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Wed Feb 9, 2011 09:08 AM ET
The big mystery of Lake Vostok and whether it holds ancient microbial life will have to wait for another Antarctic winter to pass. A team of Russian researchers left their remote drilling site this week with less than 50 feet to go to break into the surface of a vast underground lake that has remain untouched for the past 15 million years.
In order to catch the last plane home, the Russians left behind a 12,300-foot borehole filled with kerosene to prevent it from freezing
Originally posted by defcon5
reply to post by Pauligirl
I’m not getting the mystery:
In order to catch the last plane home, the Russians left behind a 12,300-foot borehole filled with kerosene to prevent it from freezing
They do not operate aircraft during the winter season in Antarctica as the fuel can literally freeze in the running engines. Folks who go there normally work in shifts, a four month summer season and an eight month winter season. If you are there for the winter season, its so cold that you are pretty much trapped for the entire time. Extensive mental and medical exams have to be passed to prove your fitness to stay through the winter. Most of your outdoors experimentation (aka Drilling) happens in the summer season.
Originally posted by defcon5
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.
If you sent a chronometer back in time it might come back with a difference in time between it and a currant watch (ie. Missing time), however, its certainly not going to magically reset its time to the date at the other end of the portal. That is unless some compulsive person on the other side reset it to their local time.
BTW… anytime I see “Russian” anything in a news article I always assume the author is Sorcha Faal.
For those who don't know this, here is the local news paper:
antarcticsun.usap.gov...
Its business as usual down there, and any member who feels inclined to go there in search of this vortex can easily apply for a position through Raytheon Polar Services:
rpsc.raytheon.com...
Originally posted by DevilDog0311
I will say that "before its news" is not the best source... Isnt this the same website that claimed Mubarak was gunned down leaving a hotel? (Among other outrageous claims)
Your first experience with Before It's News was probably viewing a story someone had contributed, or you found our Front Page. We are a news utility -- an internet platform that enables the hosting and distribution of any kind of news, worldwide. With Before It's News, you don't need a web site, blog, or anything, just get a free account and post your story. It will get out through all the major search engines.
Originally posted by Pauligirl
Originally posted by defcon5
reply to post by Pauligirl
I’m not getting the mystery:
In order to catch the last plane home, the Russians left behind a 12,300-foot borehole filled with kerosene to prevent it from freezing
They do not operate aircraft during the winter season in Antarctica as the fuel can literally freeze in the running engines. Folks who go there normally work in shifts, a four month summer season and an eight month winter season. If you are there for the winter season, its so cold that you are pretty much trapped for the entire time. Extensive mental and medical exams have to be passed to prove your fitness to stay through the winter. Most of your outdoors experimentation (aka Drilling) happens in the summer season.
The mystery is whether Lake Vostok has ancient microbial life, so there is a project going on there, But all the Russian scientists packed up and left in February so it doesn't look like anybody was around for any of the op's mystery activity. Like most stuff that comes from Before It's News, I think it's horse pucky.
Originally posted by here4awhile
interesting report...but whatever it is...the military will probably kill to keep secret so I wouldn't expect much disclosure on it if it's so important...I'll keep hoping for disclosure tho
Originally posted by 8311-XHT
I was thinking that too.. but it depends how it calculates the time.. if it uses celestial data and trangulation etc..
Originally posted by defcon5
Originally posted by 8311-XHT
I was thinking that too.. but it depends how it calculates the time.. if it uses celestial data and trangulation etc..
How’s it going to get that info though?
There were not many satellites in orbit in 65, certainly no GPS/Cellphone, and I don’t know of anything portable that can read the sky (if it can even see the sky) and detect exactly what the time and date is.