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Antarctic Expedition Disappears
Shoggoths Suspected yet The Thing told not to leave without calling first...
Fears held for Russian scientists exploring "alien" Antarctic lake, Vostok
Russian scientists preparing to explore the "most alien lake on Earth," Lake Vostok, have reportedly not been in touch with American colleagues in over five days.
News DeskFebruary 3, 2012 06:57
Russian scientists preparing to explore the "most alien lake on Earth," Lake Vostok, have reportedly not been in touch with American colleagues in over five days.
Vostok, buried over two miles — or 13,000 feet — beneath the great Antarctic ice sheet, is one of the world's largest lakes. However, it hasn't been exposed to air in more than 20 million years, Fox News reported.
The team from Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) have been drilling for weeks to reach the isolated, subglacial water, part of a network of more than 200 subglacial lakes in Antarctica, according to the Washington Post.
Some of the lakes existed in warmer times, when the continent was connected to Australia.
Vostok is thought to harbor conditions similar to those of Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, and the discovery of life in the lake's inky depths would significantly strengthen the prospect of discovering life on either of these icy bodies.
However, the lake is "characterized by extremes, as geothermal heat from the Earth's interior warms the lake's bottom keeping it in a liquid state.
Thousands of yards of crushing ice also insulate Vostok from the coldest surface temperatures on Earth, "while infusing it with oxygen at concentrations fifty times higher than is typical of freshwater lakes on the planet's surface," the website said.
However, because there is no light, any nutrients can only exist in small quantities.
Still, the scientists were "enormously excited about what life-forms might be found there," the Washington Post reported.
Their main concern was contaminating the lake with drilling fluids and bacteria, "and the potentially explosive 'de-gassing' of a body of water that has especially high concentrations of oxygen and nitrogen."
Meanwhile, Dr. John Priscu, professor of Ecology at Montana State University, told FoxNews.com via email that he had no way to contact the team and the already cold weather was set to plunge, as Antarctica's summer season was ending.
"Temps are dropping below [minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit] and they have only a week or so left before they have to winterize the station," he told Fox. "I can only imagine what things must be like at Vostok Station this week."
The Thing 2011 script
Thing, The (2011)
Undated, unspecified draft by Eric Heisserer. Based on the short story “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell. Synopsis: At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between a graduate student and scientist. Notes: Missing title page. Source: Scanned – Pages: 110 – Size: 2.6 MB
The Thing (1951) Movie Script
Screenplay by Charles Lederer Based on a Story by John W. Campbell Jr.
At a distant Arctic research station, a UFO has crashed. The investigating scientists discover that the circular craft has melted its way into the ice, which has frozen up again. While attempting to recover the ship, Captain Patrick Hendry accidentally explodes the vessel, but the pilot -- at least, what seems to be the pilot -- remains frozen in a block of ice. When the ice thaws, it unleashes a powerful, destructive creature that's hell-bent on annihilating everything in its path.
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The Thing (1982) Movie Script
Screenplay by Bill Lancaster Based on a Story by John W. Campbell Jr.
An American scientific expedition to the frozen wastes of the Antarctic is interrupted by a group of seemingly mad Norwegians pursuing and shooting a dog. The helicopter pursuing the dog crashes leaving no explanation for the chase. During the night, the dog mutates and attacks other dogs in the cage and members of the team that investigate. The team soon realises that an alien life-form with the ability to take over other bodies is on the loose and they don't know who may already have been taken over.
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The Thing (2011) - Movie Script
Screenplay by Ronald D. Moore Based on a Story by John W. Campbell Jr.
Paleontologist Kate Lloyd joins a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across a crashed extraterrestrial spaceship buried in the ice of Antarctica. They discover a creature that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. When an experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate join the crew's pilot, Carter, to keep it from killing and imitating them one at a time, using its uncanny ability to mimic any life form it absorbs through digestion, and potentially reaching civilization.
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