Fascinating:
The scientific community is holding its breath for a team of Russian scientists that has been out of contact with colleagues in the U.S for six days, as they drill into a lake buried beneath the Antarctic ice for 20 million years. They have to evacuate their station by Tuesday – when winter proper kicks in and temperatures start to drop to an inhospitable minus 90C. The scientists are currently battling conditions of up to minus 66C at Lake Vostok as they raced to drill into a lake buried two miles beneath the ice before the weather closed in. They were hoping water in the lake, the most inhospitable region of the planet, would reveal more about ancient life on our planet – but they have fallen silent just days before the deadly winter is due to begin…
Read the entire article here: World holds its breath for Russian scientists drilling in Antarctic – as they try to find ‘alien’ underground lake before Tuesday ‘date of no return’
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Ahh, this is even more compelling after that mysterious “Bloop” was recorded very near our Ancient Overlord Cthluhu’s resting place! Could it be that The Most Ancient One’s 2012 campaign is just about to start? 😀
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I’ve long been fascinated by stories of exploration and survival in the polar regions. Let’s hope these scientists are okay, and that whatever they find down there is worth the struggle.
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http://bit.ly/yxmHjd useful illustration 🙂
Maybe there’s a leviathan down there
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I hope something and amazing DID happen. Just not in a bad way.
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Blind, frozen, and irreversibly insane. “What’s that piping sound?” Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!
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Cool connection to “The Mountains of Madness” but I do hope that the team is found safe and sound. That would be a terrible way to die, blind and freezing.
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