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46. Anything evolved there would probably find the surface starkly hostile at best

Thu Feb 9, 2012, 06:00 PM

Feb 2012

To something that evolved in that lake, my backyard during the day would be a searing, radioactive, corrosive hellscape.

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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