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AFC-911

02-17-2014 11:15 AM

Aliens in Antarctica?

There's a guy at work says that the Nazis were headed down there to escape the war and had alien technology.

And there was a guy named Byrd who saw US troops get decimated by unknown weapons.

He says they're aliens.

Do people really believe this?

BRPORSCHE

02-17-2014 11:16 AM

What on Earth did I just read?

kach22i

02-17-2014 11:20 AM

I thought Byrd was at the North Pole and conjured the hollow Earth theory.

I've read different stories over the years, all very entertaining.

I'm not sure what to make of it, but it is fascinating.

EDIT: found this.

http://exopolitics.org/did-us-navy-battle-ufos-protecting-nazi-antarctic-sanctuary-in-1947/

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Admiral Byrd’s statements were published in the Chilean Press but never publicly confirmed by US authorities. Indeed Byrd did not speak again to the Press about Operation Highjump, leaving it for researchers to speculate for decades over what really happened, and why Byrd was silenced.

GH85Carrera

02-17-2014 11:37 AM

There is still a flat earth society

The Flat Earth Society - Index

Aliens are no different than Bigfoot, ghosts, zombies or vampires. It is just a way for scammers to dupe some fool out of some money.

M.D. Holloway

02-17-2014 11:41 AM

I've known a few guys that spent time at the South Pole. The only thing they saw was a lot of ice and snow. No aliens but they did say there was a lot of wrecked stuff that could all be explained....

seebobgo

02-17-2014 11:54 AM

Someone or something kicked Byrd's ass.

kach22i

02-17-2014 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by M.D. Holloway (Post 7916128)

I've known a few guys that spent time at the South Pole. The only thing they saw was a lot of ice and snow. No aliens but they did say there was a lot of wrecked stuff that could all be explained....

Bummer, I was hoping to hear of vast underground warm water springs and hot babes speaking German.

Antarctica - A Nazi Base? - An Excerpt From 'Alien Agenda'

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NEUBERLIN

If you had been a Wehrmacht soldier at the bombed-out railroad station in Poltava, a city in the Ukraine, during the summer of 1942, you may have seen a very strange-looking military unit on the march, heading for a waiting passenger train.

The unit consisted of women, all of them blond and blue-eyed, between the ages of 17 and 24, tall and slender, their sensational figures encased in striking sky-blue uniforms.

Each woman wore an Italian-style garrison cap, an A-line skirt with the hem below the knee, and a form-fitting jacket with the insignia of the SS. You might have thought the SS had recruited a platoon of high-class call girls, but the truth was far stranger than that. You would have been looking at Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler's latest brainstorm - the Antarktische Siedlungnsfrauen [Antarctic Settlement Women or ASF].

The story actually begins in 1938, when the German seaplane carrier Schwabenland sailed across the South Atlantic, bound for Queen Maud's Land in Antarctica.

http://skullandbonesband.blogspot.com/2012/09/antarktische-siedlungnsfrauen-antarctic.html
http://ona.blog.so-net.ne.jp/_images.../Women20SS.jpg

Long Video:
Third Reich - Operation UFO (Nazi Base In Antarctica) Complete Documentary
http://exopolitics.org/did-us-navy-battle-ufos-protecting-nazi-antarctic-sanctuary-in-1947/
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The folklore never ends..............

Adolf Hitler and the Spear of Destiny
http://charlenecleoeiben.blogspot.com/2012/12/adolf-hitler-and-spear-of-destiny.html

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In the final hours of the war, according to this sailor, Hitler personally selected a man who would later be called “Col. Maximilian Hartmann” to send several of his most prized possessions, including the Spear of Destiny, to Antarctica via submarine – the one on which Bernhart said he had served. Further, Col. Hartmann was alleged to have recovered the real Spear of Destiny, again with aid from Bernhardt, in 1979. According to Buechner and Bernhart the Holy Lance is now in hiding somewhere in Europe, in the possession of the reconvened order of Himmler’s knights, renamed The Knights dof the Holy Lance.

