Re: [FWD: A Sea of Mystery, Frozen in Time [LONG]]

From: Joseph S Barrera III (joe@barrera.org)
Date: Thu Apr 19 2001 - 11:09:31 PDT


So this is how Second Impact was triggered.

Also sprach Rodent of Unusual Size:
> A Sea of Mystery, Frozen in Time
>
> Miles below the antarctic ice, a freshwater lake may harbor ancient
> life. The dilemma: how to study it without destroying it.
>
> By: ROBERT LEE HOTZ
> TIMES SCIENCE WRITER, LA TIMES
>
> VOSTOK, ANTARCTICA -- At the coldest spot on Earth, Michael Studinger
> is mapping a world he cannot see.
>
> Around him stretches a snow-scape as smooth as a starched shirt, so
> empty of landmarks that any sense of scale or distance is lost in the
> white. But hidden miles beneath the icecap on which he stands is a
> freshwater lake as long as Lake Ontario and as deep as Lake Tahoe--its
> untouched waters a time capsule from more than a million years ago.

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Joseph S. Barrera III
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