These Priests’ Invention Could Help Us Drill Into Icy Alien Worlds Someday
In June 1968, Karl Philberth arrived at Jarl-Joset Station, a forlorn cluster of buildings near the center of the Greenland Ice Sheet. He had come here, at age 39, to investigate an ambitious but controversial plan: to store the world’s nuclear waste deep in the ice sheets of Greenland or Antarctica.

January 24, 2015 at 05:00AM
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