Science

Radio Silence From Researchers Drilling Into 20-Million-Year-Old Antarctic Lake

With only three days left before a team of researchers is to return home after drilling into a 20-million-year-old lake under 13,000 feet of Antarctic ice, radio communication has gone silent on their end.

(Update: Russian team drilling toward 20-million-year-old Antarctic lake reportedly reaches goal)

Radio Contact Lost From Russian Team Drilling Into Lake Vostok in Antarctica for 20 Million Year Old Water

Lake Vostok in Antarctica is buried under 13,000 feet of ice and is about the size of Lake Ontario.

BBC reported last week that the crew – set to come home on Feb. 6 while the weather is still good enough for a plane to land — was only 50 meters away from reaching their desired depth to access Lake Vostok after drilling nonstop for weeks in -66 degree Celsius weather

Now, the Daily Mail reports, that colleagues in the United States lost contact with the Russian team. The scientists are digging to the long-untouched water to help provide clues to what earlier conditions on Earth were like.

Radio Contact Lost From Russian Team Drilling Into Lake Vostok in Antarctica for 20 Million Year Old Water

Satellite image of Lake Vostok. (Image via Daily Mail)

The Daily Mail has more on the situation:

A support team in the U.S. has been unable to make radio contact with the crew on the ice for the past five days.

The drilling operation is highly intricate — and dangerous.There is a risk of explosion from oxygen and nitrogen trapped in the lake.

The Daily Mail reports that machinery will not drill directly into the lake, as researchers don’t want it to touch the water, but there are concerns that too much water could forcibly come shooting up the hole. Up to a quarter of the water of the lake, which is similar in size to Lake Ontario, could shoot out in the worst case scenario, according to the scientists.

Radio Contact Lost From Russian Team Drilling Into Lake Vostok in Antarctica for 20 Million Year Old Water

Supplies traveling to the Vostok Antarctic research station. (Image via Daily Mail)

Fox News reports John Priscu, professor of ecology at Montana State University who is heading up a similar Antarctic exploration program, as saying the temperature will only get colder now that winter is setting in:

The team’s disappearance could not come at a worse time: They are about 40 feet from their goal of reaching the body of water, Priscu explained, a goal that the team was unable to meet as they raced the coming winter exactly one year ago.

When the winter arrives in the next few weeks, the temperature can get twice as cold. Vostok Station boasts the lowest recorded temperature on Earth: -89.4 degrees Celsius (-129 degrees Fahrenheit).

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“Ice isn’t like rock, it’s capable of movement,” Dr. Priscu told FoxNews.com. “So in order to keep the hole from squeezing shut, they put a fluid in the drill called kerosene. Kerosene also grows bacteria, and there’s about 65 tons of kerosene in that hole. It would be a disaster if that kerosene contaminated this pristine lake.”

But the scientists came up with a clever way to make sure this debacle would not occur. They agreed to drill until a sensor warned them of free water. At that point they will take out the right amount of kerosene and adjust the pressure so that none of the liquids fall into the lake, but rather lake water would rise through the hole.

Fox reports Priscu as saying he has some concern for his colleagues but with the drama of how the water would be extracted and now lack of communication, notes that it makes for an interesting plot for a Hollywood movie.

Fox states that it contacted the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute but did not receive a response.

In the mean time, scientists wait with bated breath for both the Russian team and news of the samples from pristine, 20-million-year-old water they could bring back.

Comments (260)

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  • Cole
    Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:12am

    I‘m gonna play the optimist here and say maybe they went silent because they found something cool and don’t want to leak it right away. “the thing” references this story is getting due fit nicely lol. I really would be interested to see what they found if anything was.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:22am

      I guess Hollywood is already writing a script for the new movie, “Ice Aliens”…..

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:59am

      Based on my extensive knowledge, gained through years of watching sci-fi movies, it’s quite obvious that monsters from space escaped through the hole they drilled and ate their brains…….:D

      Report Post » TXPilot  
    • The-Monk
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 1:04am

      @TXPilot
      …. ate their frozen brains…..

