1:16 am

    Walt would have put better use to this lab.

  25. CorporalDanLives

    June 10, 2022 at 3:17 am

    Hello, Gordon

  26. Jacopo Tarantino

    June 10, 2022 at 3:40 am

    The narration sounds like Aubrey Plaza on crack.

  27. Nathan Emeny-Smith

    June 10, 2022 at 4:25 am

    How did this girl get the job to narrate this? And why does the audio sound like it was recorded with AirPods?

  28. Don Corleone

    June 10, 2022 at 5:28 am

    Who on earth thought of this first?

  29. carl basbas

    June 10, 2022 at 6:27 am

    This is the place to go if “Into the Night” ever happens

  30. Amon San

    June 10, 2022 at 6:54 am

    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.

    • Steve Nordquist

      June 10, 2022 at 9:12 am

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

  31. DEADBADUGLY

    June 10, 2022 at 7:43 am

    ~1450 meters

  32. Kalle Suojoki

    June 10, 2022 at 8:41 am

    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. 🤷🏻‍♂️

  33. Shishir Gururaj

    June 10, 2022 at 8:46 am

    Not working out

  34. Jasper

    June 10, 2022 at 12:45 pm

    😴

  35. - SOFFY-🥂T[A]P Me!! to Have [𝐒]𝐄𝐗 With 𝐌𝐞

    June 10, 2022 at 1:37 pm

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

  36. emmanuel pastoral

    June 10, 2022 at 1:58 pm

    Sheldon would like to go a tour in this.

  37. r j

    June 10, 2022 at 2:45 pm

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

  38. [ Billey ] H0T Girl-C0me 0ver L!ve

    June 10, 2022 at 3:11 pm

    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!

  39. Fathu Nur

    June 10, 2022 at 3:31 pm

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

  40. Sanford Underground Research Facility

    June 10, 2022 at 5:53 pm

    Awesome video, WIRED! Thanks for visiting. Want to go even deeper with America’s Underground Science Lab? Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more #DeepScience content!

  41. citystars1117

    June 10, 2022 at 5:59 pm

    Billions of tax dollars well spent. 👀

  42. Francisco B. De Oliveira

    June 11, 2022 at 3:41 am

    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.

  43. Mac

    June 11, 2022 at 5:17 am

    God’s universe is so intricate.

  44. Adam

    June 11, 2022 at 7:45 am

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

  45. Sean G 137 #NewPhysics

    June 11, 2022 at 8:15 am

    You cannot detect dark matter particles just like you cannot touch your nose with your own nose. You must deduce it.How can neutrinos pass through solid matter? Well 1st anyone keeping up with physics knows that mounting violations tell us the standard model is an incorrect model. Here is why neutrinos can pass through solid dense matter. using the correct model of physics that unifies, explains and fixes everything in physics.

  46. s0k010v

    June 11, 2022 at 8:56 am

    The Black Mesa Research Facility)

  47. kjapardi

    June 11, 2022 at 3:37 pm

    Dark matter seems as elusive as my attention as I try to focus while listening to the narration…

  48. Vikas Singh

    June 11, 2022 at 4:10 pm

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

  49. Keyboard Warrior

    June 11, 2022 at 5:35 pm

    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.

  50. Invox

    June 12, 2022 at 10:30 am

    Ok WIRED, we need an entire series just on this laboratory.

  51. Costas haralambaki

    June 12, 2022 at 6:32 pm

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

  52. quierosuperpoderes

    June 12, 2022 at 10:14 pm

    Why is Olivia Rodrigo narrating this?

  53. HazzyVR

    June 13, 2022 at 12:54 am

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

  54. Life is Never the same

    June 13, 2022 at 5:07 am

    US is bad at scientific research. India won most the nobel prize.

  55. AndrewO

    June 13, 2022 at 4:05 pm

    I thought we had detected it already?

  56. MRspecks94

    June 13, 2022 at 5:51 pm

    She is not the right person to narrate this video,sounds awful 😂😂

  57. living meme

    June 13, 2022 at 6:06 pm

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

  58. jigil jigil

    June 13, 2022 at 6:58 pm

    great video, eager to see even more.

  59. Mykhailo Hohol

    June 14, 2022 at 4:29 am

    if its 95% of mass in the Universe, isn’t it supposed to be heavy..? Why are they measuring some particles that would move through 1.5km of rock..? What would that evidence be of? 
    “Waiting and waiting and waiting for something to happen.” Yeah sounds like waste of resources to me, mine was more useful!

  60. Mykhailo Hohol

    June 14, 2022 at 4:39 am

    neutrino is it’s own antiparticle.. Isn’t it claimed that when a particle and antiparticle are in contact they create an explosion, they are destroyed and a lot of energy is produced? Why would such initial hypothesis be reasonable then?
    Seems like they came up with germanium detector and fitted the useless theory to get a grant money for the research.

  61. Chase Morgan

    June 14, 2022 at 6:31 am

    Wired, please find this girl a new job

  62. WeirdscienceTV

    June 15, 2022 at 4:52 am

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

  63. prdamico

    June 15, 2022 at 1:33 pm

    Dark Matter & Dark Energy are both JUNK science…………..

  64. Christian Lenter

    June 15, 2022 at 6:52 pm

    First thing

    Neutrinos are speeded up loose
    Nautrones
    But that self as

    Years old doctrine
    Understood you not.

  65. Christian Lenter

    June 15, 2022 at 6:52 pm

    Thifs

    Dark matter is not to reach
    And meta phor

  66. Christian Lenter

    June 15, 2022 at 6:52 pm

    And an hul
    Off soace
    After her exonomen

  67. Christian Lenter

    June 15, 2022 at 6:54 pm

    Yoz find no neutrinos
    Look around there are all the way some

  68. dennis neo

    June 17, 2022 at 2:29 am

    Can we have a host over 15?

  69. karthik yl

    June 17, 2022 at 6:50 pm

    this video gave me backroom vibes lol

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