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- adooga, on 12/05/2007, -6/+4115 million years? No way! God made the world like 6000 years ago.
And it didn't take him very long either. - OmegaSnake2007, on 12/05/2007, -1/+34Great now we have to worry about the things from The Thing.
- Richandler, on 12/05/2007, -5/+32"Researchers have thawed ice..." No wonder ice is melting!
- suxmonkey, on 12/05/2007, -1/+28"The lake water itself may have been isolated for as long as 15 million years." Awesome graphic illustration too.
- BagginsBoy, on 12/05/2007, -1/+25I see a new market for premium bottled water.
- floodyberry, on 12/05/2007, -2/+22My favorite part was how the article stole the image from http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/lake_vost ... while plagiarizing from http://www.asoc.org/what_other1.htm and http://passporttoknowledge.com/polar-palooza/pp00b ...
It took me 5 whole minutes to find this out, so I can see why Bukowsky just went with the ad covered blogspam instead of finding an actual source: http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2008/nov/ice112107.h ... - Shaman760, on 12/05/2007, -3/+20So...wonder what happened the last time some unsuspecting scientists thawed out some ice from that lake? Perhaps the lake is some sort of global reset button in which killer microbes are unleashed that reduces us all to dirt, and the world "reboots" itself.
Oh well...maybe Humanity 2.0 or 3.0 or whatever version we are will not be so stupid next time around. - Wisgary, on 12/05/2007, -1/+15What if some creatures come out of there that are used to living in a locked environment, and once they hit the outside, they reproduce in unreasonable amounts and destroy all resources on earth? Well, *****.
- inactive, on 12/05/2007, -1/+14Why is everyone so concerned about the lakewater contaminating *us*?
Any sort of deeply niched ecosystem like that is probably going to be very fragile. If anything,dealing with introducing strange new chemical toxins, new viruses and bacteria that have had access to far vaster biodiversities for 15 million years, and rapid climate change (when bringing them up to be examined), as well as possibly removing it from any symbiotic organisms, it will probably be hard to keep any microbial samples alive for any length of time. - CaviMike, on 12/05/2007, -1/+11Crap, now they're going to find my secret under-water lair!
- LeeSoong, on 12/05/2007, -0/+7Remember:
Before allowing any of the researchers to come back to civilization,
take a blood sample from each one of them, and dip a red hot wire into the blood...
We have to be careful... - khaosx2030, on 12/05/2007, -0/+7Global warming my ass, it's the scientists!
- tetsuwan, on 12/05/2007, -0/+6exactly
Digg users claim that they are pro science, but somehow manage to misinterpret 99% of the science submissions. Sigh. - sovietninja, on 12/05/2007, -0/+6Seriously, those ***** were hard to kill on Halo 3 on Legendary. I say we leave the Forerunner frozen underwater construct alone.
- alexkorova, on 12/05/2007, -0/+6Now I finally got you, Carmen Sandiego!
- nealpolitan, on 12/05/2007, -2/+7One word... Shoggoth
- duggtodeath, on 12/05/2007, -17/+22In Soviet Antarctica, ice thaws you.
- charliewoot, on 12/05/2007, -1/+6Mystery solved, turns out it's only frozen water.
- dictum, on 12/05/2007, -0/+5In before medication.
- Tiggums, on 12/05/2007, -0/+4In other news... Scientists find Waldo hidden in old frozen lake in Antarctica....
- Notsafetoeat, on 12/05/2007, -1/+5Doubtful, my source http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF111-Reset.jpg
- MikeFromAmerica, on 12/05/2007, -0/+4Maybe your poor ass would. I own a boat.
- MikeFromAmerica, on 12/05/2007, -0/+4FTA: "Lake Vostok is located beneath four kilometers of ice in East Antarctica."
Exactly what is East Antarctica? If you keep going east, you're just walking in circles. - darb, on 12/05/2007, -4/+8To be completely honest, I believe in creation and still have to admit that your comment is absurd. Just because trees are only 7000 years old and people only have a 10,000 year lineage, doesn't mean that the Earth didn't sit for a very long time before trees and humans.
