Antarctic Lake May Contain Extreme Life Forms

[Skywizard]

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The Russian-operated research station sits above Lake Vostok in Antarctica.


Lake Vostok in Antarctica isn’t like most of the world’s other lakes. You can’t see it from surface level, because it’s been buried under two miles of ice for the past 15 million years. And unlike other bodies of water that recycle their contents fairly quickly, the water in Lake Vostok only recycles about once every 13,000 years from some unknown source. It’s under too much pressure from all the ice above it to freeze, but it can’t easily escape either, and it’s uncontaminated by human activity or chemicals.

That’s why scientists think it may be a treasure trove of extremophiles — that is, organisms which have evolved to live in the harshest, most inhospitable conditions.

Studies of ice from just above the liquid lake have revealed dozens of types of bacteria and fungi, and also genetic fragments that might suggest the presence of fish and crustaceans, according to a 2013 Nature news article. A Russian scientist also reported that the ice contained a previously unknown type of bacteria, whose DNA was different from other known species. But other scientists disputed those finds, saying that the samples had been tainted by anti-freezing chemicals used to keep the drill working.

In late January, researchers managed to drill down to the lake again, and this time, they say they’ve devised a method to obtain an uncontaminated 1-liter sample of the lake’s water, according to RT.com. That may help resolve the mystery of whether life exists in Lake Vostok.

Since the lake was discovered in 1996, scientists have used radar to explore it and the ice above it, which took thousands of years to accumulate.

There are about 200 other lakes under Antarctica, which actually contains about 70 percent of the world’s entire fresh water supply.



Source: http://news.discovery.com/earth/antarctic-lake-still-lies-two-miles-beneath-the-ice-and-may-contain-extreme-life-forms-150207.htm



peace...

[WhiteFeather]

Found this of interest and to add to this thread, if i may.

The Lake Vostok ‘Alien Craft’ Coverup

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APRIL, 2011: DISTURBING NEWS has been leaking out from the giant continent at the bottom of the world. Scientists manning lonely outposts under the drifting and shifting aurora are nearly paralyzed with fear. Their clipped reports are being reviewed by astonished superiors back in the home countries.
Russian researchers posted near the giant South Pole sub-glacial Lake Vostok have reported eerie anomalies and incidents over the past few years that sometimes seem to border on the frayed edge of creeping madness.
Artificial structure found under two miles of ice
During April 2001 one of the world’s great secrets was revealed: an ancient structure or apparatus that lay encased miles under the hard Antarctic ice was detected by a roving spy satellite. The US military immediately moved to quash the reports and the mainstream news media dutifully complied.
Despite the news blackout, reports still surfaced that a secretive excavation project had commenced on the heels of the discovery. Some European countries formally protested the excavation by the US military.



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“If it’s something the US military has constructed down there, then they’re violating the international Antarctic Treaty,” said an aide to Nicole Fontaine, at the time he was the European Parliament’s French president. “If not, then it’s something that’s at least 12,000 years old, which is how long ice has covered Antarctica. That would make it the oldest man-made structure on the planet. The Pentagon should heed the calls of Congress and release whatever it’s hiding.”
The federal government and the Pentagon ignored the calls.
High technology and strange events
Soon after, some military observers noted that robotic devices were being shipped to the South Pole and speculation erupted about the belief by some that the US Air Force had transported their mammoth nuclear-powered tunnel-boring machine, the Subterrene, on a C5-A to a secret Antarctic base.

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The Subterrene, a cylindrical vessel that is said manned with a crew of four to six, is capable of subterranean travel and has undergone tests in Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico. Designed to bore through hard rock strata, drilling into the ice would be like a laser cutting through a marshmallow.

Following the frenzied events, of early 2001, the news broke of a mysterious medical emergency that forced an evacuation of unnamed personnel during the depths of the Antarctic winter–the first event of its kind during the dangerous South Pole winter season.
Shortly after that the region was shaken by an unusual earthquake. Seismologists located the temblor at the epicenter of the buried structure in East Antarctica. Yet still the military resisted making any comment.
A magnetic anomaly formed, intensified, and spread to the vicinity of the Russian Vostok base. Russian researchers were shocked and puzzled.
Meanwhile, the American military airfield buzzed with activity as flights came and went at a dizzying pace. Heavy machinery–some pretty exotic–appeared on the bleak Antarctic ice sheet. Unverified reports claimed that the nuclear-powered earth borer Subterrene arrived.

