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Started by Adios, January 28, 2011, 03:57:27 PM

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Adios

January 28, 2011, 03:57:27 PM
This could be the most dangerous and exiting discover in history. Who knows what they will find in this lake.

With only about 50m left to drill, time is running out for the Russian scientists hoping to drill into Vostok - the world's most enigmatic lake.
Vostok is a sub-glacial lake in Antarctica, hidden some 4,000m (13,000ft) beneath the ice sheet.
With the Antarctic summer almost over, temperatures will soon begin to plummet; they can go as low as -80C.
Scientists will leave the remote base on 6 February, when conditions are still mild enough for a plane to land.
The team has been drilling non-stop for weeks.
"It's like working on an alien planet where no one has been before," Valery Lukin, the deputy head of Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) in St Petersburg, which oversees the project, told BBC News.
"We don't know what awaits us down there," he said, adding that personnel at the station have been working shifts, drilling 24 hours a day.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12275979

Sister Fracture

#1
January 28, 2011, 03:59:32 PM
I thought everyone knew that Aliens and Predators lived down there.
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Don Coyote

#2
January 28, 2011, 04:00:08 PM
And lo didst the Russkies break the 6th seal.


That is pretty cool though.

Sister Fracture

#3
January 28, 2011, 04:02:05 PM
We're gonna need some extra seals, because we've still got a year and we're alredy to 6.
Roaring Berserkery Bunny of the North End™

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Adios

#4
January 28, 2011, 04:04:55 PM
I doubt if any life could have survived, but if any remains are located then they should be very well preserved, complete with microbes and viruses we know nothing about. Let's hope their controls are very tight indeed.

LMNO

#5
January 28, 2011, 04:07:07 PM
Quote from: Sister Fracture on January 28, 2011, 04:02:05 PM
We're gonna need some extra seals, because we've still got a year and we're alredy to 6.

Why not just bump it to 23?

Sister Fracture

#6
January 28, 2011, 04:08:39 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD on January 28, 2011, 04:07:07 PM
Quote from: Sister Fracture on January 28, 2011, 04:02:05 PM
We're gonna need some extra seals, because we've still got a year and we're alredy to 6.

Why not just bump it to 23?

There's a thought. :lol:
Roaring Berserkery Bunny of the North End™

A Tucsonite is like a Christian in several important ways.  For one thing, they believe what they say about their god in the most literal, straightfaced way possible.  For another, they both know their god can hear them.  The difference between the two, however, is quite vast in terms of their relationship with their god; Christians believe in His benevolence, but Tucsonites KNOW of The City's spite and hate.

The Good Reverend Roger

#7
January 28, 2011, 05:50:09 PM
I have high hopes for this project.

Specifically killer viruses, or DEROS/Nazi Hell Creatures from the Hollow Earth, that will boil out of the shaft, consume the team, and then work their way North.
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Don Coyote

#8
January 28, 2011, 05:52:55 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2011, 05:50:09 PM
I have high hopes for this project.

Specifically killer viruses, or DEROS/Nazi Hell Creatures from the Hollow Earth, that will boil out of the shaft, consume the team, and then work their way North.

They wake up some Old Ones and they are PISSED from being woken up in the middle of their Scarlett Johanson spank dreams.

Adios

#9
January 28, 2011, 06:00:49 PM
They are bound to find something, the lake is estimated to be the size of Lake Ontario. I plan to follow this very close.

Don Coyote

#10
January 28, 2011, 06:17:29 PM
Quote from: Charley Brown on January 28, 2011, 06:00:49 PM
They are bound to find something, the lake is estimated to be the size of Lake Ontario. I plan to follow this very close.

All kinds of weird microbes at the least.

Adios

#11
January 28, 2011, 06:39:19 PM
Quote from: Canis latrans eques on January 28, 2011, 06:17:29 PM
Quote from: Charley Brown on January 28, 2011, 06:00:49 PM
They are bound to find something, the lake is estimated to be the size of Lake Ontario. I plan to follow this very close.

All kinds of weird microbes at the least.

Yes. If they ever find a way to actually get in the lake the possibilities are unlimited. Bodies could be perfectly preserved down there. I imagine some type of remote sterile camera will get the first peek though.

The Good Reverend Roger

#12
January 28, 2011, 06:52:29 PM
Quote from: Charley Brown on January 28, 2011, 06:39:19 PM
Quote from: Canis latrans eques on January 28, 2011, 06:17:29 PM
Quote from: Charley Brown on January 28, 2011, 06:00:49 PM
They are bound to find something, the lake is estimated to be the size of Lake Ontario. I plan to follow this very close.

All kinds of weird microbes at the least.

Yes. If they ever find a way to actually get in the lake the possibilities are unlimited. Bodies could be perfectly preserved down there. I imagine some type of remote sterile camera will get the first peek though.

They already know that there are microbes, and they know that the residence time of the water is 13,600 years, as opposed to 6 years for Lake Ontario.  They also know there are tides.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Adios

#13
January 28, 2011, 06:57:55 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2011, 06:52:29 PM
Quote from: Charley Brown on January 28, 2011, 06:39:19 PM
Quote from: Canis latrans eques on January 28, 2011, 06:17:29 PM
Quote from: Charley Brown on January 28, 2011, 06:00:49 PM
They are bound to find something, the lake is estimated to be the size of Lake Ontario. I plan to follow this very close.

All kinds of weird microbes at the least.

Yes. If they ever find a way to actually get in the lake the possibilities are unlimited. Bodies could be perfectly preserved down there. I imagine some type of remote sterile camera will get the first peek though.

They already know that there are microbes, and they know that the residence time of the water is 13,600 years, as opposed to 6 years for Lake Ontario.  They also know there are tides.

ARE WE THERE YET???

I am pretty excited about this.

The Good Reverend Roger

#14
January 28, 2011, 08:09:39 PM
Quote from: Charley Brown on January 28, 2011, 06:57:55 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 28, 2011, 06:52:29 PM
Quote from: Charley Brown on January 28, 2011, 06:39:19 PM
Quote from: Canis latrans eques on January 28, 2011, 06:17:29 PM
Quote from: Charley Brown on January 28, 2011, 06:00:49 PM
They are bound to find something, the lake is estimated to be the size of Lake Ontario. I plan to follow this very close.

All kinds of weird microbes at the least.

Yes. If they ever find a way to actually get in the lake the possibilities are unlimited. Bodies could be perfectly preserved down there. I imagine some type of remote sterile camera will get the first peek though.

They already know that there are microbes, and they know that the residence time of the water is 13,600 years, as opposed to 6 years for Lake Ontario.  They also know there are tides.

ARE WE THERE YET???

I am pretty excited about this.

No, they got that from core sampling and satellite imagery.  Hit the wikipedia page for Lake Vostok.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.
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