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Contact with Vostok team 'not lost'

By T.K. Randall
February 6, 2012 · Comment icon 26 comments

Image Credit: Calee Allen / NOAA
The research team have been drilling down in to the waters of an ancient freshwater lake under the ice.
Reports that contact had been lost with the team have been played down this week with some experts citing a busy work schedule as the reason for their lack of communications. The team only has a small window of opportunity left in which to complete their work due to the impending Antarctic winter that will see temperatures drop to as low as -89C.

Lake Vostok is of particular interest to scientists as it contains one of the largest bodies of fresh water in the world and has been uncontaminated by modern pollutants due to its location deep down below the Antarctic ice.
An American professor and expert of the Antarctic said he believes contact with a team of Russian scientists that has not made contact with colleagues in the U. S for seven days has merely been busy as they drill into a lake buried beneath the Antarctic ice for 20 million years.


Source: Daily Mail | Comments (26)




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Comment icon #17 Posted by Particle Noun 12 years ago
Yeah, lets just say all of these scientists need to be strapped to chairs and their blood tested in petri dishes with a hot needle before they are allowed back on the mainland.
Comment icon #18 Posted by Leftcoastgal 12 years ago
yes, another Ancient Evil messing things up, scaring people, no one ever believing them, all the same stuff... my thoughts exactly!
Comment icon #19 Posted by bison 12 years ago
Fortunately, H.P.Lovecraft and and John Campbell were writing fiction...
Comment icon #20 Posted by reggie2011 12 years ago
omg so there using kerosene to lube the hole OMG this is discusting and should be stopped immedetly before they absolutly destroy any chance for future generations to explore what is in that lake "one microbe or drop of contamination will distroy the entire lake" im absolutly shocked at this i really am
Comment icon #21 Posted by I Am Not Resisting 12 years ago
There's an episode of The X-files just like this. It's a bubonic carrying alien maggot killing everyone. I think that's the same episode I just watched last week! *X-files song plays*
Comment icon #22 Posted by keithisco 12 years ago
omg so there using kerosene to lube the hole OMG this is discusting and should be stopped immedetly before they absolutly destroy any chance for future generations to explore what is in that lake "one microbe or drop of contamination will distroy the entire lake" im absolutly shocked at this i really am Why would you say that You do know the properties of Kerosene dont you? Its specific gravity etc? Do you even understand the sheer size of this lake? Do you understand the method of extracting water from this lake??
Comment icon #23 Posted by Sundew 12 years ago
omg so there using kerosene to lube the hole OMG this is discusting and should be stopped immedetly before they absolutly destroy any chance for future generations to explore what is in that lake "one microbe or drop of contamination will distroy the entire lake" im absolutly shocked at this i really am So how do you think "future generations" will get down to the water? Teleport in? The best scientists can do is sterilize their equipment and proceed with caution. Whatever they are using for lubrication most or all of it will likely be forced upward into the drill shaft by the pressure of tons... [More]
Comment icon #24 Posted by Paracelse 12 years ago
This was on cheatsheet tonight (French Time) http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2012/02/08/scientists-bore-into-antarctic-lake.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=cheatsheet_afternoon&cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bcheatsheet_afternoon&utm_term=Cheat%20Sheet
Comment icon #25 Posted by Abramelin 12 years ago
A very informative site about Lake Vostok and the research done there: http://earthsci.org/education/Lake_Vostok/vostok.html
Comment icon #26 Posted by Spock_the_Future 12 years ago
Latest update that I found Latest news


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