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20 million year old antarctic lake finally reached.....

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mcnamarskiez
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dope

Feb 6 2012 6:47PM
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PJS.
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*scrolled down, did not see any pictures of woolly mammoths or dinosaurs, and exited out*
Feb 6 2012 6:49PM
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PeteySkeety
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Thirty years drilling? my god..
Feb 6 2012 6:50PM
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KravtZ
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thats pretty dam sick. cant wait to see what is down there. Those scientists better drink that water. It must taste so dam fresh i can't even think about how fresh it is
Feb 6 2012 6:50PM
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feihlination
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sick. sounds like a movie with monsters and shit down there
Feb 6 2012 6:50PM
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Steve-Brown
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threads for later.
Feb 6 2012 6:50PM
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Montville57
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30 years and hundreds of thousand of dollars for water and minerals... Cool
Feb 6 2012 6:52PM
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feihlination
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nice attitude.
Feb 6 2012 6:54PM
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Aenigma
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Your reading comprehension is a bit low.

This article's probably more credible, but it says about the same thing: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/02/120206-russia-lake-vostok-antarctica-drilling-science-glacier/

I'm not huge into science, but I've been reading/watching stuff about Lake Vostok for about a year now just because it is something totally unprecedented...I'm really interested to hear what they find.
Feb 6 2012 7:03PM
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GORILLA.
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semi related:

i was looking through an atlas at school today and saw a political map of antarctica. the UK, argentina and chile all own the same part. weird huh?
Feb 6 2012 8:08PM
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The_Lord_of_Love
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REPOST
Feb 6 2012 8:10PM
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DW.
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twice as clean as double distilled water dun blown my mind. I'm not really sure that I understand the gravity of this though, what will be so earth shattering about them potentially finding life?
Feb 6 2012 8:27PM
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ChocolateMilk.
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Pretty intresting.
Can't wait to see what they find.
Feb 6 2012 8:28PM
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soulskier
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damn, that's insanely cool
Feb 6 2012 8:31PM
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[evan]
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God damnit there had better be some fucking aliens down there
Feb 6 2012 8:32PM
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PopsicleStand
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Fascinating. I do have a schoolboy part of me that thinks there could be monsters down there though.
Feb 6 2012 8:32PM
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Mr.Turtle
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Holy shit, it says the lake is the same size as lake ontario
Feb 6 2012 8:36PM
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DR.SHRED
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they should bottle that water in air tight containers and sell it$$$$
Feb 6 2012 8:38PM
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chicken
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uh... and some of the most important data for paleoclimatology.
Feb 6 2012 8:42PM
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geteducated
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hopefully they can get some data from the lake before winter takes hold. if they can find arsenic eating bacteria, i would place my bets on there being organisms down there.

this whole thing is basically like drilling on the moon. it's really cool stuff.
Feb 6 2012 8:49PM
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hoodratz47
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this reminds me of the story (i cannot remember the name) about how they find a molecule that makes all the worlds fresh water into ice.
Feb 6 2012 8:56PM
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Parks.
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Good god
Feb 6 2012 8:58PM
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Davy.Crockett
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i hope theres some transformers down there...
Feb 6 2012 9:00PM
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Montville57
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That is yet to be determined.
Feb 6 2012 9:09PM
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geteducated
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well that has been assured more or less. the ice cores alone during the drilling process is invaluable data that assists us with forming knowledge about what the earths climate was like when glaciers on antarctica were in their infancy. we're talking more than a million years.
Feb 6 2012 9:14PM
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Milksteak
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You are ignorant as fuck..
Feb 6 2012 9:26PM
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Abu_Hajaar
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Me too that would be sick
Feb 6 2012 9:38PM
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Montville57
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Prove that
Feb 6 2012 9:42PM
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matthew.
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"twice cleaner than distilled water"

id drop some cash for a liter bottle
Feb 6 2012 9:49PM
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Holte
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Nothing fresher than water that's been sitting stagnant for 20 million years.
Feb 6 2012 9:51PM
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KRASHED
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If life is found in Lake Vostok it yields evidence that life could exist under the ice covered surface of Europa. This would be ground breaking news.
Feb 6 2012 9:57PM
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chicken
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Click for larger image
Feb 6 2012 10:01PM
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bakedpow
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Soooo sick, that be some crazy clear water.
Feb 6 2012 10:08PM
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MADDECENT
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Damn this is crazy if they find life that will mean...a lot
Feb 6 2012 10:15PM
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Montville57
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I could have made that
Feb 6 2012 10:22PM
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ForeverYung
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Were not alone...
Feb 6 2012 10:27PM
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