GH85Carrera

02-17-2014 12:32 PM

Those aliens are probably the real source of the deadly chemtrails. I hear it is ground up unicorn horn that is in the chemtrail.

island911

02-17-2014 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 7916215)

Those aliens are probably the real source of the deadly chemtrails. I hear it is ground up unicorn horn that is in the chemtrail.

:D

. . and the source of the newly found double rainbows. whoa.....

MRM	02-17-2014 01:05 PM

The idea of huge caverns at the North and South Poles has been around for a long time. In the 18th and 19th centuries there was a popular belief that at the poles of the world the earth opened up into large caves that ran straight down to the center of the earth. In the Age of Exploration anything fantastical like this seemed possible and somehow the idea struck a cord with the public craving for new scientific understanding.

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe and Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne are two of the most famous stories centered around this belief. There were actually expeditions that set out to travel through these caves to get to the center of the earth.

The alien/Nazi stories are probably the modern day extension of that line of fiction. I kind of think I prefer the Nazi/alien story to Gordon Pym's frozen sailing ship or Axel's crazy Uncle Otto. Uncle Otto? Uncle Otto the German? Hmmm . . . maybe there is more to this phenomenon than I originally thought and the stories we've been told were fiction is just part of the cover-up . . .

rcooled

02-17-2014 02:04 PM

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kach22i

02-17-2014 02:26 PM

The Nazi's did find an antarctic paradise, just not the UFO one imagined.

New Swabia
New Swabia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Eight more flights were made to areas of keen interest and on these trips some of the photos were taken with colour film. Altogether they flew over hundreds of thousands of square kilometres and took more than 16,000 aerial photographs, some of which were published after the war by Ritscher. The ice-free Schirmacher Oasis, which now hosts the Maitri and Novolazarevskaya research stations, was spotted from the air by Richardheinrich Schirmacher (who named it after himself) shortly before the Schwabenland left the Antarctic coast on 6 February 1939.

http://www.echoesofenoch.com/museum%2012historyUFOs.htm
http://www.echoesofenoch.com/Articsubs.jpg

http://www.ottens.co.uk/gatehouse/2013/01/nazis-in-the-antarctic/
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Part of New Swabia isn’t that cold and in fact features a couple of mountain ranges that are ice free the year round. As evidenced by the large Mittelwerk missile assembly site, Nazi Germany had ample experience tunneling and building underground based and factories. Although it would have required quite an effort on the part of the Nazi Government during wartime, it is not altogether impossible that it erected a secret facility in or near the Schirmacher Oasis which the 1938 expedition had discovered. With more than a hundred freshwater lakes and outlets to the sea, it could also have serviced German U-boats.

Heel n Toe

02-17-2014 02:29 PM

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1392676112.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1392676131.jpg

"We finally found one!"

kach22i

02-17-2014 07:38 PM

Operation Highjump
Operation Highjump - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Operation Highjump (OpHjp), officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946-1947, was a United States Navy operation organized by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd Jr., USN (Ret), Officer in Charge, Task Force 68, and led by Rear Admiral Richard H. Cruzen, USN, Commanding Officer, Task Force 68. Operation Highjump commenced 26 August 1946 and ended in late February 1947. Task Force 68 included 4,700 men, 13 ships, and multiple aircraft. The primary mission of Operation Highjump was to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV.[1][...............................................

Admiral Byrd in an interview with Lee van Atta of International News Service aboard the expeditions command ship, the USS Mount Olympus, discussed the lessons learned from the operation. The interview appeared in the Wednesday, March 5, 1947 edition of the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio, and read in part as follows:

Admiral Richard E. Byrd warned today that the United States should adopt measures of protection against the possibility of an invasion of the country by hostile planes coming from the polar regions. The admiral explained that he was not trying to scare anyone, but the cruel reality is that in case of a new war, the United States could be attacked by planes flying over one or both poles. This statement was made as part of a recapitulation of his own polar experience, in an exclusive interview with International News Service. Talking about the recently completed expedition, Byrd said that the most important result of his observations and discoveries is the potential effect that they have in relation to the security of the United States. The fantastic speed with which the world is shrinking – recalled the admiral – is one of the most important lessons learned during his recent Antarctic exploration. I have to warn my compatriots that the time has ended when we were able to take refuge in our isolation and rely on the certainty that the distances, the oceans, and the poles were a guarantee of safety.[8][9]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...rtica_1947.jpg

