Arctic and Antarctic Mysteries

[Gary Oak]

http://scienceray.com/biology/man-made- ... ntarctica/

Now isn't this interesting. Pyramids on Antarctica. Even the pyramids in the Canary Islands are not very well knows. There is the Peries Ries map from aound 600 years ago that showed Antarctica as it would have looked like without ice. Graham Hancock speculates that Atlantis may actually have been Antarctica and backs his claims with alot of evidence.

[Blue Frost]

I read , and have seen shows on the Arctic, and Antarctic where they talk about a shift in the mantel on a planetary scale thrust the regions into the poles where they are today.
Speculation is that they was in much warmer regions before that.

[Gary Oak]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/2 ... 00712.html

A lake full of prehistoric bacteria has finally been visited by probes. I wonder if anything larger might be found.

[Blue Frost]

I think Volstock is the oldest lake covered, in Russia.

[Gary Oak]

Lake Vida is a large Antarctic lake that has been buried under many tons of ice for thousands of years

[Blue Frost]

It's good to know whats down there as well, but Vostock is 420,000 years

[Gary Oak]

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This documentary explains what is so interesting about Lake Vostok

[Blue Frost]

Last I saw they was almost through Maybe it has a Kingdom of sea monkeys in it
I watched that before, I hope they find out soon whats down there.
My guess not much unless there is bacterias.

[Blue Frost]

November 27, 2012 12:22 pm
Bacterial Life Abounds in Antarctic Lake, Cut Off From the World for 2,800 Years
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartne ... 800-years/
Bacteria reside amongst the icy brine from Lake Vida. Photo: Christian H. Fritsen, Desert Research Institute

Just over a month ago, word came back from a Russian research team that they had failed so far to find life living within the cold Antarctic Lake Vostok, a massive body of water that had been buried beneath glacier ice, effectively cut off from the rest of the world, for the past 15 million years. The lack of life was a blow to those hoping to find that the hardiness of life extended to even the most extreme environments. But now, says Nature, reporting on a new study led by Alison Murray, scientists have found an abundance of life in the frigid Antarctic Lake Vida, a mostly-frozen salt water lake. Unlike Lake Vostok, which is buried beneath thousands of meters of thick glacier ice, Lake Vida is more like a regular lake, just permanently frozen. From drilling missions conducted in 2005 and 2010, the scientists pulled water samples teeming with bacterial life.

Water samples from both trips yielded around one-tenth of the abundance of cells usually found in freshwater lakes in moderate climate zones. Some of the cells measured up to 1 micrometre in diameter

[Gary Oak]

I am a little bit disappointed. I was hoping to find strange dinosaur era critters. Not even a microbe in Lake Vostok

[Blue Frost]

Yeah disappointing, but maybe in the bud they will find something.

[Gary Oak]

These ice free areas are something I wouldn't expect to see in Antarctica however I don't see any plant or insect life there at all. The ice free lakes are unusual too. Is there really zero life in these lakes ? There must be something. The preserved seals and penguins from thousands of years ago are a real curiosity. I wonder if they foudn any preserved creatures that have never been seen before ?

[Blue Frost]

It's so dry that anything can be preserved, and I would think something is in the soil, or water if any especially with the dead bodies.

[Gary Oak]

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/blood-falls

Another Antarctic mystery has been solved but still these photos still look outlandish. I don't think that I would want to spend a vacation going there to see these falls

[Blue Frost]

Looks a lot like blood, or rust don't it I see that on a show a few years ago, and them mentioning it to be algae, but I guess microbes is what it really it.

[Gary Oak]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/life-found-mud ... 31285.html

Well it's only microbes but these ones have been isolated from the rest of the world for eons.

[Gary Oak]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/geekquin ... 23216.html

I wonder what else will be discovered where and when the ice melts.

[Blue Frost]

The discoveries they can find now
Just think they can update more fossil records, and maybe even discover more man made things.

[Gary Oak]

http://2012thebigpicture.wordpress.com/ ... ica-video/

These buildings at around 19 minutes in do not look natural.

[Gary Oak]

..Greenland's Snow Hides 100 Billion Tons of Water
By By Becky Oskin, Staff Writer | LiveScience.com