To: PJ-Comix
I'm thinking that the most realistic theory so far presented is that they drilled through to the under the ice lake and the water pressure sent a tower of water up that covered the scientists and froze them like human Popsicles.
The first thought I had was of some out-gassing episode, such as what happened at a couple of lakes in Africa. If a lake is isolated from the atmosphere that long, there could be a huge amount of CO2 dissolved in the water from subterranean sources. Remove the pressure and pop goes the CO2 and everyone is asphyxiated and then frozen like human Popsicles.
26 posted on
02/05/2012 7:43:48 AM PST by
aruanan
To: aruanan
Isn’t there some orbiting satellite that can bring us photos of the Lake Vostok area? Perhaps we can see if there was flooding and subsequent freezing there.
28 posted on
02/05/2012 7:47:14 AM PST by
PJ-Comix
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