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Editorial – Sigh. While Sci-fi fans are dreaming of The Thing and X-Files and the world waits for word from the Russian team drilling into Lake Vostok. “They are missing” we hear. “No they are not” says the Daily Mail. But reading closer we learn that an Arctic expert “believes” all is well and they are just too busy to send emails.
Um, is there any purpose to drilling into the lake when you know you have to leave within hours of doing that? Is is reasonable to start an unrepeatable experiment then leave before you have results? The only result would be possible pointless pollution of the most remote body of water on earth.
The Daily Mail coverage –
We know where they are! Antarctic explorer says Russian scientists drilling at ‘alien’ underground lake are safe but still ‘working round the clock’ as polar winter looms
By ROB COOPER and THOMAS DURANTE
Last updated at 3:10 AM on 6th February 2012
An American professor and expert of the Antarctic said he believes contact with a team of Russian scientists that has not made contact with colleagues in the U.S for seven days has merely been busy as they drill into a lake buried beneath the Antarctic ice for 20 million years.
Professor John Priscu told usnews.com in an email that the crews have been working ‘round the clock’ to beat the end of Antarctic summer, which ends Tuesday. Afterwards, temperatures will fall to deadly levels.
He said: ‘I can assure you that they are not lost or out of contact. I never said the Russians were lost.’
The scientists are currently battling conditions of up to minus 66C at Lake Vostok as they raced to drill into a lake buried two miles beneath the ice before the weather closed in.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095193/Lake-Vostok-Russian-scientists-drilling-alien-Antarctic-lake-buried-20m-years.html#ixzz1lZNhcztw
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