Ruskies close to breaching 14-Million-Year-Old Antarctic Lake

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wired.com/wiredscience/2011/01/lake-vostok-antarctica/
Now, the team has satisfied 1 the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat, which safeguards the continent’s environment, that it’s come up with a technique to sample the lake without contaminating it 2. Valery Lukin told New Scientist: “Once the lake is reached, the water pressure will push the working body and the drilling fluid upwards in the borehole, and then freeze again 3.” The next season, the team will bore into that frozen water to recover a sample whose contents can then be analyzed.
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Tinfoil hat footnotes
1. Bribed
2. No worries about the lake contaminating us :devil:.
3. or create a geyser of hitherto unknown biological horrors

I've been eagerly awaiting this. Come on Ruskies, pop that cork! What's the worst that could happen?

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Lake Vostok - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is suspected that the Antarctic subglacial lakes may be connected by a network of subterranean rivers. CPOM glaciologists Duncan Wingham (University College, London) and Martin Siegert (University of Bristol, now University of Edinburgh) published in Nature in 2006 that many of the subglacial lakes of Antarctica are at least temporarily interconnected. Because of varying water pressure in individual lakes, large, sub-surface rivers may suddenly form and then force large amounts of water through the solid ice.[3]
 
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Since it's possible they won't break through until next season, perhaps this is what the Mayans foresaw...:heh:;)

Seriously though, this would be a cool element to add to a Cthuluesque Antarctic campaign. Like adding it to the ideas in this thread: Ideas_for_campaign_based_in_the_Antarctic.

Or, perhaps the lake was actually created from the residual heat emanations of an extraterrestrial vehicle - ala John Carpenter's The Thing.

:D
 
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