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USS Sennet (SS-408) participating in Operation Highjump

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U.F.O. Secrets of the Third Reich[edit]
A highly controversial German documentary, UFO — Technology Secrets and the Third Reich. suggests at the end of the hour-long film, that the real reason for the expedition was to seek out a secret German UFO station still operating in the Antarctic.[11]

http://vimeo.com/17740266
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Antarctica Mysteries
from Myles O'Howe 3 years ago NOT YET RATED
Anomalous evidence has been found on Google Earth, via satellite photographs. More independent research is needed. There are implications of some of this evidence. Some evidence has been altered slightly to enhance clarity. The military industrial complex sure found a lot of interest in Antarctica. Why all the secrecy, and obvious smudge applications to scientific data? Confirm for yourself on Google Earth; Water - Latitude:66°12'11.41"S, Longitude:100°56'48.95"E; Structures - Latitude:66°29'56.86"S, Longitude:100° 0'5.99"E
This antarctic evidence reminds me of data from Mars. Original discovery by Joseph P. Skipper, investigator at Mars Anomaly Research.
marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2010/195/antarctica-mysteries.htm
marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2010/196/antarctic-mystery-2.htm
mylesohowe.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/antarctica-mysteries/

RSBob

02-17-2014 09:00 PM

I certainly believe it. But then I believe everything I read. Doesn't everyone? Even the illiterate? Speaking of illiterate, about your coworker...

RWebb

02-17-2014 09:20 PM

If the Germans were there, then maybe we can get some good barn-finds.

livi	02-17-2014 09:26 PM

This is sensational news! Wait ´till I tell..

Steve Carlton

02-17-2014 10:05 PM

A large ship was discovered in the ice in 1982.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1392703511.jpg

BeyGon

02-17-2014 10:05 PM

My ex wife worked at the South Pole, she certainly was alien.

tabs	02-18-2014 01:18 AM

The Byrd statement refers to the fact that long range bombers could fly over the Poles to attack the USA or conversely Russia...that has indeed become fact and not fiction. Norad was created to give advance warning of such an attack by the Russkies...

afterburn 549

02-18-2014 03:41 AM

Even if partly true , yes you could retreat there to warm springs under ground...you still have to eat...
Dam hard to grow a carrot?
a glass of milk?
cheese?
wine?
Ale?
Raw products to make more ?

GH85Carrera

02-18-2014 05:21 AM

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Originally Posted by afterburn 549 (Post 7917412)

Even if partly true , yes you could retreat there to warm springs under ground...you still have to eat...
Dam hard to grow a carrot?
a glass of milk?
cheese?
wine?
Ale?
Raw products to make more ?

They have a replicator like on Star Trek. All ya gotta do is say "Earl Gray, HOT" and presto there it is. It is a handy device for making the other things necessary for comfortable life. And like on Star Trek, no bathroom is ever needed.

kach22i

02-18-2014 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by tabs (Post 7917363)

The Wiki excerpt from the Chilean news paper certainly reads less spooky than the paraphrasing off conspiracy websites.

Byrd indeed foretold of the near future.

He was rather Tabs-like about it too.:D

However he was very creative in his personal diary were apparently he became quite the science fiction novelist. Remember this guy lead a US Navy task force more than once...................perhaps a real Dr. Strangelove.

Hollow Earth Theory
http://www.tokenrock.com/explain-hollow-earth-theory-194.html

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Admiral Richard E. Byrd of the United States Navy flew to the North Pole in 1926 and over the South Pole in 1929.

In his diary, he tells of entering the hollow interior of the earth, along with others and traveling 17 miles over mountains, lakes, rivers, green vegetation, and animal life. He tells of seeing tremendous animals --resembling the mammoths of antiquity moving --through the brush. He eventually found cities and a thriving civilization. The external temperature was 74 degress F.

