I wanted to share with you this entertaining video about IceCube (you know, the neutrino observatory that I talked about on a previous post.)
The author of the video is Casey O’Hara, a high school teacher from California that in a matter of days will be travelling to the South Pole to join the IceCube people stationed there. Mr. O’Hara is involved in PolarTREC, an NSF-funded program that provides polar research experiences for teachers; you can get more details about his trip from this link.
Although the toy polar explorer seemed happy while drilling the ice and installing the string with phototubes, I’ve heard from the people that actually do this stuff that it’s a bit more difficult than what it seems 
As a proof, take a look at this video of the deployment of one string into the 2.5 km-deep ice hole.
This is about the best quickie explanation of IceCube I have seen, and I have seen a few. Good job!
The toy is a LEGO, not Playmobil.
Hi Frances! Yes, it is a very good explanation indeed, the visuals are always very helpful. I updated the title of the post
Nice job. Entertaining and great explaination of IceCube. My 10-year-old son now wants to follow your expedition now. You had him at the Lego character…..
Are you going to blog during your trek?
Hi! Thanks for the comments, I’ll forward them to Casey who did the video. Tona, you can make your son check out some of the pictures we have from the South Pole, I hope he enjoys them as well:
http://gallery.icecube.wisc.edu/external/main.php
About Casey: he’s keeping a blog of his trip, the last entry is here: http://polartrec.com/node/10972 . Unfortunately, there’s apparently no way to leave comments.
I’m happy I found this blog. Thank you for sharing with us.