Who'll think of the wee penguins? It's madness, I tell you, madness!

/mountains of it, even
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This is always how it starts in the movies.

Which means great scientific advances and/or the release of an unstoppable evil from its tomb, hard to say

don't be so black and white...

or an alien vs predator movie.

Andrew Wiggin: or an alien vs predator movie.

A real life version may be more entertaining than the movie

Don't wake Cthulhu!

Did you say 20 million year old unstoppable evil? Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have a new front-runner for the Republican primaries.

effort to explore this wet underside of Antarctica

Fap?

What an unstoppable evil may look like

The real danger down there is Bizarro Santa

The Dwarves Russians dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum Antartica... shadow and flame.

Wouldn't it suck to have called into work sick that day? "We've been drilling for twenty years, and I'm bored. I'm going to go play laser tag today. It's not like anything interesting will happen."

What are they hoping to achieve? Maybe I've seen too many movies, but I'm having a hard time coming up with a good result from this. It's not like the cure for cancer is down there....

OR IS IT.

I just hope nobody on the surface kills Alaya. Last thing we need is a war.

QuinnTheFetus: Andrew Wiggin: or an alien vs predator movie.

A real life version may be more entertaining than the movie

Between this and the mystery saucer at the bottom of the Baltic, we could have sci-fi become sci-nonfi.

This could mean actual advances in the field of science!

Welp, that's it for us homo sapiens. Always wondered how it would happen.

/ it was really nice not knowing all you Farkers

Speaking as someone who just got back from working at a US led ice-coring camp in Antarctica (WAIS Divide), I can say that while this is exciting, there doesn't seem to be enough public talk about just how likely it is that there could be contamination from the drill fluid. There's basically an almost 4km long borehole filled with kerosene that they hope is at the right pressure so that it won't all (or partially) drain into the lake.....which would incidentally be an enormous breach of the Antarctic Treaty. We would have liked to have drilled to the bed at WAIS, but stopped 50 meters short (a sort-of "stewardship buffer") because of this same issue. You can feel confident about the pressure measurements....but is it worth the risk?

Still...you can't help be be scientifically curious as to what sort of critters could have survived and/or evolved in that sort of environment.

/yay for science!

damn, we just can't leave anything alone can we?

/penis

Arkanaut: This could mean actual advances in the field of science!

science has failed our mother earth.

Tekalee lee! Tekalee lee!

Perhaps the Mountains of Madness has been found?

Ph'nglu mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wagn'nagl fhtagn (new window)

Come back with shoggoths or don't come back at all!

FTFA: To prevent a sudden release of gas, the Russian team will not push the drill far into the lake but just deep enough for a limited amount of water

So, just the tip?

So what do they expect to find in this submerged lake? Some new species of plankton that will eventually be worth nothing in terms of research? Fresh water that is too far away from civilization to use?
And twenty million years old? Sorry my friends, there is nothing older than six thousand years on this planet.
If you spent less time on the internet and more time reading the bible, you would understand the pointlessness of projects like this.

ihatedumbpeople: What are they hoping to achieve? Maybe I've seen too many movies, but I'm having a hard time coming up with a good result from this. It's not like the cure for cancer is down there....

OR IS IT.

Totally. I'm not religious and I don't believe in ghosts but come on! Of course this will release unstoppable evil!

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Poor husky . . .

/Knows how this story ends

It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train-a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.

Not impressed. And a bit a scared.

"It's clean. It's cold. Now, that's what I call high quality H2O."

/shut up, Brent!

Jake Havechek: It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train-a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.

c'mon. grables daughter isn't that bad.

GAMERA!!!

Meh...I've drilled where the sun hasn't shine before.....

kaedric: Speaking as someone who just got back from working at a US led ice-coring camp in Antarctica (WAIS Divide), I can say that while this is exciting, there doesn't seem to be enough public talk about just how likely it is that there could be contamination from the drill fluid. There's basically an almost 4km long borehole filled with kerosene that they hope is at the right pressure so that it won't all (or partially) drain into the lake.....which would incidentally be an enormous breach of the Antarctic Treaty. We would have liked to have drilled to the bed at WAIS, but stopped 50 meters short (a sort-of "stewardship buffer") because of this same issue. You can feel confident about the pressure measurements....but is it worth the risk?

Still...you can't help be be scientifically curious as to what sort of critters could have survived and/or evolved in that sort of environment.

/yay for science!

Now I'm no Scientist, but I'm curious, wouldn't the water in the lake be under enormous pressure? If that's the case, wouldn't it come gushing out like an oil gusher once the surface was pierced?

Andrew Wiggin: Jake Havechek: It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train-a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.

c'mon. grables daughter isn't that bad.

She is when she hasn't had her coffee.

If you find a pair of seeds, do NOT let them thaw out, and call the Doctor!

kaedric: Speaking as someone who just got back from working at a US led ice-coring camp in Antarctica

Damn, kids today are so spoiled.

In my day, the rich kids went to tennis camp; everyone else just went to crappy camp at Lake Wakamaka.

Came for the Gamera reference, leaving satisfied.

/Damn that little kid was annoying

Abox: ihatedumbpeople: What are they hoping to achieve? Maybe I've seen too many movies, but I'm having a hard time coming up with a good result from this. It's not like the cure for cancer is down there....

OR IS IT.

Totally. I'm not religious and I don't believe in ghosts but come on! Of course this will release unstoppable evil!

Well, that's obvious. the only question is how many heads it will have. 2? 3? How many teeth per head? I'm thinking 4 heads, at least 1000 teeth per head, maybe with horns.

/similar headline as well



//Hmmm... appropriate