His airplane was greeted by flying machines of a type he had never seen before. They escorted him to a safe landing area where he was graciously greeted by emissaries from Agartha. After resting, he and his crew, were taken to meet the king and queen of Agartha. They told him that he had been allowed to enter Agartha because of his high moral and ethical character. They went on to say that they worried about the safety of planet due to he bombs and other testing done above the surface by goverments. After the visit Byrd and his crew were guided back to the surface of the planet.

In January of 1956 Admiral Byrd led an expedition to the South Pole. On that expedition he and his crew penetrated down 2,300 miles into the center of the earth. Admiral Byrd stated that the North and South Poles are only two of many openings into the center of the Earth. He wrote about seeing a sun below the Earth.

Kirk911SC

02-18-2014 07:46 AM

Antarctica? :confused:

I thought everyone knew they built a base on the dark side of the moon:

http://theshootening.files.wordpress...-iron-sky.jpeg

:D

GH85Carrera

02-18-2014 07:47 AM

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Originally Posted by kach22i (Post 7917653)

They told him that he had been allowed to enter Agartha because of his high moral and ethical character

That sounds like something L. Ron Hubbard would write. I guess ole L. Ron had a wilder imagination but that is pretty far out there.

kach22i

02-18-2014 07:52 AM

Entrance To Agartha Found?
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/47broth...gartha_M03.jpg
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/46ats_m...1b8b6e8006.jpg

Looks like a natural formation to me.

sammyg2

02-18-2014 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 7917470)

. And like on Star Trek, no bathroom is ever needed.

Then what about captain's log?

zombies are real .... and they're coming.

kach22i

02-18-2014 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by sammyg2 (Post 7917719)

zombies are real .... and they're coming.

Be prepared.

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ac911az

02-18-2014 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by BeyGon (Post 7917273)

My ex wife worked at the South Pole, she certainly was alien.

:D good one

red-beard

02-18-2014 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 7917470)

They use transporters to evacuate those areas. I expect the reprocess it...

kach22i

02-18-2014 01:20 PM

PLANTS
Antarctica Growing Green With Grass
APR 5, 2011 09:00 AM ET // BY TIM WALL
Antarctica Growing Green With Grass : Discovery News
http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/blogs/6...970b-800wi.jpg
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The rapid warming of the Antarctic has been a boon for two native plants. As the temperature warms ancient peat decomposes into a nitrogen buffet for the Antarctic pearlwort (Colobanthus quitensis) and Antarctic hairgrass (Deschampsia antarctica).

Antarctica going green due to climate change
Antarctica going green due to climate change - Telegraph
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...r_1787716c.jpg

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A team of UK and Australian scientists has found that the hairgrass has spread over the last 50 years due to global warming

"Crazy Green" Algae Pools Seen in Antarctic Sea
Water's teeming life "exceeds all expectations," scientist says.
"Crazy Green" Algae Pools Seen in Antarctic Sea
[IMG][url]http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/326/cache/green-pools-antarctica-algae_32618_600x450.jpg[/IMG]

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Such an algae explosion may actually be a climate boon, since the plants gobble up more of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide—but only to a point, she warned.

kach22i

02-18-2014 01:29 PM

http://www.wanderlustcharters.com/port/Newsletter/tabid/86/EntryId/20/BVI-Rated-Top-Destination.aspx
http://www.wanderlustcharters.com/po...ion_island.jpg

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Deception Island Hot Springs, Antarctica. Deception Island, Deception Island Anarticain the Antarctic Peninsula, has natural springs that offer bathers an other worldly experience: Amidst the ice and snow, in a setting where you can watch 'bergs sailing past, you can immerse yourself in waters delightfully warm. One minute you're shivering in your polar fleece, the next you're swimming in what might as well be bath water.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/crabs-hither-shrimp-thither
https://www.sciencenews.org/sites/default/files/15362

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In the waters off Antarctica at the southernmost seafloor vents where hot water percolates from below, piles of hairy crabs swarm in the thousands.

