Posted on 06/14/2022 6:22:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The scientists found the secret subterranean habitat tucked away beneath the Larsen Ice Shelf — a massive, floating sheet of ice attached to the eastern coast of the Antarctic peninsula that famously birthed the world's largest iceberg in 2021. Satellite photos showed an unusual groove in the ice shelf close to where it met with the land, and researchers identified the peculiar feature as a subsurface river, which they described in a statement(opens in new tab). The team drilled down around 1,640 feet (500 meters) below the ice's surface using a powerful hot-water hose to reach the underground chamber.
When the researchers sent a camera down through the icy tunnel and into the cavern, hundreds of tiny, blurry flecks in the water obscured the video feed. Initially, the team thought their equipment was faulty. But after refocusing the camera, they realized that the lens was being swarmed by tiny crustaceans known as amphipods. This caught the team off guard, as they had not expected to find any type of life this far below the icy surface.
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But they can tell us Global Warming has begun and we only have 10 years to live.
And there is life on Europa.
Patrick Wayne was in ‘The People That Time Forgot’, the sequel to Mcclure’s film where he went to rescue him.
Woot.... Ice fishing!
Poor critters must be freezing.
“Those effects were not all that special.”
They were, but more in a short-bus kind of way.
That might be my favorite one. Patrick Wayne and Doug McClure in the same movie... Heck, that makes it a bona fide film! 70s sci-fi was great stuff. They had to tell a compelling story because they didn’t have CGI.
Absolutely, ya don’t Mitt Romney spends ALL his free time living under the Skinwalker Ranch, do you?
‘Life will find a way.’
You’re correct. I saw both films at the local drive-in theater when they came out. Another good one with McClure was “At The Earth’s Core” with Peter Cushing and that good looking babe, Caroline Munro.
Science is great job ... there's always something new to discover.
“good looking babe, Caroline Munro”
Those films always had a good chance of hot babes in fur bikinis. Now, we get same sex cartoons kissing in Disney movies. Ugh.
You got that right. All those Hammer Films actresses we’re hot. Nothing was fake about them. What great times back then.
scampi!
There was at least one old show like this:
Ancient Aliens Season 14 Episode 1 | HISTORY Channelhttps://www.history.com › shows › season-14 › episode-1
May 31, 2019 — Has Antarctica served as a home base for extraterrestrial visitors to Earth for thousands of years? As human exploration of the frozen ...
Very true.
this was the theme of a John Sanford novel too - on a somewhat grander scale.
I remember watching Lon Chaney in the mid-70s as a child when the only special effects were makeup and good imagination.
The television was also black & white.
Attempt no landings there.
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