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Silence shrouds Antarctic dig (Still No Contact From Russian Scientists at Lake Vostok Site)
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| February 5, 2012
Posted on 02/05/2012 7:19:42 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: sodpoodle
2.4 miles is deep, not quite 25 miles though.
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posted on
02/05/2012 7:37:41 AM PST
by
bitterohiogunclinger
(Proudly casting a heavy carbon footprint as I clean my guns ---)
To: jjotto
I just checked the WeatherUnderground site and this is their ominous statement in red:
Updated 3 hr 20 min 45 sec ago - This station is not reporting!
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posted on
02/05/2012 7:39:04 AM PST
by
PJ-Comix
("Now I am become Death, destroyer of oysters" ---from the Buffetvad Gita)
To: Renegade; PJ-Comix
I cant help but thinking of that sound from the remake of The ThingMake fun , if you wish, but remember that they not only discovered a HUGE underground lake, but there is also a LARGE MAGNETIC ANOMALY right below that entire area.
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posted on
02/05/2012 7:40:50 AM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: Beelzebubba
This year, due to global warming/climate change, the temperature rose by 40 degrees and they had to swim out.
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posted on
02/05/2012 7:41:20 AM PST
by
Ironfocus
(Unseat the Looter-in-Chief)
To: PJ-Comix
as Antarctica's deadly winter draws near. Uhhh, doesn't winter start on June 21?
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posted on
02/05/2012 7:41:20 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: PJ-Comix
I'm thinking that the most realistic theory so far presented is that they drilled through to the under the ice lake and the water pressure sent a tower of water up that covered the scientists and froze them like human Popsicles.
The first thought I had was of some out-gassing episode, such as what happened at a couple of lakes in Africa. If a lake is isolated from the atmosphere that long, there could be a huge amount of CO2 dissolved in the water from subterranean sources. Remove the pressure and pop goes the CO2 and everyone is asphyxiated and then frozen like human Popsicles.
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posted on
02/05/2012 7:43:48 AM PST
by
aruanan
To: UCANSEE2
“but there is also a LARGE MAGNETIC ANOMALY right below that entire area.”
That’s probably why they’re interested.
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posted on
02/05/2012 7:46:49 AM PST
by
dljordan
("Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.")
To: aruanan
Isn’t there some orbiting satellite that can bring us photos of the Lake Vostok area? Perhaps we can see if there was flooding and subsequent freezing there.
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posted on
02/05/2012 7:47:14 AM PST
by
PJ-Comix
("Now I am become Death, destroyer of oysters" ---from the Buffetvad Gita)
To: Notforprophet
Don’t you hate when that happens?
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posted on
02/05/2012 7:47:42 AM PST
by
TribalPrincess2U
(NOT VOTING gets 0bamao re-elected. Lets Newter the RINOS, then the Blank.)
To: PJ-Comix
I'm thinking that the most realistic theory so far presented is that they drilled through to the under the ice lake and the water pressure sent a tower of water up that covered the scientists and froze them like human Popsicles.
For instance, CO2 in
Lake Nyos and methane in
Lake Tanganyika.
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posted on
02/05/2012 7:50:24 AM PST
by
aruanan
To: GQuagmire
Everything links this story to THE THING (the new version, the older version (with Kurt Russell) , the Older,older version, and the original book story “WHO GOES THERE”.
None of this is really correct. There was a movie, although I don’t remember the name of it at this time, that depicted scientists who were drilling into an underground lake at Vostok, and who released some unknown germ/life form. Several scientists had gotten stuck at the station due to the weather because one scientist had gotten very sick and could not be transported out.
The Russian scientists (the real ones) have been working on this dig for a long time, and there has always been a sort of secrecy going on with it, and there is a HUGE MAGNETIC ANOMALY associated with that area, as well as the underground lake. There were stories about it here on FR years ago.
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posted on
02/05/2012 7:51:48 AM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: sodpoodle
Wouldn’t you love it if FR allowed you to edit posts after you click the Post button?
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posted on
02/05/2012 7:54:29 AM PST
by
DManA
(to)
To: DonaldC
Or unleash some long dormant disease.So... you saw that movie too? What was the name. And it wasn't the "THE THING" movies.
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posted on
02/05/2012 7:55:09 AM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: PJ-Comix
Check out the part regarding Lake Vostok
HERE
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posted on
02/05/2012 7:56:35 AM PST
by
aruanan
To: PJ-Comix
Its entirely possible that they’re fine but have lost communications for some reason. They could be making their way back to civilization as we speak.
Its odd to realize that there are still places on the surface of the earth that we can’t get to easily.
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posted on
02/05/2012 7:57:13 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: PJ-Comix
How about this idea? Another post talked about a “large magnetic anomaly” that and the fact that there’s liquid water there tells me there is magma down there. Where there’s magma there are gasses.
They opened up a hole and suffocating gasses came out and killed them in seconds.
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posted on
02/05/2012 7:58:28 AM PST
by
DManA
(to)
To: PJ-Comix
Sounds like the plot of a horror movie.
I’m guessing the expedition has been wiped out by now.
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posted on
02/05/2012 7:59:37 AM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: DManA
****Wouldnt you love it if FR allowed you to edit posts after you click the Post button?****
That would take all the fun out of FR for the ‘perfessers’
LOL!!!!
(p.s. when I post brilliant logic - the responses are quite sparse;)
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posted on
02/05/2012 8:03:17 AM PST
by
sodpoodle
( Newt - God has tested him for a reason...... to celebrate life and embrace the future.)
To: PJ-Comix
Yup. Temps are starting to drop and they will drop quickly. One of the best sites for info on the Antarctic is
A-Net Station run by what appears to be an old European,hippie guy, George Maat. ( I wanted to find the pic of him standing outside in his underwear at 40 below but this will have to do.
That means he carries all the European, enviro-whacko views of things but I'll give him credit for setting up one of the very first web based radio stations and blogs. He's provided a lot of info over the years.
On his page there are "live" pics from the South Pole although you have to search around a bit to get the exact one I'm thinking of. His site is not surprisingly a bit cluttered and confusing. Maybe it's the cold or maybe too much hippieness, I don't know.
Here's a link to one of the "live" shots on his page.
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posted on
02/05/2012 8:03:59 AM PST
by
prisoner6
(Right Wing Nuts bolt The Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
To: muawiyah
Eventually someone is going to drill a hole through something and tap into the innards of an intergalactic space cruiser.
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I have had the same thought for decades. I fear that if I where financially well of, I would be known as that crazy old man who drills holes looking for one.
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posted on
02/05/2012 8:05:15 AM PST
by
W. W. SMITH
(Obama is Romney lite)
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