      Report Post » The-Monk  
    • Conservitive Ticker
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 1:11am

      I see another remake of “The Thing!”

      Report Post » Conservitive Ticker  
    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 1:16am

      @TXPILOT

      Lol, so true.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 1:23am

      They found Barrack Obama’s real birth certificate, he had them silenced.

      Report Post » Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra  
    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 1:42am

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouZkkIsLiNg

      Report Post » RepubliCorp  
    • cyclops
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 1:59am

      Oh oh….I can see another Leviathan movie in the making…………….LOL!!!!!!

      Report Post » cyclops  
    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 2:17am

      The bitter cold made one of the resistors in their ham radio brittle and it broke off. I bet they did not watch the movie Red Tent and they don’t have a graphite pencil handy.

      No graphite pencil in Antarctica = frozen meat popsicle.

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    • FreedomPurveyor
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 2:48am

      I think it’s pretty obvious that they inadvertently unleashed an army of the undead. Undead Atlantians.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 5:48am

      Or it is just the solar flares that are so active this week.

      But I’ll go w/ @TXPILOT on this one!! Clearly the aliens got them.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 6:45am

      Indeed it would be nice to maintain the positive and hope they have made some monumental discovery; maybe its just a communications failure of their equipment.

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    • TRUTHandFREEDOM
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 8:23am

      Wait! Wait! Wait!

      Shouldn’t we send global warming advocates down there with some CO2, deceitfully obtained American wealth and a book on over regulation and dependency to set up a Propaganda and Oppression society to melt that stuff down?

      And just wondering, was that lake once exposed to …. warm air?

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    • Bluefish49
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 8:59am

      My guess is when the site is finally visited they will find no bodies. No bodies no crime. Who knows what geo political fanancial ramifications could be involved here if they have actually found something earth shaking.

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    • Junter
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 9:01am

      With Russia expect any findings not to be shared. Somehow they will twist history in their favor again and again.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 9:53am

      .
      “they put a fluid in the drill called kerosene. ”
      Now there’s some cutting edge science.
      Correct me if I misread this, but they went to get old water,
      but aren’t going to break through to where the old water is,
      for fear the old water is under great pressure.

      This must be a Russian “earmark” The drill bit to nowhere.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 9:54am

      Aww, c’mon guys- we all know what happened- we’re just afraid to admit it.
      Goreball warming has cracked the ice shelf off and they’ve sunk to the bottomless crevasse.
      Disney already did the movie.

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    • Bluefish49
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 10:58am

      Could be or they drilled down and lowered a camera and viewed the top of the Empire State Building…..those damned filthy apes!!!!!

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    • donh2
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 11:13am

      The Thing trailer..>> http://youtu.be/ouZkkIsLiNg

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    • islamhater
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 11:19am

      Did they find something or did something find them.http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=nIgah2-kuxw

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 11:27am

      Scientists will destroy the world-They can‘t guarantee they won’t contaminate the lake with kerosene, but they will do it anyway. They probably awakened a giant critter trapped in the ice for centuries. Shouldn’t they be worried about release greenhouse gas or something like that?

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    • cyclops
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 11:55am

      Oh man, they are being detained by the Abominable Snowman………………LOL!!!!!

      Report Post » cyclops  
    • VigilantGuardShark
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:40pm

      Maybe the scientists are involved in a life or death struggle between two factions of Alien forces;Alien vs Preditor fans know what I’m talking about.

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    • AnOregonian
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 1:28pm

      It’s the “Phoboians striking again….

      Keeping Russia from their mars moon base as well as the one under the antarctic ice. Any Russian equipment or technical failure can be quickly ruled out, they simply don’t make those kinds of mistakes.

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    • USAMEDIC3008
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 1:41pm

      May have went to far and ended up
      in Santa’s toy factory

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    • stormcrow53
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 1:58pm

      @ truthandfreedom: Please, don’t be mucking it up for the Foreign Dictator and his Marxist cadres.

