Not Dune as in Arrakis, DUNE as in Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment

The SPICE must flow

(Small Particles Inside the Crust of the Earth)

Are you absolutely sure there is no Arrakis involved in the choosing of that acronym?

I firmly believe somebody is still giggling about the choice of acronym they managed to get approval for.

Maybe some Arrak?

> Dune Scientists from Fermilab

read that three times

May their prototype detector never chip and shatter.

The title would be better if the original acronym capitalization was kept. "DUNE" not "Dune". I clicked through hoping to find out about a collaboration between geomorphologists and particle physicists. Still interesting but felt like a clickbait title.

Did the automatic headline mangler change "DUNE" the acronym for "Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment" to "Dune" the name of a heap of sand and also the nickname of a planet in a fictional universe?

That's what it's been dune

Yes.

I really hope someone on the team has Atreides as a last name.