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Denninmi

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21. I just had a sad thought.

Thu Feb 9, 2012, 06:04 AM

Feb 2012

Somewhere out there, some corporate idiot is trying to figure out some way to tap this in the future for 'Vostock Brand Premium Antarctic Glacial Spring Water, Bottled at the Source for Quality and Purity".

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Russian scientists confirm triumph at Antarctic lake isolated under miles of ice for millions of yrs [View all] snagglepuss Feb 2012 OP

snip Iliyah Feb 2012 #1

Could our bodies cope with bacteria they've never encountered? snagglepuss Feb 2012 #4

It's unlikely anything adapted to those conditions would find the human body a friendly environment. tclambert Feb 2012 #22

Yes Shankapotomus Feb 2012 #23

Bacteria; greiner3 Feb 2012 #39

These are, however, not bacteria that live in warm-blooded animals muriel_volestrangler Feb 2012 #40

MRSA didn't evolve from a never-before-encountered bacterium. tclambert Feb 2012 #44

Anything evolved there would probably find the surface starkly hostile at best Posteritatis Feb 2012 #46

possibly.... unkachuck Feb 2012 #5

That goes without saying (nt) Shankapotomus Feb 2012 #24

I have a bad feeling about this.... WCGreen Feb 2012 #2

I know, right? Ratty Feb 2012 #3

Didn't they watch John Carpenter's THE THING? yurbud Feb 2012 #8

Hey, I remember "The Thing", circa 1951. ladjf Feb 2012 #16

that was the first of three yurbud Feb 2012 #19

First of two Scootaloo Feb 2012 #20

A third is in the works lunatica Feb 2012 #30

It's already been made and released. Scootaloo Feb 2012 #37

I just watched it last week. If it had come out BEFORE the 1982 one, it would have been OK yurbud Feb 2012 #48

God, that scene always freaked me out Scootaloo Feb 2012 #50

if I had seen that at 5, I'd be in a psych ward right now. yurbud Feb 2012 #51

Man, you were sheltered Scootaloo Feb 2012 #52

I'm probably a little older yurbud Feb 2012 #53

I have a VCR tape of The Thing. RebelOne Feb 2012 #42

VCR tape? What's that? You must be really old. tclambert Feb 2012 #45

The only question is.... Centrik Feb 2012 #6

cant,, now that theyve been assimilated by our new alien overlords which i for one leftyohiolib Feb 2012 #7

I wonder if those ice cores are older than the ones used to measure global warming... yurbud Feb 2012 #9

unlikely, the artic cores go back like 100 milllion years tech_smythe Feb 2012 #10

Er, try 740,000 years. DRoseDARs Feb 2012 #14

Very cool. Like a time machine. geckosfeet Feb 2012 #11

The Thing! Lint Head Feb 2012 #12

Now we have to worry about The Wizard Feb 2012 #13

ROFL.. snooper2 Feb 2012 #43

They left two guys there to winter over so they could keep an eye on the hole. eyewall Feb 2012 #15

Hey it was that or the salt mines. n/t cherokeeprogressive Feb 2012 #17

Yea, like people are just going to start Shankapotomus Feb 2012 #25

Btw, let's hope they don't Shankapotomus Feb 2012 #26

Wonder if they'll catch anything? progressoid Feb 2012 #32

LOL! eyewall Feb 2012 #34

I would throw this one back just for being so God awful ugly. Uncle Joe Feb 2012 #35

Not if they really really like each other. snagglepuss Feb 2012 #41

Brokeback... ice hole? boppers Feb 2012 #49

I would think that we would contaminate that lake a lot more than it would contaminate us. That jwirr Feb 2012 #18

I just had a sad thought. Denninmi Feb 2012 #21

I guess the Russians didn't want to wait onlyadream Feb 2012 #27

In other news: new coke cola processing plant to open in Antartica. nt Javaman Feb 2012 #28

And thus began the zombie apocalypse. The Doctor. Feb 2012 #29

Let us hope they haven't disturbed The Great Old One, Mnomquah, Lord of the Black Lake. baldguy Feb 2012 #31

from the "what could possibly go wrong?" department.... Evasporque Feb 2012 #33

Coming soon........Vostok bottled water thelordofhell Feb 2012 #36

Or infect and kill all of us. aquart Feb 2012 #38

My concern is not what it will do to us, but Old Troop Feb 2012 #47