Posted on 02/04/2012 5:14:39 PM PST by PJ-Comix
The scientific community is holding its breath for a team of Russian scientists that has been out of contact with colleagues in the U.S for six days, as they drill into a lake buried beneath the Antarctic ice for 20 million years.
They have to evacuate their station by Tuesday - when winter proper kicks in and temperatures start to drop to an inhospitable minus 90C.
The scientists are currently battling conditions of up to minus 66C at Lake Vostok as they raced to drill into a lake buried two miles beneath the ice before the weather closed in.
They were hoping water in the lake, the most inhospitable region of the planet, would reveal more about ancient life on our planet - but they have fallen silent just days before the deadly winter is due to begin.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“Why arent they doing this during the summer?”
They WERE doing it during the summer. It’s now early fall, not far from the autumnal equinox, which is the point where the sun goes down for good at that latitude. When the sun sets, all activity in the Antarctic stops until Sept. 21.
Hey ‘creek’’ is it me or does this dude have some head of hair or what? Man, how does he do it?
ALIENS!
Well, Cameron ‘s probably looking for another wife . . .
There are no more proper winters, Larry.
So, you’re one of them scientists?
“Oy! Prayers up. Cold sucks.”
I can’t think of a better bunch to handle super-cold temperatures. But even so, I certainly wish them the best. Sooner, rather than later, we’re going to have to team up with them to deal with China and the bearded ones. After reading the books that I have, I have a BOATLOAD of respect for what they’ve had to deal with, and a BOATLOAD of respect for the level of sacrifice they’ve put themselves through, just to try to keep their children from getting minced up.
“Conversation, OTOH, can be difficult. You have to pick the words up, carry them inside your cabin, and thaw them on the stove before you can hear them. “
LOL. They dealt with something like that on the Flintstones once. Fred screamed into a box...they drove into the woods, opened the box, and then the yell rang out.
In any case, I know what you’re getting at. If people understand and are prepared for super-cold conditions, they can survive, as the people in your north do every year.
“C’mon people, let’s be rational. They’ve obviously found the entrance to hollow earth and are relaxing in a tropical paradise.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0sb159J4O0
>Why dont we travel to the sun at night?)<
Because it will be so dark we might fly right past it?
You got me, I stumped... LOL
Your funny!!! Got a chuckle from me.
OTOH, the outside world may have to wait ~5300 years à la Oetzi.
(Should something have gone horribly wrong.)
It is February, which *IS* high summer in the Antarctic. Winter in the northern hemisphere is summer in the southern hemisphere, right ?
I don’t understand why this article implies winter is closing in.
Hopefully their communications system is just broken. I really hope they arent’ in a room drinking vodka and looking at eeach other waiting to see who turns into an alien.
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