      Report Post » stormcrow53  
    • southernORcobra
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 5:02pm

      Oh no the THING got them

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 5:53pm

      The following slightly related story may come in handy, later.

      See here.

      Branson Says 15 Degrees Below Normal Antarctic Temperatures Are Due To Global Warming
      http://www.climatedepot.com/a/14659/Branson-Says-15-Degrees-Below-Normal-Antarctic-Temperatures-Are-Due-To-Global-Warming

      “Flashback 1947: Antarctic Oasis, land free of ice”

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    • american1st
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 6:57pm

      “a team of archaeologists assembled by billionaire Charles Bishop Weyland (Henriksen) for an expedition near the Antarctic to investigate a mysterious heat signal. Weyland hopes to claim the find for himself, and his group discovers a pyramid below the surface of a whaling station. Hieroglyphs and sculptures reveal that the pyramid is a hunting ground for Predators who kill Aliens as a rite of passage. The humans are caught in the middle of a battle between the two species and attempt to prevent the Aliens from reaching the surface.”

      i think i have seen this movie…

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    • onthefrontline
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 7:41pm

      Is obama funding this with Our tax Money, DOJ coverup…
      Geithner printing more money ??????
      13,000 feet of ice, don’t think the Polar Bears will be
      Homeless anytime soon !! Think we should send Gore
      to the RESCUE..Justice would be served if this POS
      would freez to death..Global Warming my AZZ..

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    • Jabber
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 10:41pm

      Does it bother anyone that AL GORE and RICHARD BRANSON are actually IN Antarctica right now? Did the scientists find evidence that the globe is NOT warming and Al had them killed to shut them up?????????

      http://www.looktothestars.org/news/7779-al-gore-and-richard-branson-blog-climate-change-from-antarctica

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    • teamarcheson
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 11:25pm

      What if its oil? How much would a lake of oil be worth? Would Russia own it all?

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    • BoredWithLibs
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:41am

      Didn’t you see the Alien versus Predator (and Humans) that was set in the Antarctic?

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 6:17am

      LOL
      65 tons of kerosene. And you and I are in trouble with the EPA if we spill a PINT of motor oil !
      ( which came out of the ground to begin with)
      Ahhh, the hypocrisy of the “reasoning” mind – scientists who hide behind claims of “logic” when attacking religion, but toss it out the window when it comes to justifying their perpetual, government-teat grants, ala global ice age, er, global warming, er, global climate change… aww, who cares as long as it is global, so we can use it to force others to do as we say, and not as we do.

      Igor, “OOPS-nee!”
      Boris, “no problem, comrade, wall street occupiers deliver much bottled, artesian well water from their true mother Russia”
      ManBearPig, “da, es pravda, comrade!” (hands Boris a conviently pre-bottled, pre-labelled “sample” he just happened to have with him. Label reads (in Russian & Chinese),
      “conclusive proof of global warming, cooling, and other global ‘stuff’.
      Bottled by The Primordial Soup Co.
      Sell by: February 4, 20,000,000B.C. / 20,000,000 B.C.E. “

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 5:15pm

      Congressman Hank Johnson said yesterday, “If they had camped in the middle and not near the edge the Antarctic would not have tipped over and capsized”.

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    • lylejk
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 10:16pm

      Darn; The-Monk beat me to it. lol

      Found the spaceship from Battlestar Galactica that started the whole human she-bang. lol

      :)

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    • rlgoodin
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 10:55pm

      I think something bad happened, 65 ton of kerosene, very high pressure water, and other hazards make for a very dangerous mission. Why hasn’t some one flown out to see what happened? My bet… An Accident and dead Russians or embarrassed Russians that fled to Moscow and a 65 million year old lake filled with kerosene. Sad, very sad. I’ll pray.

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:27am

      @COLE that was my thought.

