Lake Vostok, Antarctica Mysteries: Over 3,500 Life Forms Discovered Isolated For Over 15 Million Yea
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[QUOTE]Scientists have discovered more than 3,500 unique gene sequences in Lake Vostok – the underground Antarctic water reservoir isolated from the outside world for 15 million years – revealing a complex ecosystem far beyond anything they could have expected.
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"The bounds on what is habitable and what is not are changing,"[/I] said Scott Rogers, Bowling Green State University professor of biological sciences, who led a genetic study of the contents of half a liter of water brought back from the lake after it was drilled by Russian scientists last year.
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"We found much more complexity than anyone thought,"[/I] Rogers said. [I]"It really shows the tenacity of life, and how organisms can survive in places where a couple dozen years ago we thought nothing could survive."[/I]
There are few places on Earth more hostile to life forms than [URL="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0067221"]Lake Vostok[/URL], the largest subglacial lake in the Antarctic, and initially Rogers believed that the water from it may have been completely sterile.
Water is located 4,000 meters below the ice, which completely blocks sunlight, and creates huge pressure on the liquid. It is also literally located in the coldest place on Earth: the world’s lowest temperature of -89.2C was recorded at Vostok Station above the reservoir[/QUOTE]
[URL]http://rt.com/news/lake-vostok-bacteria-dna-745/[/URL]
An ancient evil awakens....
Bring on the shoggoths.
[IMG]http://dwarffortresswiki.org/images/0/0b/Eerie_cavern.png[/IMG]
Oh Oh, we better run before the demons spawn.
I think I'd love to see this place. Just once, at least.
Antarctica is honestly one of the most serene, and beautifully unspoilt places on Earth, and the fact that life can exist, and be found down there is simply amazing.
Enceladus Simulator 2013
[QUOTE=TorashVD;41345272][IMG]http://dwarffortresswiki.org/images/0/0b/Eerie_cavern.png[/IMG]
Oh Oh, we better run before the demons spawn.[/QUOTE]
Don't you mean clowns?
Atleast we'll get candy.
"Lifeforms" what they didn't tell you was one of them was mermaids and they found atlantis
[QUOTE=Whiterfire;41346545]"Lifeforms" what they didn't tell you was one of them was mermaids and they found atlantis[/QUOTE]
You fool we all know the Ancients left earth for the pegasus galaxy.
And from which The Thing emerges.
[QUOTE=bunnyspy1;41345631]Don't you mean clowns?[/QUOTE]
The circus is coming to town!
[QUOTE=Whiterfire;41346545]"Lifeforms" what they didn't tell you was one of them was mermaids and they found atlantis[/QUOTE]
na they just found the second earth stargate
Does this mean that there might yet be hope for life being underneath Europa's surface? 15 millions years is a long time
i wonder how well these organisms would fair if they planted them on Europa!
granted there's no pre-excisting life forms already there!
imagine how we humans just barge in there yelling "hi aliens!" and fucking sneeze them in the face, wiping out our only living neighbour in the universe.
[QUOTE=Dysgalt;41347821]You fool we all know the Ancients left earth for the pegasus galaxy.[/QUOTE]
It was the other way around.
[QUOTE=Killer900;41349080]Does this mean that there might yet be hope for life being underneath Europa's surface? 15 millions years is a long time[/QUOTE]
It's not the same, since Antarctica wasn't always the frozen land it is today.
But I like to believe there is hope.
Man, it's nice how these things are alive and all, but I'd really like to see a new living thing. I'd really like for something actually interesting to happen, like the discovery of some ice-worm or something.
Everything today is just dick snakes and people killing eachother. The things down there are just probably teeny weeny bacteria.
[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;41348108]And from which The Thing emerges.[/QUOTE]
they found a lake, not a frozen spaceship
Hopefully they won't disturb too much of it.
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