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Lake Vostok is (Almost) Breached After 20 Million Years
07 Feb 2012 07:46 #1
by ScienceChic
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
This is totally sweet, and sad at the same time. This water hasn't been exposed to our environment in millions of years and we will be opening it up to that.
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Lake Vostok is (Almost) Breached After 20 Million Years
By Caleb A. Scharf | February 6, 2012
From 2001 M. Studinger and R. E. Bell Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
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Lake Vostok is (Almost) Breached After 20 Million Years
By Caleb A. Scharf | February 6, 2012
From 2001 M. Studinger and R. E. Bell Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Two and a half miles beneath the surface of Antarctica’s central Eastern ice sheet is a body of water 160 miles by 30 miles across known as Lake Vostok, after the Vostok research station above it, built by the former Soviet Union in 1957 and now operated by Russia.
For the past 14 years a hole has been gradually drilled down from this location into the ancient layers of ice.
It’s tremendously exciting just as it’s also tremendously worrying that we will have messed up yet another irreplaceable ecosystem.
It’s possible that what’s happening at Vostok Station today is the beginning of our next chapter in the search for life in the universe.
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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