Posted on 02/05/2012 10:40:44 PM PST by prisoner6
An American professor and expert of the Antarctic said he believes contact with a team of Russian scientists that has not made contact with colleagues in the U.S for seven days has merely been busy as they drill into a lake buried beneath the Antarctic ice for 20 million years.
Professor John Priscu told usnews.com in an email that the crews have been working ‘round the clock’ to beat the end of Antarctic summer, which ends Tuesday. Afterwards, temperatures will fall to deadly levels.
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Even if the team was busy wouldn't a plane be on standby to remove the team? If they are leaving today or tomorrow I would think arrangements would already have been made, the team would be packing up and contact would have been made.
Well, if they're going to be at it for that long anyway, you'd think they could take time to drop an e-mail. I mean, the effort couldn't set them back more than a millennium or two.
HAH!! Thanks, I needed a good laugh! *chuckle*
...he believes contact with a team of Russian scientists that has not made contact with colleagues in the U.S for seven days has merely been busy...If not even the contact has had time to make contact, then the people must really be up against the clock.
It’s obvious from the poor writing that the pod people are spreading. It will take time for them to master our language. I might even be a pod.
Perhaps one of the Pod People would consider running on the GOP ticket? They’d have my vote!
Heck, what could go wrong?
I have a bizarre theory. If there is microbial life in that lake, it energy source would have to be heat from the earth. The thermophiles in our oceanic organisms that exist around these heat sources use sulphur in their metabolic processes instead of oxygen. The non thermophiles eat the thermophiles but use oxygen. The Thermofiles have Hydrogen Sulfide as a waste product. Hydrogen Sulfide is almost as toxic as Hydrogen Cyanide.
This hydrogen sulfide would accumulate at the top of the lake and below the miles of ice. The drilling fluid they are using is basically kerosene. Kerosene is lighter than water and thus water from the lake would rush into the drilling string and once this happens both pressure inside the drill string and the lake would be equal and in essence you have a dead well i.e. no longer flowing.
However if they drilled into high pressure gas the surface pressures would be about 4000 thousand psi. Unless they have a Blow Out Preventer on top of the well head they could be quickly overwhelmed by this toxic gas. In low concentration it has the smell of rotten eggs. In high concentration it immediately effects our sense of smell adversely. It can not be smelled in high concentrations and we do not realize we are about to die of asphyxia due to the inability of the red blood cells to carry oxygen due to the Hydrogen sulfide attaching itself the the hemoglobin in the cells. You go to sleep and die very quickly. It takes just 3 or 4 minutes to render you unconscious and death will follow very soon.
It is quite possible they were all overwhelmed by HydrogenSulfide Gas.
Nothin’ I can think of...
I love seeing the lib, namby-pamby professor get smacked by ‘the thing’ towards the end.
Wouldn’t they have been prepared for such an outcome?
That wasn’t a *Thing*, it was Marshal Dillon before he moved to Dodge City and Miss Kitty settled him down.
This guy doesn’t know jack. He is expressing his hope, but says so strongly enough to make people believe..
Well, considering they just found ten inch or bigger shrimp..
..what are the odds that they just got eaten or infected by some huge bacteria, virus, or spore?
Russian Vodka Zombies wandering the Lake Vostok area.
Pickled Drillings...
Wonder how you says “brains” in rus?
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