Russian team prepares to penetrate Lake Vostok

wired ^ | 07 January 11 | Duncan Geere

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Or the entire planet will deflate and fizzle like putting a hole in a giant balloon.

[Army Air Corps]

Haven’t they been “preparing to penetrate” for several years?

[null and void]

“Who goes there?” John W. Campbell, Jr. 1938 (under the pen name Don A. Stuart).

You might know it better from the movies made from it:

The Thing from Another World (1951, Howard Hawks)
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter).

[americanophile]

This has been a controversey for some time because the moment it’s penetrated, it becomes contaminated. They’ve been trying to work out how best to examine it for a while. It’s too bad the Russians are in charge, because I’m sure it will be a messy project.

[Bellflower]

It's also oligotropic, meaning that it's supersaturated with oxygen

And why is that, I wonder.

[Bellflower]

Why not just wait a few years for it to thaw on it's own. It shouldn't be long according to global warming adherents.

[Bellflower]

There is what they call a ‘magnetic anomaly’ on one end of that lake i.e. something which pegs aircraft magnetometers. The thing which normally does that is a city. That is, a modern city made of concrete and steel...

Any ideas as to what could be causing the anomaly?

[Bellflower]

What kind of camera will they put on the lance as what do they hope to see in blackness unless they also are able to light the area up?

[wendy1946]

No. But it’s another one of those things where they’re inviting conspiracy theories by not having gotten into the thing a decade ago.

[Cold Heart]

I’ve seen well studied seamounts swing the magnetic compass pretty hard.

[Osage Orange]

Sounds like a joke in there somewhere...............

[SunkenCiv]

Not exactly tropical, is this what you meant though?

[UCANSEE2]

What I meant to convey, and screwed up, was that it showed signs of having been a tropical environment before it was covered with ice.