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 10:47am

      someone is not telling the truth, msnbc reported ice was melting in Antartica, and this story said it was -66 degrees. Unless ice melts at a different temperature at the South pole?

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:24pm

      I believe I‘ve seen this movie it’s called the THING

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  • wbaranowski
    Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:04am

    Here’s your headline: “Samples from billion year old pool reveal H2O with same character as Bronx tap water.”

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 2:20am

      Maybe that was what happened. They drank the water from the lake and it was as deadly as Bronx tap water!

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  • Jenasus
    Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:04am

    Another man made disaster is in the works. They probably accidently blew themselves up our released a new deadly disease that kills on contact. Maybe they know to much and were taken out for lunch. Loose lips sink ships.

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  • fukjihad
    Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:00am

    I looked at the author’s picture at the top of the article, she appears older than 6th grade, but kerosine is apparently a new substance to her.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:04am

      Dr Evil…… ““LASERS””!

      Report Post » The-Monk  
    • kevinj319
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:17am

      The statement you mention is enclosed in something called quotation marks. These quotation marks indicate those are the words of someone other than the author. In this case, they are the words of John Priscu, professor of ecology at Montana State University.

      You fail.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 1:06am

      @kevinj319
      Those are Dr. Evil’s finger quotations… ““LASERS”” Watch the movie!

      Report Post » The-Monk  
    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 2:08am

      “Give me a Freaking break”…….Dr Evil.

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    • Valkaneer
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 10:49am

      @KEVINJ319 I do believe John Priscu phrased it that way because he believes the media is so stupid they most likely do not know what kerosene is. Why else would he call it a “fluid” which would be a very simple, basic definition.

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    • amdoktor
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 11:29am

      65 tons of Kerosene ? This is a excellent idea. Lets take a chance on poisoning the last reserve of
      pristine water on this planet. If by chance they hit air pocket above the water or oxygen causes a explosion, the lake is polluted for the rest of time. I think the cold has caused frozen brain syndrome.

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    • 338_LM
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 1:25pm

      Any time you hear #s, be skeptical. 65 tons sounds like a lot, especially if you’re trying to lift it without giving yourself a hernia. I’m guessing kerosene is similar to diesel in specific gravity, so it’s gonna be around 7 lbs/gallon. 65 tons of it would be 130,000 lbs, or 18,571 gallons. If the lake is similar in size to Lake Ontario, that’s 393 cubic miles. A cubic mile is approx. 1.1 trillion gallons, so it holds approx. 432 trillion gallons. 18,571 gallons onto that is 4 BILLIONTH of one percent, or 0.000000004%. I’d drink that, no worries. Somebody check my math, eh?

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    • TROONORTH
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 8:57pm

      Something doesn’t make sense. Do you know what it would cost to ship 65 tons of kerosene to Antarctica and then fly it out to lake Woe-be-gone? As well, how much room is there around that drill and casing? Enough for all that liquid? Something fishy and it is not coming from the lake. (although something may have come from the lake!!!!)

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  • redogcamaro
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:58pm

    Thats not too cold, in Alaska we have worked (myself included) in 69 below fahrenheit weather and after about 40 below it really doesn’t matter as long as there is no wind. Steel gets brittle though and that might have something to do with what happened to them. Hope there OK. They should ask people up here to mount a rescue, we have the knowledge & equipment to do the job.

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  • SIXFRIGATES
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:57pm

    Anyone else thinking what I’m thinking? Ya… AVP.

    Report Post » SIXFRIGATES  
  • Tretka
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:52pm

    Blaze, keep on this story.

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  • sillyfreshness
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:48pm

    Coasttocoastam did a report on it last night, but didn’t mention the lost radio contact. Kind of weird. Who knows what lies beneath?

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    • chalkdust
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:52am

      Actually, they kept the guest over because the story broke. I honestly thought it was theatrics. Guess I was wrong.

