Bet the scientists aleady know that the opening to the inner core of the world is right there waiting at the door

Originally posted by AGWskeptic
Look at the sat photos, it's surrounded by mountains.

I'm not the one who claims it moves 3 meters a year...

The Russians did, the ones doing the drilling

I merely pointed out that an annual movement of three meters doesn't make sense with keeping a hole open

Originally posted by xZodiacx
Im sorry guys I guess I though this was Arctic lake, not Antarctic. So much for making an impression with my first post! lol smh

edit on 7-2-2012 by xZodiacx because: double stupidity

Don't be sorry by friend, alot of folks are wrong about this. Atleast you didn't run away from your mistake. It's an easy error to make if you have never studied either poles. As a kid I always thought The 1982 movie THE THING had taken place in the North Pole, which after actually educating myself over a decade later, I finally found out that to be wrong.

My point of bringing up my childhood assumptions, is that I would guess that I was one of many young boys or men back then that were duped by such a classic movie. Enough of that for now though, because I could watch the original 1982 THE THING a thousand more times, and that is the truth. That's the kind of movie it was and is.

If anyone is interested in the subject of this (meaning the hidden history of Antarctica), I, as well as others, are open to anykind of discussion groups or anyhing else organized that we could all put together.

With that being said, while at the same time enjoying eachothers just plain company, thoughts, knowledge, and personal experiences, I love this stuff so much. ~SheopleNation

here is my post from a similar topic.


Just some thoughts to consider:

Over the last year at Camp Vostok we have witnessed a change in the scientific procedures. The main change and concern has been the "Rush" to reach this subglacial lake. As scientists, I'm sure they would brush off this consideration as no problem at all. They would most likely respond by saying that they were now "super focused" not careless because we were so close. But along with the rush to be first, there is the nagging question of not considering the consquences. Scientists continue to be deluded by this elaborate line of bull#. That is, they are seeking to know the truth about nature and the origin of our species. But in reality, that is not what drives them. They are not driven by abstractions like the search for truth. If they were so inclined, they would never have left that borehole open to the elements until next year. In fact they would have never drilled into these unknown relms utilizing such crude techniques.

Let's face the facts. They are more preoccupied with accomplishments then they are with pure science. It seems that they have never stopped to ask if they should do this in the first place (drilling thousands of meters below frozen Antarctic tundra to open up an enourmous subglacial lake). Pure scientific discovery is always extremely aggressive and almost always changes the world afterwards. Scientific discovery usually results in the rape of the natural world. We leave behind scars in the earth, pollution in our oceans, radioactive waste, space junk and the list goes on.

According to press releases, the Russian team stated that they were able to pump out all the keresene and other solvents and that the lake water rushed up the well and froze forming a plug. Next year they plan on taking samples of the lake water. It seems to me that there are still alot of unasswered questions.
Such as;

1. Won't they have to re-drill into the lake water next year to launch a probe or take a sample?
2. Are they certain that they have not contaminated the site (above and below)?
3. Did they release any gases or other contaminents into the atmosphere?
4. What if they found life forms?
5. What if they found intelligent life?
6. Why was this lake buried so deep?
7. What if humans were not meant to touch or expose this lake to the surrounding environment?
8. Are they certain that the site is stable?
9. Could acess to this lake cause an environmental paradigm shift?
10. Will access effect the lake temperature and environment?

This is just a sample of the hundreds of questions that still remain unanswered.
I don't know about you, but I feel a little queasy about the unpredictability factor going on here.

Stringman

I think there's more to it then just water down there

Cool article and topic.

I've read a piece of fiction related to this, as well as seen both Thing movies. Yes, it makes your mind speculate out of control.

What if it's a large pool of stored toxic/nuclear waste from previous advanced civilizations? (ancient aliens)
What if its a strange pseudo innocuous gas/chemical that radically changes our atmosphere (total recall?)
What if its a quasi black hole, time portal? (there was an apparent team investigating a vortex?)
What if they find a giant spacecraft and a crazy giant morphing bug frozen in an ice cube? (THING!)

but my guess is that they will find a few interesting mutations of microscopic plankton, algae, and/or fish and shrimp, if anything at all. Something like a simple and boring little algae that can live without light would be an amazing, life changing discovery. How about a plankton that can hibernate 15k years? The air content itself is one of the more important pieces of data to them, so yeah it's going to be delicate work.

I hope they let us in on what they find and don't whitewash it with hollywood types and quack scientists this once, wouldn't it be nice?