http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=109694&org=NSF

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"The National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced selection of a University of California-Berkeley proposal to produce a technical design for a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) at the former Homestake gold mine near Lead, S.D. The Homestake team, headed by Kevin Lesko, could receive up to $5 million per year for up to three years. --- Those and other crucial questions can only be investigated at great depth, where thousands of feet of rock can shield ultra-sensitive physics experiments from background activity, and where geoscientists, biologists and engineers can have direct access to geological structures, tectonic processes and life forms that cannot be studied fully in any other way. Several countries, including Canada, Italy and Japan, have extensive deep science programs. The United States has no existing facilities below a depth of 1 kilometer. If eventually built as envisioned by its supporters, a Homestake DUSEL would be the largest and deepest facility of its kind in the world. "

What was that movie/computer game? Not resident evil was it? The one with the uberdeep research facility where something bad happened...

[Edited on July 12, 2007 at 9:49 AM. Reason : .]

7/12/2007 9:49:12 AM

resident evil

7/12/2007 10:01:31 AM

Yep that was Resident Evil. There was a bunch of crap underneath the mansion. In fact that is exactly what I thought of when I read this thread, better get some green herbs .

7/12/2007 10:03:18 AM

Finally! Dr Strangelove is gonna have a place to hang out when the bombs come!

7/12/2007 10:04:24 AM

Half-Life would have also been an acceptable answer.

7/12/2007 10:41:04 AM

Half-Life was more "out in the middle of nowhere" than it was underground.

7/12/2007 10:45:18 AM

Most of the lab part was under a mountain, with a military base built on top of it.

7/12/2007 10:46:13 AM

It wasn't stressed as being underground though. In Resident Evil once you get through the initial mansion and get to the complex, that's it there are no windows and you never go outside or anything. There were tons of parts in Half-Life were you are outside doing stuff.

On a related note, I don't believe we are actually debating something so trivial, hahaha

7/12/2007 11:03:25 AM

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"Finally! Dr Strangelove is gonna have a place to hang out when the bombs come!"

There are already several places for that. Mt. Weather, Cheyenne Mt, Greenbrier, and Raven Rock

7/12/2007 11:13:02 AM

andromeda strain from the 70's???

7/12/2007 3:03:58 PM