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Subterrene sent to explore prehistoric machine?
Finally, the American and European media were pressing hard for some believable answers when 9-11 occurred and the US was suddenly under terrorist attack. Domestic and international focus immediately shifted from the Antarctic to New York City and Washington, D.C.
The mysterious events in Antarctica were forgotten.
2002: TV crew disappears
A California TV crew filming in the Antarctic went missing in November 2002.
Supposedly, a video discovered among the crews’ personal effects by a special U.S. Navy SEAL rescue team tasked to find the filmmakers confirmed earlier reports of a huge artifact buried under the ice–a prehistoric machine that may be of alien origin.
“The U.S. government said it will seek to block the airing of a video found by Navy rescuers in Antarctica that purportedly reveals that a massive archaeological dig is underway two miles beneath the ice,” stated a press release that appeared briefly on the studio production’s website.

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As one bizarre event followed another, a research team of US and UK scientists accidentally came across a mind-numbing discovery. While working on a joint weather research project, the team witnessed the creation of a spinning vortex of time.
US physicist Mariann McLein allegedly testified that she and her colleagues became aware of a “spinning gray fog” in the sky over their heads. They initially dismissed the phenomenon as merely part of a random polar storm.
The spiraling vortex, however, did not disperse. Stranger still, despite gusts of wind and briskly moving clouds overhead, the weird spinning gray fog remained stationary.
Deciding to explore the odd phenomenon, the group took one of its weather balloons and attached a meteorological instrument to it that calibrated temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, windspeed and a scientific chronometer to record the times of the readings.
After attaching a cable to the balloon, and securing the other end to a winch, they released it. The balloon and instrument package soared upwards and were immediately sucked into the gaping maw of the swirling vortex.
The balloon and instruments disappeared.
Tunnel to the past
After a several minutes, they decided to retrieve the balloon. Despite some difficulty with the winch they succeeded in bringing the balloon back to earth and checked the instruments. McLein stated that everyone was stunned by the readout on the chronometer. It displayed a date decades in the past: January 27, 1965.
McLein claimed the experiment was repeated several times with the same result.
Later, she said, the entire episode was reported to military intelligence and passed on to the White House. Presumably the strange vortex phenomenon—a highly magnetic tunnel to the past–was code named The Time Gate by military intelligence.
As the phenomenon was generated in the same general vicinity as the discovery of the giant apparatus deep under the ice, it’s thought the two may be related.
If indeed a magnetic time vortex is appearing and disappearing over Antarctica–and if the phenomena is not natural, but generated by some unknown technology deep under the icecap–it may reveal the physics of time and could potentially allow control of the past, and by implication the future.
If true, it’s no wonder the military is so intensely interested and so closed-mouthed about it…

Here: http://www.exohuman.com/wordpress/2011/05/lake-vostok-alien-craft-coverup/


Vostok by Steve Alten, Just came out recently in 2015. Looks like a good read.
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Steve Alten is a NY Times and international best-selling author of fictional thrillers. His novels are being optioned as major motion pictures and he and I are working on a new book and screenplay together. On Tuesday, February 17, Rebel Press will publish his new thriller, VOSTOK, a page-turner about a 1,600 square mile subglacial lake located beneath two miles of ice in East Antarctica that has remained untouched for 15 million years. Not only does prehistoric life exist in Vostok, but there's also a powerful electromagnetic presence that could be coming from an ET ship.

[Aspen]

Wow, this is very interesting! Thanks so much Whitefeather! Maybe it should also be posted on the thread about the opening yen miles from the geographic South Pole? In that thread they had also mentioned scientists being alarmed and silver flying discs. I guess Antarctic is a huge continent so its hard to say if they are related. I suspect that just like the Sahara Desert once had cities on it, that the Antarctic has a history of some type of civilization as well.

[MorningFox]

After a several minutes, they decided to retrieve the balloon. Despite some difficulty with the winch they succeeded in bringing the balloon back to earth and checked the instruments. McLein stated that everyone was stunned by the readout on the chronometer. It displayed a date decades in the past: January 27, 1965.
McLein claimed the experiment was repeated several times with the same result.[/B]

Interesting story but the above quote suggests, to me at least, that it's simply made up by someone who didn't really think it through properly. Why would a clock go backwards in time? That makes no sense. The time and date are programmed into a computer and it simply keeps time from that moment... So if the balloon did indeed go back in time, the time and date on the clock wouldn't register as going back in time, it would simply continue it's steady progress forward. Fun story, but fictional, I'm sure.

If they had said that the clock came back and was X amount of hours ahead, while having only spent minutes up there, then that would have been far more believable. The clock registering a date in the past, though, is simply illogical. I think they've been reading too many H G Wells novels.