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- michaelpinto, on 03/02/2009, -1/+39H. P. Lovecraft first mentioned this mountain range in 1931 before that "Russian explorer": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_M ...
- TheFinaleofSeem, on 03/02/2009, -2/+36It's all fun and games until someone gets killed by a Shoggoth...
- Nephlabobo, on 03/02/2009, -2/+28I can't wait until they find the blind albino penguins.
- jcsoc, on 03/02/2009, -1/+13How aren't mountains ancient?
- halfbrown, on 03/02/2009, -2/+13C'thulhu fhtagn!
- fasda, on 03/02/2009, -1/+11Fans of H.P Lovecraft already have good indication of what lies beneath.
- poopsybythebay, on 03/02/2009, -0/+10This was very interesting. I love this stuff--I can't wait to see what kind of info they find in the lakes.
- defwheezer, on 03/02/2009, -0/+9FTA: "One lake, Vostok, a possible living biological lab of ancient lifeforms, was an incredible 300 kilometers."
er... 'internets the sentence'
The lake is below 300 meters of ice, is 300 meters wide, is 300 meters deep...?? - jkendal4, on 03/02/2009, -0/+8Very interesting, but I would love to read another source that maybe doesn't mention indiana jones in it's summary, just to see what the scientific community actually thinks of this discovery and what this actually implies
- eldt, on 03/02/2009, -0/+7Here's info from a recent Nature article: http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090224/full/457106 ... (of course you will probably need a personal or institutional subscription).
Here's a BBC article too: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7908824. ... with some real science in it. - sloonark, on 03/02/2009, -0/+6What a terribly written article:
"and buried under a kilometer of Antarctica."
"One lake, Vostok, a possible living biological lab of ancient lifeforms, was an incredible 300 kilometers."
etc.
Seriously, how hard is it to proofread something before it's published online? Or to educate the people writing it? - erkokite, on 03/02/2009, -0/+5If they're new.
- GlitchEnzo, on 03/03/2009, -0/+5Dugg because I just read At the Mountains of Madness last week.
- eldt, on 03/02/2009, -3/+7Did you even read the article? It says nothing about 100s of meters of ice forming in 50 years. The scientists are talking about geologic time (a really ***** long time). And understanding how the ice sheet has fluctuated in the past (which we know it has) will help us understand and predict future behavior under global warming. This does nothing to refute anthropogenic climate change in any way.
- inactive, on 03/02/2009, -2/+6The Rocky Mountains aren't ancient at all by geological standards...
- inactive, on 03/03/2009, -1/+5In Fingerprints of the Gods, Graham Hancock lays out his theory that Antarctica was in a different latitude until about 10k years ago, when the entire crust of the planet shifted on its mantle. Among the many mysteries which this theory attempts to explain is a hundreds of years old map (which was supposedly based on even older, forgotten maps) of the entire land surface of Antarctica - without any ice. The shift triggered such sudden climate changes that it caused huge global floods and other disasters, which he says wiped out an advanced global civilization, and are the basis for the story of Atlantis and much of the Book of Genesis.
Take what you will from that. Interesting read, in any case. - jkendal4, on 03/02/2009, -0/+4If this range, which is estimated to be 540 million years old at the earliest, since no tectonic activity is known to have occurred in this region for at least that long, then it is incredibly preserved for it's age. In comparison, the mountains most like it, the Alps, are only 340 million years old, while the Appalachians are 450 million years old. So if these mountains were located anywhere else on the globe they would look more the the foothills of the Rocky Mountains than the Swiss Alps. That's what's so amazing about this discovery.
- Gwyddyon, on 03/03/2009, -0/+3I was wondering how long it would take for the Lovecraft reference. My faith in Digg is renewed.
- jkendal4, on 03/02/2009, -0/+3awesome thanks
- Aeomyr, on 03/02/2009, -0/+3That's nothing compared to the horrors that lurk beneath the Trap Door. For there is always something down there, in the dark, waiting to come out.
- robinthehood, on 03/03/2009, -0/+3Next they'll discover the Plateau of Leng. Then we're all *****.
- Marrach, on 03/03/2009, -0/+3 I hope the silly scientists take heed when the dogs start barking wildly in the middle of the cold dead night. In all the books and movies, that's usually the only warning you get.
And then the rest of us will have to hope that some alcoholic ex-Priest "Who has lost his faith" will be there to save us. - 12916studios, on 03/02/2009, -1/+3Perhaps they just found Atlantis... Or at least the location of the Stargate to it.
