Scientists to explore buried Antarctica lake
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Uploaded by AlJazeeraEnglish on Oct 13, 2011
British scientists are embarking on a groundbreaking mission to look for signs of life deep beneath the ice of Antarctica.
The British Antarctic Survey will use a hot-water drill to bore down to a lake buried beneath 3km of solid ice in West Antarctica.
What they find beneath the ice could give clues to the origins of life and how climate change may affect the planet.
Al Jazeera's Rory Challands met with the scientists in Cambridge before they set off.
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@restlesspride666 WOW, CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALIST MUST HAVE YOU ON A HIT LIST:(
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OIL
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It has not been covered for 10 million or even hundereds of thousands of years, the same Ice sheet that covered North America 5,000 years ago is still covering Atlantis...*cough cough* i mean Antartica.
What i do hope they find is species that have adapted to their new icy home, such as the deep dwelling creatures possibly around hydrothermal vents. Or better yet the remains of human habitation, boats,houses, heck even bodies.
This is Atlantis! under 4 miles of ice!
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Down into the Abyss.
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@millenium2003 H.A.A.R.P.
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Or maybe Hitlers UFO base?
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The fountain of youth?
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I just hope they don't find al kaida down there..
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@hehe45451 i'm sure that's their goal
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how did they know there is a lake?
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Still looking for that Stargate in Antarctica. lmao
admiralcrash1 4 months ago 10
If there is an Eco system with life at those depths and pressures, then I can see humans trying to probe Europa in the next 5o years.
neals1979 4 months ago 5