REAL BREAKING NEWS: LAKE VOSTOK SCIENTISTS NOT RESPONDING IN ANTARTICA....

lots of useful links and drop off points for research in that one

dr

I wonder what the CO2 levels in that water are like. Under all that pressure, popping the cork on that lake may well be like opening a dropped bottle of soda water.

It's possible.

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from the same link:

So what's happening? Two thoughts immediately spring to mind:

One is that some "Special Project" has, against all scientific and environmental prudence, indeed drilled through the ice into the Lake Vostok eco-system (clandestinely, of course). And, the participants have suddenly found themselves exposed to "something" for which their bodies literally have no immunity -- something not extant in the rest of Earth's biosphere for between 13,000 and several million years! After the initial reports of "four emergency extractions," the number changed to five ... and now twelve McMurdo personnel are supposedly in need of a dangerous, "emergency medical evacuation" well into the Antarctic winter season. At one level, this has all the earmarks of "something" virulently spreading among the limited winter population at the Base, something that even the fairly complete medical facilities at McMurdo can no longer cope with. Complicating the picture is the fact that the "extractees" are not research scientists or long-term support personnel, but are all employees of Raytheon Corporation -- a high-tech firm that is deeply involved in a variety of black-ops programs for the U.S. government all around the world.

This idea (that these two simultaneous "emergencies" are actually due to some kind of "black ops fiasco" in Antarctica) is reinforced by another little noticed story coming out of the Amundson-Scott Base -- that the doctor being brought in (to replace the ailing doctor) has been asked to also bring in "an emergency supply of salt." She's even been asked to "stuff her own pockets full of salt packets," ostensibly because there is "no room on the rescue aircraft itself." This is obviously a silly, thinly-veiled "cover story" ... designed to tell someone "outside" ... "something." Salt is crucial to survival in outdoor conditions in Antarctica. The air is so dry, that unless someone exposed to the outdoors there has a good supply of salt, they are likely to face the possibility of death by mineral depletion and dehydration. Obviously the Base, after years of operation, would have a pretty good handle on just how much salt is needed until the next re-supply plane arrives. So how is it that they suddenly find themselves desperately without any of it left?!

Maybe, because they suddenly had a unique situation. Maybe because a team of scientists and engineers from Raytheon spent a lot of unplanned days out on the windswept ice, frantically drilling against the clock, in an all-out effort to break through to the Lake below -- and in the process, used far more than the normal complement of salt to survive.

The other possibility for the sudden, simultaneous "evacuations" is even more extraordinary.

What if these Raytheon black ops personnel did indeed find "something" in their secret drilling under Vostok -- and needed to get it back to civilization ASAP for in-depth study. Under this scenario, the whole idea of an "outbreak" is simply a ruse to cover the need for a large airplane (a New Zealand C-130 Hercules) dramatically visiting McMurdo at a time never attempted in all its years before: the only "way out" for something very important from the Continent. How do you cover such an operation? Put all the medical hints out there, and wait for the Internet conspiracists to "figure out" that there has been some kind of outbreak at McMurdo (there has been NO official confirmation of this theory, by the way), all the while covering your real agenda -- which is to get your hands on a genuine artifact from "Zep-Tepi" before the dead of the Antarctic winter makes any such attempt this year impossible!

lots of useful links and drop off points for research in that one

dr

Technically, it's a prequel. Semantics, I know; but I'm a nitpicker.

The original is better... Carpenters is really good.... last year's remake was fucking awful.

I agree. After reading the pdf there from the last Australian-based observation team I have to wonder what's happening with the Russian station. How do you safely store Freon over the longterm in sub-zero temps?

hmmmm interesting

sci adventure

Good riddance. Just another set of scientist fucking something up.

go to google and search "lake vostok news"

youll find:
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and a fox news report, too.

Paraphrasing, the article says that they either found something amazing and are covering it up, or its a catastrophe that coincidentally have catastrophe right when they make worldwide news about unearthing a polar ocean that hasnt seen light in 20 MILLION YEARS.

Good point..it is a prequel in my book....but Wiki's definition applies to both.

'A sequel is a...Movie...that continues the story of or expands upon issues presented in some previous work.'

'A prequel is a work that supplements a previously completed one, and has an earlier time setting.'

Nonetheless, as good as Carpenter's is, is the new film worth watching? If only to find out how related it is to this.

if i remember correctly from my time living in alaska,
there is a point around -40 where
celcius and farenheit line up.

i think you should not be so fast on the retard.

Didn't I read somewhere that they have kerosene in that shaft? An explosion occurred perhaps?

"I wonder what the CO2 levels" actually they say it is oxygen that is 50 times normal oxygen, so sounds like big explosion time to me.

It's possible.

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