      Report Post » chalkdust  
  • TRILO
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:46pm

    So let me get this straight. They are filling the hole they are drilling to get to the most pure water on earth with poison. And we are to believe that all will work out just grand. I suppose that these are the same bozo’s that keep preaching to us about global warming.

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    • sdranger
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 9:06am

      Let me get this right. The greenies don’t want us to FRAC in the US, drill for oil in Alaska, build the Keystone Pipline accross the Ogalla aquifer, but they don’t have a problem drilling into a ancient lake. On top of that using Kerosene for a winterizer! WOW who woulda thunk?

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  • mcmeador
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:43pm

    “With only three days left before the team of researchers drilling into a 20-million-year-old lake under 13,000 feet of Antarctic ice, radio communication has gone silent on their end.”

    With only three days left before the team does what……..?

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:12am

      Only 3 days left before they run out of #1 diesel to keep the generators and radios going…..Opps, a slight miscalculation!

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    • kevinj319
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:25am

      Yes. The first sentence of the article is nonsensical.

      Proofreading.

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    • Polarized America
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 1:43am

      It’s from the Daily Mail in the UK, I’ve been there many times and a lot of there stuff is confusing

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    • burnteye86
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 5:56pm

      …..radio communication has gone silent on their end.

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:38pm

    Sounds like the movie, “The Thing”…. scared the dickens out of when I was a young lad!

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    • palerider54
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:50pm

      The thing and another movie where a young William Shatner (sp?) about a gremlin on the wing of an airplane at night and he was the only one to see it, scared me so bad I would not go near a window after dark. I would walk on the other side of the room to avoid looking out the window.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:00am

      @palerider54
      Yes, The Twilight Zone…. I remember that one well. And he was…….. RIGHT!!!!!! Ahhhhhh!!!!

      Report Post » The-Monk  
    • chalkdust
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:54am

      There’s….something on the wing! And it was John Lithgow.

      Report Post » chalkdust  
    • The-Monk
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 1:01am

      @chalkdust
      Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!! Not… John…. Lithgow!

      Report Post » The-Monk  
    • Deep_Thoughts
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 11:59am

      @ChalkDust, it was william shatner in the original. learn yourself some movies

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    • 70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 10:17pm

      That’s were they left the blob in the 1958 movie “The Blob”.

      Report Post » 70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM  
  • MrMagoo
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:36pm

    “When the winter arrives in the next few weeks, the temperature can get twice as cold. Vostok Station boasts the lowest recorded temperature on Earth: -89.4 degrees Celsius (-129 degrees Fahrenheit).”

    That’s some cold,cold Earth.Makes me wanna put on some shorts and a tee shirt,walk out in the backyard and enjoy my balmy 28 degrees Fahrenheit!

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:56pm

      According to Al Gore it should be warm enough there for the ice to be melting? If they drill down a couple of kilometers they should hit Al Gore’s 2 million degree temps he brags about.

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    • right-wing-waco
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:12am

      -129 degrees F. The global warming is really rampant in the Antarctic. Do something quick. Now, shouldn’t the Arctic, (north pole), be similar when winter is in the northern hemisphere?

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    • eric6161
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:42pm

      I don’t like the term “twice as cold.“ I much prefer the term ”half as warm“ and feel the person who is being quoted is most likely an affirmative action ”scientist” or he’s one who feels the need to talk down to us. Absolute zero is approximately -273C. This means that if the the least warm it has ever been on Earth was -89.4C or +184K(Kelvin) then to be twice as warm the temperature would have had to have been +368K or +95C or 203F.

      So, in other words to be twice as cold or half as warm it must go from near boiling (203F/95C) to -89.4C NOT from -66C to -89.4C.

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  • oldironsides
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:31pm

    Ecologists didn’t raise a fuss? This sounds crazy. A quarter of a great lake coming out of the hole? Talk about melting the ice. 65 tons of kerosine? They’re just asking for disaster. Who comes up with this ?