Antarctica - Wojciech Dabrowski
http://www.kontynenty.net/Ant088.jpg

Antarctic Hot Springs Yields Ghostly New Species
JAN 3, 2012 03:00 AM ET // BY ERIC NIILER
Antarctic Hot Springs Yields Ghostly New Species : Discovery News
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A newly found deep-sea hot springs off Antarctica is host to an array of new species.

I've read elsewhere that there are vast underground lakes of warm water under the surface along with a network of caverns, both in the ice and in the rocky soil. I have so far been unable to locate ultra-sound or infa-red maps of them - which could prove to be interesting.

http://www.shsu.edu/~chm_tgc/Blogs/AB4.html
http://www.shsu.edu/~chm_tgc/Blogs/Spring.jpg

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Sampling the only geothermal lagoon in Antarctica
The temperature at the mouth of the spring was 52.6°C on February 22, 2013.

I've recently read that +50% of all of earth's "bio-mass" is in the soil, be it on land or under the sea floor.

Researchers Retrieve Water and Sediment Samples from Subglacial Lake Whillans
January 30, 2013
http://scitechdaily.com/researchers-retrieve-water-and-sediment-samples-from-subglacial-lake-whillans/
http://scitechdaily.com/images/aquat...-ice-sheet.jpg

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An artist’s representation of the aquatic system scientists believe is buried beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. Credit: Zina Deretsky, NSF

I wonder if the planet Mars is much like the illustration above.

GH85Carrera

02-18-2014 01:43 PM

That spring must suck to get OUT of.

How fast can you get dried off and dressed?

kach22i

02-18-2014 01:49 PM

Icebound: 10 Amazing Historical Abandonments Antarctica | Urbanist
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(image via: Luminous Landscape)

February 7, 2012
Nazi Swastika Found In Ancient Antarctica Lake Sparks Russian Fears
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
Nazi Swastika Found In Ancient Antarctica Lake Sparks Russian Fears
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A shocking Ministry of Defense report on the Russian scientific team [photo top left] that has successfully drilled 3,768 meters into the world’s largest submerged lake on the continent of Antarctica, believed to be untouched for over 20 million years, states that the underwater video camera discovered the “striking image” of a “golden-like swastika” estimated to be no less than 100 meters in height and width.................................

Far from its being the symbol of the Nazi Empire, the swastika is our world’s oldest known symbol that dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization of Ancient India, as well as Classical Antiquity, and due to the extreme amount of time estimated in the millions of years since man last looked into the depths of Lake Vostok, it is entirely possible that what has now been discovered in Antarctica may very well be another clue to who we are and where we really come from.

The evidence for this “golden swastika” predating the Nazis is further bolstered by the Finaeus (1531) and Piri Reis (1513) maps of Antarctica used by Western explorers to “discover” the New World and showing it to be ice free with flowing rivers, drainage patterns and a clean coastline.

Below is the mysterious map which gets some people all excited. It supposedly shows Antarctica's land mass accurate despite being covered by miles of ice.

Antarctica Map Piri Reis 1513
Aquarian Age: Antarctica maps
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tY90c9U_Sd...+Reis+1513.jpg

kach22i

02-18-2014 01:56 PM

Lake Vostok
Lake Vostok - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The lake was drilled into by Russian scientists in 2012. The overlying ice provides a continuous paleoclimatic record of 400,000 years, although the lake water itself may have been isolated for 15 [7][8] to 25 million years.[9] On 5 February 2012, a team of Russian scientists claimed to have completed the longest ever ice core of 3,768 m (12,400 ft) and pierced the ice shield to the surface of the lake.[10] As soon as the ice was pierced, water from the underlying lake gushed up the borehole.[11]

The first core of freshly frozen lake ice was obtained on 10 January 2013 at a depth of 3,406 m (11,175 ft),[12] and it is yet to be analyzed.[13] The Russian team plans to lower a probe into the lake to collect water samples and sediments from the bottom. It is hypothesized that unusual forms of life could be found in the lake's liquid layer, a fossil water reserve. Lake Vostok contains an environment sealed off below the ice for millions of years, in conditions which could resemble those of the hypothesized ice-covered ocean of Jupiter's moon Europa.[14][15]

