NA scientists about to hit an underground lake untouched for 20 million years

All of those scientists went missing... 7 days so far. No radio contact and people looking for them...

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Crap they will let the deadly freshwater vampire architeuthis.
 
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/...en-antarctica/
Missing scientists mystery deepens in frozen Antarctica
The team’s last contact with colleagues in the unfrozen world was six long days ago, and scientists from around the globe are unsure of the fate of the mission -- and the scientists themselves -- as Antarctica’s killing winter draws near.
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Missing scientists? Missing? Seriously? Stupid drama queens have never been out of constant cellphone contact their entire lives. I can show them places in North America that you can't get cellphone contact for 6 days. These are obviously the same talking heads Antarctica experts that are aviation experts.


OzPilot said:
All of those scientists went missing... 7 days so far. No radio contact and people looking for them...
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The Thing.
 
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The onion would be great :-)

The info I saw originally in an Australian paper was that they have Iridium sat phones (a number of them) but none of them are contactable since the last drill attempt
 
Antarctica is a tough place. I read about a guy who went out and froze to death because he couldn't find the shack ten feet away. The scientists doing the drill on the big lake are Russian, so they're probably out of communication because their cheap Russian radio broke.
 
fgcason said:
Missing scientists? Missing? Seriously? Stupid drama queens have never been out of constant cellphone contact their entire lives. I can show them places in North America that you can't get cellphone contact for 6 days. These are obviously the same talking heads Antarctica experts that are aviation experts.
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While I wouldn't suspect The Thing quite yet, your pishaw over communications loss is also unfounded. They aren't on cell phones, they'll be on Sat Phones and will also have an HF radio back up most likely and quite possibly another 'store forward' satellite data link. Loss of communications would be caused by two issues, loss of power or solar storms.
 
Henning said:
While I wouldn't suspect The Thing quite yet, your pishaw over communications loss is also unfounded. They aren't on cell phones, they'll be on Sat Phones and will also have an HF radio back up most likely and quite possibly another 'store forward' satellite data link. Loss of communications would be caused by two issues, loss of power or solar storms.
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And the last solar storm was over a week ago. I've been watching them on the off chance we'll see an aurora this down south. Auroras have only gotten as far south as MI this season.
 
Lake can't be that old. Remember the p38 glacier girl? The recovery team was stunned to find it so deep under the ice since ww2.
 
Sure it can. The p-38 was under 260 ft, in 50 years. That's 50 feet per year accumulation. The lake is under 13,000 feet of ice and is 20 million years old- however, with that thick of an ice sheet the basal ice is compressed immensely. So, each year's accumulation can be compressed to an inch. Also, the lake is 20Ma. But how old is the ice directly above it? As the article says, Antarctica was significantly more northward for awhile. And, the atmosphere was significantly warmer than today, pushing the ice limit closer to the poles. I don't have empirical data on all this, but I'll buy it.
Do I agree with drilling the lake? Eh, I dunno. Part of me says yes- potential for cool creatures is really high. But another part of me says no- that continent is the only one we haven't significantly, directly messed with.
Has anyone here been to Antarctica? Just curious. Kyle
 
Datadriver said:
Lake can't be that old. Remember the p38 glacier girl? The recovery team was stunned to find it so deep under the ice since ww2.
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And to add to what Kyle said - keep in mind that 50" of snow a year is only what happened at the Glacier Gal site - actual local snowfall that gets compressed into the glacier varies greatly by location. For example - we all know that Fairbanks, Alaska and Los Angeles, California get EXACTLY the same amount of snow every year, right? :no:
 
Conan said:
But another part of me says no- that continent is the only one we haven't significantly, directly messed with.
Has anyone here been to Antarctica? Just curious. Kyle
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You're wrong. Antarctica is melting away because of global warming. We've already screwed the entire continent. Might as well drill into the lake.
 
Conan said:
Sure it can. The p-38 was under 260 ft, in 50 years. That's 50 feet per year accumulation. The lake is under 13,000 feet of ice and is 20 million years old
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Don't you mean 5 feet/yr (250/50)?

At a rate of 5 feet/yr, 13000 feet down is 2600 years, not 20 million.

I'm not hung up on the age, just doubting the claims of strange life forms they expect to find.
 
Datadriver said:
Lake can't be that old. Remember the p38 glacier girl? The recovery team was stunned to find it so deep under the ice since ww2.
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???? Did you take science in Kansas? Taken Algebra ever? How on God's green Earth did you reach the conclusion you did from your data point? Where do you drive data, crazy? How many degrees of disconnect lie between the two?
 
Henning said:
???? Did you take science in Kansas? Taken Algebra ever? How on God's green Earth did you reach the conclusion you did from your data point? Where do you drive data, crazy? How many degrees of disconnect lie between the two?
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This from one of our resident "scientists" :rolleyes2:
 
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