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  • supressorgrid
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:28pm

    Good thing they did not use coal oil. Although kerosene is also known as number 1 diesel. If they cut through the ice and that water at that depth is pressurised the diesel could compress enough to ignite creating one hell of a fuel air bomb.

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  • Echelon
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:27pm

    A perfect enema for Obama!

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  • Chocolate_Cracker
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:24pm

    whats 65 TONS of kerosene going to do to the lake…UNfkbeleivable

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  • Conservative Christian
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:22pm

    blaze got this wrong. nothing on this earth is 20 million years old

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    • hillbillyheartthrob
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:30pm

      What do you mean ? Why cant anything on earth be 20 million years old ?

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    • FreedomPurveyor
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:45pm

      Nothing is 20 million years old? Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, and Earth is over 4 billion years old.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:52pm

      Rachel Welch did a movie about 19 million years ago called, “One Million Years BC”. Doesn’t that add up yo 20 millions years? { :>)

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 2:03am

      The monk, I remember her as a comely shapely female… boy she’s that old already? How time flies by…

      Report Post » Twobyfour  
    • supressorgrid
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:45pm

      Some jokes are.

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    • supressorgrid
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:46pm

      Jome jokes are that old.

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    • Conservative Christian
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 2:08pm

      God made this Earth 5000-15000 years ago. therefore, nothing is 20 million years old

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  • BONETRAUMA
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:21pm

    Dude, my a$$ is like WOW!

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  • Patrick Henry II
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:19pm

    You do not drill a well inside of an enclosure. Who knows what will come up. H2S will kill you before you hit the ground. Very quick death.

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:26pm

      predator vs alein

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    • Black Midge
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 12:17am

      Compressed methane, nitrogen, kerosene, drilling from an enclosure, some real risky stuff.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 2:05am

      “This is how we do things in Russia!”

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    • ArgumentumAdAbsurdum
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 2:44am

      @twobyfour
      I believe its “In Soviet Russia, hole drills you”. Or something along those lines.

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 3:07am

      Were referring to one of the Armageddon flicks where a Russian team member on a space shuttle was banging some box with a wrench to get the engine started. After it did start, he made the above quoted pronouncement.

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  • timbofire
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:19pm

    Instead of “going where no man has gone before” maybe it’s “going where no man should have gone in the first place”

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    • Do The Right Thing
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 12:17am

      That is one comment I thoroughly agree with. What are they thinking, to inject 3 semi loads of kerosene down the hole, as well? They have to be looking for hydrocarbons, what next, are they planning to bottle the water and sell it to Americans? I remember once, in Walmart, reading the label on a gallon jug of water being marketed as ‘baby water’. Source- Chicago IL. PTW (abbreviation for public treatment works) yeah, thats some water that oughtta be good for your toddler. Cute picture of a happy little baby on the label, though.

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  • TyrannyNoMore
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:16pm

    They were overrun by penguins with happy feet !

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 2:25am

      At that temp, penguin’s feet would be frozen solid. They’d be unhappy feet, provided they’d be still attached to the penguin.

      Conclusion: quite unlikely.

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  • Patrick Henry II
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:14pm

    I think I saw that movie. Predator v Alien

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  • randy
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:09pm

    they put a fluid in the drill called kerosene. ???

    A fluid called Kerosene….? Is the lake filled with a fluid call Water?

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 2:09am

      No, they put a fluid called kerosene in the drill. The drill is definitely not called “kerosene”.

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    • Snidely
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 3:36pm

      2X4, I believe Randy’s point is that nearly everyone knows what kerosene is. Like everyone knows what water is. Up until ten minutes ago, I thought that everyone knew what kerosene was.I guess there‘s a few out there that don’t. Probably lunch scholars.

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  • randy
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:08pm

    Sounds like an episode of X Files

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    • ArgumentumAdAbsurdum
      Posted on February 4, 2012 at 2:14am

      I was thinking the same, except they were in alaska. I just watched that episode the other day.

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  • possom
    Posted on February 3, 2012 at 11:05pm

    The thing has returned!

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