Posted on 02/09/2012 7:33:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
As my colleague David M. Herszenhorn reports, scientists are poised to take some highly anticipated samples from a deep subglacial lake in Antarctica, saying on Wednesday that they had succeeded in boring through more than two miles of ice.
The state-financed broadcaster Russia Today posted video of the researchers at the frigid Antarctic outpost, including clips of them snowmobiling around the endless expanse of ice and snow and watching supply planes land.
What evolutionary secrets Lake Vostok named after the Russian research station above it may hold after being sealed under ice for millions of years has tantalized scientists who hope to find evidence of previously unknown forms of life.
Probing the mysterious depths of earth has also fascinated casual observers, some of whom gravitated toward more outlandish theories about what may be discovered in the ancient lake, including alien life forms or Hitlers remains.
That last theory, based on sketchy rumors of a Nazi base on the frozen continent, received an unlikely boost this week from Russias state-run news service, Ria Novosti, which said that the scientific mission had revived an old theory saying that German Nazis may have built a secret base at Lake Vostok as early as the 1930s.
The state news report then delved deeper into the realm of Nazi conspiracy theory, observing without any evidence that it was also rumored that later the submarine U-977 delivered the remains of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun to Antarctica for DNA cloning purposes.
Bloggers pointed to other rumors of a Nazi base in a vast northern area of Antarctica known as Queen Mauds Land (or Dronning Maud Land in Norwegian), as the Washington Post blogger Elizabeth Flock observed. Even so, the Moscow Times and others picked up the reported rumors without providing any new evidence or
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Yeah, themselves and their friends with whom they surround themselves!
I hate Illinois Nazis. Want to go for a drive?
I get shotgun.......:o)
A GREAT movie.
Or these:
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