SilentFeathers
9th March 2013, 15:20
Look at this in the headlines today....more "speaking with a forked tongue" coming from the "officials".
http://www.clevelandleader.com/files/lakevostok.jpg
A preliminary examination of water samples taken from the ancient, subglacial Lake Vostok located near the South Pole in Antarctica reveals that its inhabitants aren't found anywhere else on Earth. According to Sergei Bulat, a researcher at the Laboratory of Eukaryote Genetics at the St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, the species of bacteria found in the probes of water from Lake Vostok do not belong to any of the 40+ known subkingdoms of bacteria.
Bulat said:
“After excluding all known contaminants…we discovered bacterial DNA that does not match any known species listed in global databanks. We call it unidentified and 'unclassified' life."
Bulat noted that seven samples of the same species of bacteria were found in water frozen on the head of the drill used last year to reach the lake, which is covered by a 3.5-kilometer thick ice sheet, bu the match between its DNA and any known organisms never exceeded 86 percent. A match under 90 percent is enough to indicate a new species.
Researchers' attempts to build a phylogenetic tree for the new microorganism showed that the Antarctic bacterium did not fit any of the main categories of microorganisms in its taxonomic domain. Tests are ongoing, but are not likely to disprove the results, said Bulat.
Bulat added that additional samples were needed for conclusive proof, and may be found in water from the lake that was obtained during a new drilling season earlier this year and is now on its way back to Russia via ship.
Ever since drilling began in 1989 to reach Lake Vostok, which may have been isolated from the outside world as early as 17 million years ago, there has been a lot of interest in possible life under Antarctic ice. Drilling through the ice without contaminating the lake took the Russian team at Station Vostok, 23 years to complete.
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/20455
This has been all over the internet being reported by MANY news outlets....now they are saying this????????????
Russian Scientists Admit No New Life Found In Antarctic Lake
Russian scientists have dismissed initial reports that they had found a new type of bacteria in a subglacial lake in Antarctica.
Sergei Bulat of the genetics laboratory of the St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics had said March 7 that samples obtained from the undreground Lake Vostok last year contained a bacteria bearing no resemblance to existing types.
http://www.rferl.org/content/life-antarctica/24924036.html
Talk about double talk, either it is a complete hoax or they found something and leaked it out and are backpeddling because they don't want us to know what they really found!
http://www.clevelandleader.com/files/lakevostok.jpg
A preliminary examination of water samples taken from the ancient, subglacial Lake Vostok located near the South Pole in Antarctica reveals that its inhabitants aren't found anywhere else on Earth. According to Sergei Bulat, a researcher at the Laboratory of Eukaryote Genetics at the St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, the species of bacteria found in the probes of water from Lake Vostok do not belong to any of the 40+ known subkingdoms of bacteria.
Bulat said:
“After excluding all known contaminants…we discovered bacterial DNA that does not match any known species listed in global databanks. We call it unidentified and 'unclassified' life."
Bulat noted that seven samples of the same species of bacteria were found in water frozen on the head of the drill used last year to reach the lake, which is covered by a 3.5-kilometer thick ice sheet, bu the match between its DNA and any known organisms never exceeded 86 percent. A match under 90 percent is enough to indicate a new species.
Researchers' attempts to build a phylogenetic tree for the new microorganism showed that the Antarctic bacterium did not fit any of the main categories of microorganisms in its taxonomic domain. Tests are ongoing, but are not likely to disprove the results, said Bulat.
Bulat added that additional samples were needed for conclusive proof, and may be found in water from the lake that was obtained during a new drilling season earlier this year and is now on its way back to Russia via ship.
Ever since drilling began in 1989 to reach Lake Vostok, which may have been isolated from the outside world as early as 17 million years ago, there has been a lot of interest in possible life under Antarctic ice. Drilling through the ice without contaminating the lake took the Russian team at Station Vostok, 23 years to complete.
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/20455
This has been all over the internet being reported by MANY news outlets....now they are saying this????????????
Russian Scientists Admit No New Life Found In Antarctic Lake
Russian scientists have dismissed initial reports that they had found a new type of bacteria in a subglacial lake in Antarctica.
Sergei Bulat of the genetics laboratory of the St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics had said March 7 that samples obtained from the undreground Lake Vostok last year contained a bacteria bearing no resemblance to existing types.
http://www.rferl.org/content/life-antarctica/24924036.html
Talk about double talk, either it is a complete hoax or they found something and leaked it out and are backpeddling because they don't want us to know what they really found!