Volcano discovery hints at fire below ice in Antarctica

Los Angeles Times ^ | November 17, 2013 | Geoffrey Mohan

[SunkenCiv]

Love is a b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-battl-l-l-l-l-l-l-leffield-d-d-d-d-d-d.

[GeronL]

what is that from?

[null and void]

Scandinavia and the World.

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You’ll love it.

[Ramius]

I visited the Ice Caves on Mt Rainier many years ago before they last closed up. It was spectacular. Blue cathedrals. It was really breathtaking.

Under a few miles of Antarctic ice there would likely be no light getting through... But who knows? Old, hard ice does tend to get clearer as it gets older... Maybe there are conditions that let some, if even very
Iittle, illumination get through? Dunno.

[Redcitizen]

YOU ROCK! \m/ ^_^ \m/

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This will turn the AGW/Climate change debate upside down.

[Star Traveler]

I was in some Mt. Rainier ice caves back in 1962. I remember walking along the edge of the river running through it (and it was running fast) - and I knew no one would ever find me again, if I slipped and fell in. And remember it was all slippery ice inside there - and slipping and falling was more probable than not.

And one time I was on the Athabasca Glacier in Canada, where we took one of those big snowcats out onto the ice. The guide said to not wander very far, because if we slipped down into one of those big cracks in the ice - no one would find us for a thousand years. Hoo-boy!

[kinsman redeemer]

There’s a similar unnatural feature at the South Pole. It was formed from the station effluent. Frozen and strangely beautiful.

[PapaBear3625]

Under a few miles of Antarctic ice there would likely be no light getting through... But who knows? Old, hard ice does tend to get clearer as it gets older... Maybe there are conditions that let some, if even very Iittle, illumination get through? Dunno.

No light = no photosynthesis = oxygen eventually gets used up. So you would wind up with anaerobic bacteria plus whatever could live off the emissions from volcanic vents. Any multi-cellular life which evolved in that environment would be exceedingly different.

[Conan the Librarian]

He ran into giant Penguins there too.

“Kowalski, options!

Well Skipper, let’s just step on the humans and take over the whole world”

[Conan the Librarian]

No wait! That was Lovecraft.

[Hot Tabasco]

I’m also curious to see what sorts of critters might be living in that huge lake that’s been cut off from the rest of the world for millions of years, covered by miles of ice.

Once the word gets out that there's jumbo perch down there, it'll be swarming with ice fishermen and their gas powered augers.......

[MUDDOG]

Yes, Lovecraft, "At the Mountains of Madness." I'm glad he got recognized by the Library of America.

You can update Ben Franklin's saying to be, "Those who would give up Liberty for Healthcare, have Neither."