What Will They Find?

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    Lost contact just before they reach the lake, just before they need to winterise, water that could hold 15 million year old life that may have evolved into something new?

    Did you find this on the Sci Fi channel again Dim?
     
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    I've been following this story for a while now on another forum ... the russians should have broken through now, as they only had a few meters to drill a few days ago .... now here is 'silence/media blackout'?

    searched google to find a video to post here ... that video is old, but explains part of what we are looking at

    this is what I am more interested in (the magnetic anomalty) ... even Al Gore is there?:

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    The most intriguing news coming out of Antarctica before the news blackout had to do with the discovery of an extremely powerful “magnetic anomaly” located in the northern end of the lake’s coast. This discovery gave rise to much speculation and comparisons with the fictional TMA-1 (Tycho Magnetic Anomaly-1) in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, and John Carpenter’s 1982 movie, “The Thing”

    The electronic newspaper Antarctic Sun (Polar.org Content Has Moved), which soon became the main source of information on the Lake Vostok magnetic anomaly, stated that during the initial flight of the SOAR (Support Office for Aero-physical Research), aimed at conducting magnetic resonance imaging over the area, the magnetometer recorded an increase of 1,000 nanoteslas beyond the 60,000 nanoteslas which characterized the Vostok Station. Scientists had expected to find magnetic anomalies in the range of 500 to 600 nanoteslas in areas where volcanic material could be located, but the ranges encountered were simply startling.

    “This anomaly is so large that it cannot be the product of a daily change in the magnetic field,” stated Michael Studinger, one of the researchers involved in the mapping endeavor.

    Also significant was the sheer size of the anomaly: 65 by 46 square miles. According to the mission’s geological team, the anomaly’s size and severity pointed to the fact that geological changes had taken place under the lake, suggesting the possibility that it was a place where “the earth’s crust was thinner.”

    Professor DeLaurier’s paper discussed the existence of a structure so vast that it defied imagination—a quasi-cylindrical loaf of an object measuring 65 miles long by 65 miles thick at a staggering depth of 80 miles.

    The huge structure had been detected by seismic equipment located at Alert, one of the U.S.-Canadian Distant Early Warning (DEW) stations in the Arctic wilderness. Studies showed that the object, which straddled the earth’s mantle and crust, was the source of some sort of disturbance—similar to the situation encountered at Lake Vostok 30-odd years later—affecting the magnetic field at the Alert facility and “inducing a strong flow of electricity.”

    Official sources have not provided much additional information regarding the mysterious Antarctic lake, and the controversy rages on across the Internet, while hundreds of different opinions clash over the nature of the goings-on at this remote location…
     
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    Aah,

    Probably only Aliens then.
     
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        They actually did break through and opened a Pandoras Box All hell let loose and they were eaten by Alien to us lifeforms, which are now rampant across the world Do not sleep in your beds tonight

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          Fox Flub: Russian Vostok Lake Scientists Safe

          Russian team trying to uncover Antarctica's Lake Vostok 'Doing something that has never been done before.'

          By JASON KOEBLER
          February 3, 2012 RSS Feed Print
          The team of Russian scientists trying to uncover the prehistoric Lake Vostok miles beneath a surface of Antarctic ice are not lost, according to American Antarctic explorer John Priscu.

          "I can assure you that they are not lost or out of contact," he wrote in an email. "I never said the Russians were lost."

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          Yeah!

          "After decades of drilling , Russian scientists have finally managed to pierce through Antarctica’s ice sheet to reveal the secrets of a unique sub-glacial lake, Vostok, that has been sealed there for the past 20 million years, a scientific source said on Monday.
          “Yesterday, our scientists stopped drilling at the depth of 3,768 meters and reached the surface of the sub-glacial lake,” the source said.
          Explorers hope Lake Vostok, which is the largest of Antarctica's buried network of icebound lakes and also one of the largest lakes in the world, could reveal new forms of life and show how life evolved before the ice age."

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            Is this from the same source that claimed to have found a B 52 Bomber on the Moon?
             
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              Yep it's from the people who write that magazine which is hand delivered by lord lucan riding shergar on his way to the popes wedding (I got to finally use that quote ziggy:loll:)
               
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              Darn that media blackout.:)

              BBC News - Race to drill into Antarctic lake
               
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