- sebek, on 03/02/2009, -1/+3that was my first thought upon reading the title....There's something hidden in those mountains even the old ones fear and it drove the last guy to see it insane instantly. Best work on my chants to ensure that I'm one of the first to die rather than one of the last.
I'a i'a i'a Cthulhu fhtagn! I'a i'a i'a Cthulhu fhtagn! - TheMadPoet, on 03/02/2009, -0/+2http://network.nature.com/people/caio_maximino/blo ...
...we’ve been setting the field for our investigations on the nervous system of a fictional species, the Old One, an important part of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. The first step here would be to determine the position of such a creature in the Tree of Life. Lovecraft’s description is interesting, because it tangentiates what was known at his time in terms of taxonomy. Let us come back to his description:
...and they look like thiiiiiiisssss - aaaahhhgggg!!!!
http://www.tonmo.com/forums/attachment.php?attachm ... - inactive, on 03/02/2009, -2/+4They are.......THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS!!!!!!!
- fuzzybad, on 03/03/2009, -0/+2"the area could have been ice free at some points in history"
I'd say Antarctica was almost certainly ice-free at some point, it wasn't always located at the South pole. Continental drift moved it there over millions of years, and millions of years from now it will once again be in a temperate latitude. Scientists say Antarctica broke off from Pangea about 250 million years ago, I wonder what dinosaur fossils are sitting at the bottom of all that ice? - PactumServa, on 03/02/2009, -0/+2He accidentally the end of the sentence.
- sho222, on 03/02/2009, -1/+3So, this is evidence that global temperatures have fluctuated rapidly in the past (i.e., before human-driven factors).
- GOVStooge, on 03/03/2009, -0/+2Dugg for this line
"Which is a pity, as volcanoes erupting into thousands of tons of solid ice is probably the only way this incredible landscape could sound any more awesome." - TheMadPoet, on 03/03/2009, -0/+2The time of the Old Ones is neigh! It happened. Here's the pics:
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t= ... - StEligius, on 03/03/2009, -0/+2Thank god I'm not the only geek that thought about that story upon seeing that headline!
- FreeTalkLIve, on 03/03/2009, -1/+3I hope they find a stargate in there.
- Trent1492, on 03/03/2009, -1/+3Did you read the article?
- Pother, on 03/03/2009, -0/+2Compared to you and me, yes.
Compared to each other, no.
Another example:
In West Virginia and Virginia, there is the "New River"... which is, from what I've heard, supposed to be, geologically, the 2nd oldest river in the world.
Which I suppose got its name after the Magrathians had finished making the oldest river.
There was a bit of an argument about what to call the 3rd oldest river... - inactive, on 03/03/2009, -0/+2Ancient mountain range in Antarctica is unislamic. I demand an apology!
- sebek, on 03/03/2009, -0/+1wow, meant to have this reply to the lovecraft message....don't know how it ended up by itself
- Diggnabbit, on 03/03/2009, -1/+2Bad Horse?
(nigh ≠ neigh) - jcsoc, on 03/03/2009, -1/+2like the one I'm building out of cocaine?
- MasterGrief, on 03/02/2009, -0/+1Why, they'll be eaten for sustenance, of course.
I had no idea what Nephlabobo's comment was getting at until I read through part of the wikipedia article for At the Mountains of Madness-- michaelpinto linked it in the comment below Nephlabobo's. Follow his link, then look at the fifth paragraph of the plot summary. - sloonark, on 03/03/2009, -1/+2You don't need to be a scientist to be able to write correct English.
- inactive, on 03/03/2009, -0/+1New and ancient are both subjective terms, and are both scientifically useless.
- inactive, on 03/04/2009, -0/+1brix
- pumanegra2012, on 03/03/2009, -0/+1I wish i could go there!!
- TheMadPoet, on 03/10/2009, -0/+1augh! Ya got me stranger... don't hurt my mules...
- EmancipatedJake, on 03/03/2009, -0/+1they also found an alien spacecraft parked in a garage built into the mountain and some one let its head lights on..
- inactive, on 03/02/2009, -8/+8Don't worry, Al Gore will get some people on it right away.
I would guess he will build another mansion that has an unoccupied power bill of 8000.00 a month. - Trent1492, on 03/03/2009, -2/+2Where in the article does it say this?
- leetninja, on 03/03/2009, -1/+1wasnt this the tagline of alien vs predator?
- jburka, on 03/03/2009, -1/+1Dugg 6 days ago ... old news ... so is the mountain range!
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