We have to respect the fact that, yes - the big bang could have happened. It's a solid theory. There's no conflict there with science and religion, God very well could have made the "big bang", just as much as nothing sparked something.
Enjoy your beliefs. We're only on Earth for a short period of time, let's just suck it up, respect each other, respect the knowledge that man has, and enjoy our days. - Shaman760, on 12/05/2007, -1/+5Yeah, I got that after I took off my tinfoil hat. :)
- jggr, on 12/05/2007, -1/+5It's worse than that.. That has been around for longer than the internet has been popular.
/Kill it. Kill it before it spreads. - phutcherso, on 12/05/2007, -0/+3The lake is not frozen. It's under such an amount of pressure the water doesn't freeze.
- MikeFromAmerica, on 12/05/2007, -0/+3Why so pessimistic? Maybe there will be a new species of intelligent aquatic animals that taste delicious with barbecue sauce!!!
- vwvan, on 12/05/2007, -3/+6didn't Steve McQueen bury the blob up there? We're hosed if that thing thaws!
- swoopdog, on 12/05/2007, -2/+5wow its tired of internet meme
- Haecceity, on 12/05/2007, -2/+4No honest person would look at the evidence for the immense age of the earth and conclude it was only 10,000 years old. I can only assume that reading the Bible makes people dishonest.
- Notsafetoeat, on 12/05/2007, -0/+2I was commenting on the "next time around."
- antechinus, on 12/05/2007, -1/+3It is not a matter of honesty, it is a matter of IQ.
- inactive, on 12/05/2007, -1/+3after years of drilling...the scientists realized that they have missed the lake surface by about 2 meters.
- FlyCO, on 12/05/2007, -0/+2... hitting a oil deposit instead, yay!
- fonebone2, on 12/05/2007, -0/+2chances are we no longer carry immunity to diseases our ancestors were exposed to 15 million years ago.
- vertinox, on 12/05/2007, -1/+3Or maybe there rare species in which as soon as we come into contact they all get sick and die adding to the list of species mankind has wiped out.
- dgendreau, on 12/05/2007, -0/+2Exactly. We shouldnt contaminate the lake, but the danger to us is extremely unlikely. No more than bringing back organisms from the bottom of the ocean. These things have evolved to survive in an extremely cold, low radiation and high pressure environment. I seriously doubt that they have a chance of living in our world much less our 98.6 degree bodies.
- inactive, on 12/05/2007, -0/+2Nah, they are all good.
I'll just put my hand on their chests to check for an unusual heartbeat. - antechinus, on 12/05/2007, -0/+2Xtian *****. In Australia, radiocarbon of Aboriginal bone collagen fragments has revealed dates of 26,000 years BP.
- Sikarian, on 12/05/2007, -0/+1Well now, that's awesome.
Send in the dive team - Sikarian, on 12/05/2007, -0/+1Is this lake frozen? Wouldn't the ice then technically be connected to the ice above it? How do they differentiate what is the lake and what is just ice thats ontop of it? Sounds like to me antarctica is one giant extension of this lake.
- Ducksa, on 12/05/2007, -0/+1They've found Megatron's hiding place.
- ell0bo, on 12/05/2007, -0/+1I liked where you were going with that, it had a scenic view, but then you took a turn around retard and got all messed up.
- inactive, on 12/06/2007, -0/+1I think that in that sense "east" is relative to the "north" of the prime meridian (up to sign, the orientation may be flipped since it's the south pole; I'm not exactly sure what the convention is)
- Shaman760, on 12/05/2007, -2/+3http://astroprofspage.com/archives/1152
I'm not laughing. Some wacko scientist with a flair for engineering dangerous things not unlike a serial arsonist will somehow bind a killer flu bug and this crap together (if they haven't already) and guess what? We all go bye-bye. - satanikus, on 12/05/2007, -0/+1Tekeli-li!
- MCMLXXXII, on 12/05/2007, -0/+1forget bumblebee, I want to meet Megan Fox!
- inactive, on 12/05/2007, -0/+1We'll never know since your ancestors were amoebas. Do you still share the same DNA?
- MCMLXXXII, on 12/05/2007, -0/+1waterworld?
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