Michael Studinger's Homepage on Subglacial Lakes and Lake Vostok
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~mstudi...artoon_low.jpg

Russian Antarctica Team Poised to Reach the 14-Million Year Old Waters of Lake Vostok -a Prehistoric Laboratory
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/.a/6a00d8...77db2fe970c-pi

Category: Lake Vostok | Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT
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No, nothing here about German submarines and cloning Hitler...........................

It says here that the drill team, which made haste to leave the project till next year's summer, allowed some of the lake water to rise into the drill string a short distance, got evidence it froze, and will let next year's crew retrieve some for analysis. Seems entirely sensible. No fear, one gathers, that when they get back then will find that the whole lake has geysered back up the pipe, lacquered the landscape in fresh ice suffused with tiny, dead, alien-looking beasties, and generally written fiasco on the whole deal. But wouldn't that be a story? - See more at: http://ksj.mit.edu/tracker/2012/02/update-ap-etc-its-official-russians-dril#sthash.8WAR9GlL.dpuf

http://www.antartidaurbana.com/naturaleza/lago-vostok/?lang=en
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Lake Vostok is one of the mysteries of Antarctica. It is an enormous lake, more than 250 km. long and50 km. wide, buried 3.748 meters deep under an immense layer of ice. It’s water is one of the most awaited samples by scientists who work in the continent..................

Lake Vostok’s drilling is one of the biggest achievements of science in the last years. It is the result of almost 20 years of work and a titanic fight against weather conditions and the adversities of the most inhospitable continent on Earth.

M.D. Holloway

02-18-2014 03:25 PM

So where are the results?

kach22i

02-18-2014 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by M.D. Holloway (Post 7918513)

So where are the results?

June 7, 2013
Antarctica's hidden Lake Vostok found to teem with life - NBC News

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More than 3,500 different DNA sequences were identified in samples extracted from layers of ice that have built up just above the surface of the lake. About 95 percent of them were associated with types of bacteria, 5 percent of them had the hallmarks of more complex organisms known as eukaryotes, and two of the sequences were linked to a distinct class of one-celled organisms called archaea.

No big fish, no three eyed aliens, and no dead Nazi's.

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"While the current conditions are different than earlier in its history, the lake seems to have maintained a surprisingly diverse community of organisms," the researchers wrote. "These organisms may have slowly adapted to the changing conditions in Lake Vostok during the past 15-35 million years as the lake converted from a terrestrial system to a subglacial system."

http://media3.s-nbcnews.com/j/stream...ux-640-520.jpg

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3,500+ species discovered in Lake Vostok, underneath miles of ice, in conditions similar to Jupiter’s Europa
By Graham Templeton on July 8, 2013 at 1:47 pm
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/160667-3500-species-discovered-in-lake-vostok-underneath-miles-of-ice-in-conditions-similar-to-jupiters-europa
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Most interesting is that the life they found is not entirely bacterial. Several hundred species of eukaryotic organisms also live in the water, including over 100 multicellular species. They even found species that are generally associated with mollusks and fish, leading one researcher to say that the lake “might have fish,” before quickly backpedaling..........................

This finding shows, though, how long life can survive on how little energy. Could life survive a trip through space on an asteroid? Lake Vostok shows us how few environments we really can discount in our search for life in the universe.

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And yet, here we are. Having found living organisms in similarly isolated caves, in the burning mouths of volcanoes, and even floating in the Earth’s upper atmosphere, perhaps it shouldn’t have come as such a surprise to find life in these waters. In March, researchers confirmed the existence of a genuine Vostok-dwelling bacterium. It was a species never characterized before, which was exciting, but the assumption was that this was a plucky survivor hanging on by the skin of its teeth. Now, however, it seems the species revealed a few months ago is just one of a thriving community living in this most extreme of environments.

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