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.
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I’ve been watching that series from beginning to end.
When it starts, his hair is perfectly normal.
As the series progresses [and he slowly but surely unravels] the hair starts doing that weird thing.
The show is boring as hell but it’s worth watching just for the special hair effects....:)
Who is that dude with the funny hair?
It’s in the Southern Hemisphere. It’s Opposite Land. Water spirals the wrong way down the drain. Winter is Summer.
Did they cover this is Geography in your grade school? Maybe you’re not stupid, but simply ill-informed.
it is late summer, they need to be leaving before autumn.
winter in antarctica is bizarre, 100++mph gales, temperatures something unbelievable like -50c before wind chill.
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