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Scientists Race To Breach Anarctica's Lake Vostok
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| Saturday, 5 February 2011, 07:48 CST
Posted on 02/05/2011 11:48:03 AM PST by pillut48
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This is cool! Wonder if they'll find the Loch Ness Monster's southern cousins down there...
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posted on
02/05/2011 11:48:04 AM PST
by
pillut48
To: pillut48
I wanna drink some of it.
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posted on
02/05/2011 11:50:03 AM PST
by
youngidiot
(Don't let the name fool ya, toots.)
To: pillut48
Or some really bad-a$$ bacteria!
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02/05/2011 11:52:31 AM PST
by
Mamzelle
To: pillut48
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posted on
02/05/2011 11:54:08 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(BO + MB = BOMB -- The One will make sure they get one.)
To: pillut48
They are talking about using the experience of exploring this lake to explore one of Jupiter’s moons. Titan or Europa, not sure which one. Very cool!
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02/05/2011 11:54:15 AM PST
by
aliquando
(A Scout is T, L, H, F, C, K, O, C, T, B, C, and R.)
To: pillut48
“We don’t know what we’ll find,” Valery Lukin of Russia’s Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) in St Petersburg, which oversees the expedition, told Reuters.”
Definitely not vodka, so you may want to stop it right now.
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posted on
02/05/2011 11:54:15 AM PST
by
mewykwistmas
("Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ")
To: pillut48
“This is cool! Wonder if they’ll find the Loch Ness Monster’s southern cousins down there... “
Got to love a country that is still doing scientific exploration - rather than retreating to debt and self-destruction.
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posted on
02/05/2011 11:54:25 AM PST
by
BobL
(PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
To: pillut48
Who Goes There?
The Thing [From Another Planet]
[John Carpenter’s] The Thing
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posted on
02/05/2011 11:54:43 AM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 746 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: pillut48
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posted on
02/05/2011 11:55:41 AM PST
by
NCjim
(Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.)
To: pillut48
I recall reading about this several years ago. There was a moratorium placed on accessing the lake due to the likelihood of contamination. Maybe the contamination issue has been resolved.
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posted on
02/05/2011 11:55:48 AM PST
by
Islander7
(There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
To: pillut48
I hope they can do this without contaminating it.
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02/05/2011 11:57:17 AM PST
by
Uriah_lost
(Is there no balm in Gilead?....)
To: pillut48
Finally we’ll find out where Jimmy Hoffa is buried!
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02/05/2011 11:57:23 AM PST
by
43north
(BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
To: Uriah_lost
Why? Then no one will use it anymore?
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02/05/2011 11:59:16 AM PST
by
IrishCatholic
(No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
To: Islander7
“I recall reading about this several years ago. There was a moratorium placed on accessing the lake due to the likelihood of contamination. Maybe the contamination issue has been resolved.”
I read that too, more recently. They stopped themselves until they it was clear that they were not going to contaminate - that’s why the race now. Impressive project from a country that understands Islam.
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02/05/2011 11:59:31 AM PST
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BobL
(PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
To: pillut48
Scientists are hoping the lake will reveal new forms of life and show how life evolved may have evolved in the times before the ice age. The lake could also offer scientists a glimpse of what conditions exist for life in similar extremes on Mars and Jupiter’s moon Europa.Let's assume they're doing the whole nine yards of isolation, bio-hazard, etc of the water samples. . . Interesting though. A whole new world.
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02/05/2011 12:03:34 PM PST
by
Art in Idaho
(Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.)
To: pillut48
...buried 12,000 feet beneath the polar ice cap... Ummmm. Anybody seen Algore? Da boy has some 'splainin' to do.
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02/05/2011 12:06:34 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(ObamaCare funds 16,000 new tax collectors but no new doctors. Now that's what I call "green" jobs.)
To: pillut48
Wasn’t there a sci-fi book written about this very thing (no, not “The Thing”). It also mentioned bottling the water and selling it for some outrages amount - there was some nasty bacteria in it.
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02/05/2011 12:08:49 PM PST
by
ReverendJames
(Only A Painter Or A Liberal Can Change Black To White)
To: pillut48
“only a bit left to go.”
No pun intended.
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posted on
02/05/2011 12:18:15 PM PST
by
wolficatZ
(Somebody once wrote "Revenge is a dish that has to be eaten cold")
To: pillut48
To: The King of Elflands Daughter
obamas long form will be there watch and see
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