Their radio silence has chilling echoes of classic horror film The Thing, where scientists dig up a buried spacecraft in the Antarctic ice, only to unleash an extraterrestrial horror within.
Geothermal heat under the ice keeps the lake liquid, and its conditions are often described as 'alien' because they are thought to be akin to the subterranean lakes on Jupiter's moon Europa.
The water inside the lake will have had no contact with man-made pollutants or Earthly life forms for millions of years.
1 posted on
02/04/2012 5:14:47 PM PST by
PJ-Comix
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High pressure on the water. Drill head bursts spraying water. Temp -40 f. Popsicle scientists.
Just a thought.
2 posted on
02/04/2012 5:20:05 PM PST by
JimSEA
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Good morning, comrades.
3 posted on
02/04/2012 5:20:46 PM PST by
katana
(Just my opinions)
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I’m not thinking aliens. I’m thinking DINOSAURS.
4 posted on
02/04/2012 5:20:46 PM PST by
Argus
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Those temperatures must be Fahrenheit(F) not Centigrade(C)..
5 posted on
02/04/2012 5:24:45 PM PST by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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Oy! Prayers up. Cold sucks.
/johnny
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Just taking a shot in the dark here and saying ancient frozen aliens.
7 posted on
02/04/2012 5:25:40 PM PST by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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Prayers up. God help them.
11 posted on
02/04/2012 5:30:00 PM PST by
NakedRampage
(Puttin' the "stud" in Bible study)
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I’ll admit I’m stupid.
Why aren’t they doing this during the summer?
(I’m afraid I just asked the equivalent of “Why don’t we travel to the sun at night?”)
13 posted on
02/04/2012 5:33:19 PM PST by
Larry Lucido
(My doctor told me to curtail my Walpoling activities.)
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15 posted on
02/04/2012 5:34:27 PM PST by
I see my hands
(The old sod ne'er shall be forgot.)
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"eyup, first thing I thought
16 posted on
02/04/2012 5:35:07 PM PST by
Doogle
(((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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conditions of up to minus 66CThat's some serious shrinkage right there.
33 posted on
02/04/2012 5:47:56 PM PST by
Semper911
(When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
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Last line of story: “Former Vice President Al Gore is currently on an unrelated expedition near the Weddell Sea with Virgin magnate Richard Branson, filmmaker James Cameron and dozens of others.”
One: God only knows what role the Abominable Goreman might have played in the Russian scientist mystery.
Two: Beyond all that, how ineffably stupid must Cameron, Branson et al. actually be to be stuck on a South Pole expedition with that stupid boring lying bloated gaseous bag of s-—?
Heaven help us all with men like that in positions of influence.
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C'mon people, let's be rational. They've obviously found the entrance to hollow earth and are relaxing in a tropical paradise.
37 posted on
02/04/2012 5:55:29 PM PST by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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God be with these men.
This terrifies me. I just thought of that movie “The Thing” with Kurt Russell and it gave me the chills.
I hope they are okay.
39 posted on
02/04/2012 6:02:03 PM PST by
mardi59
( Newt brings hope, and CHANGE is coming. 2012)
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“Winter proper” in the Southern Hemisphere would begin in late June, no?
I think they’re just talking about this storm. Even the summers in Antarctica are frighteningly frigid.
Scientist-sicles. You’d think they’d keep constantly on the radio or something.
40 posted on
02/04/2012 6:02:29 PM PST by
HiTech RedNeck
(Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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51 posted on
02/04/2012 6:51:58 PM PST by
Jim Noble
("The Germans: At your feet, or at your throat" - Winston Churchill)
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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.
Sounds like a sentence out of an H.P. Lovecraft story.
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Hopefully their communications system is just broken. I really hope they arent’ in a room drinking vodka and looking at eeach other waiting to see who turns into an alien.
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The water inside the lake will have had no contact with man-made pollutants or Earthly life forms for millions of years.
NOT! Thousands maybe, not millions.
64 posted on
02/04/2012 8:17:03 PM PST by
OneVike
((Just a Christian waiting to go home) internet ID:: impeachobamanow)
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it's mid-winter here... i'd of thought it'd be mid-summer there
69 posted on
02/04/2012 8:46:07 PM PST by
Chode
(American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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