Lost on Lake Vostok

[Ben]

I could swear I read a zombie story involving something like this, where they penetrated into the buried for millions of years lake and loosed upon the world the Zombie Apocalypse virus. That or maybe they uncovered the Antarctic Stargate.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/02/russian-scientists-lost-in-frozen-land-lost/?intcmp=features

[wmenorr67]

Didn't the last version of Phirania have an element like this in it?

[Perd Hapley]

 When the winter arrives in the next few weeks, the temperature can get twice as freezing. 

Twice as freezing?

[Harold Tuttle]

Twice as zero is moar than 9000 less than divide by zero double plus one.

[Jamisjockey]

Nnooooo! Do not divide by Zero! You will d00m us all!

[charby]

[charby]

I like how they describe kerosene in the article, like folks don't have a clue about kerosene.

I wonder if a comrade lit up a cigarette and burned everyone up with 65 tons of Kerosene.

Or did a John Carpenter movie become a true story?

[Brad Johnson]

I'd think 65 tons of kerosene burning on an ice shelf would create on helluva thermal bloom, big enough for satellites to easily detect.

Brad

[BlueStarLizzard]

That writer is in serious need of a vocabulary.

"lost in the land of the lost" 

Why not "missing in the land of the lost" or "disappeared in the land of the lost" ?

You guys can bitch and moan all you want about grammer. I'll take on the diction fails.

[gunsmith]

. "Computer, compute to the last digit the value of pi" -- Spock

Nnooooo! Do not divide by Zero! You will d00m us all!

[Ben]

I like how they describe kerosene in the article, like folks don't have a clue about kerosene.

I thought that was funny too.

[charby]

I'd think 65 tons of kerosene burning on an ice shelf would create on helluva thermal bloom, big enough for satellites to easily detect.

Brad

Its only 18,500ish gallons of fuel oil, that is about a 1/3 of a oil refinery tank. I'm not sure if something like that on fire under ice would show up on a satellite, maybe if it happened at night.

[BlueStarLizzard]

why are we blowing up kerosene?

Technically, these dude's are not lost. They know approxamatly where the scientist are. The officials just don't know what has happened to them.

[charby]

why are we blowing up kerosene?

I think they burned themselves up.

They are using kerosene as an antifreeze to keep the drill hole from closing.

[BlueStarLizzard]

I think they burned themselves up.

They are using kerosene as an antifreeze to keep the drill hole from closing.

Well, that would be kind of stupid of them. It's not like water, but kerosene isn't the most volitile of fuel types.

[lee n. field]

I could swear I read a zombie story involving something like this, where they penetrated into the buried for millions of years lake and loosed upon the world the Zombie Apocalypse virus. That or maybe they uncovered the Antarctic Stargate.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/02/russian-scientists-lost-in-frozen-land-lost/?intcmp=features

John W. Campbell's classic "Who Goes There?"  (the source of the Carpenter movie).

A group of scientific researchers, isolated in Antarctica by the nearly-ended winter, discover an alien spaceship buried in the ice, where it crashed twenty million years before....

[TommyGunn]

John W. Campbell's classic "Who Goes There?"  (the source of the Carpenter movie).

"The Thing,"  made in the '50s with James Arness as carrot man from space and again in the 80s by Carpenter.

[RocketMan]

They stumbled on the Aliens and the Predators duking it out in their Antarctic base.

[charby]

Well, that would be kind of stupid of them. It's not like water, but kerosene isn't the most volitile of fuel types.

I'm trying to think how to respond to this... Lets see harsh cold environment, kerosene doesn't freeze, high flash point, floats on water.. hmmmm

[KD5NRH]

Twice as freezing?

64F, but somehow, still 0C.

[KD5NRH]

I'm trying to think how to respond to this... Lets see harsh cold environment, kerosene doesn't freeze, high flash point, floats on water.. hmmmm

Doesn't it gel somewhere around -40?

[Hawkmoon]

Its only 18,500ish gallons of fuel oil, that is about a 1/3 of a oil refinery tank. I'm not sure if something like that on fire under ice would show up on a satellite, maybe if it happened at night.

Mate, they've had satellites that could read your license plate from orbit for thirty or forty years. The stuff up there today can probably pick up a cigarette, never mind a refinery burning up. Against a thermal backdrop of "very cold."

[CNYCacher]

Mate, they've had satellites that could read your license plate from orbit for thirty or forty years. The stuff up there today can probably pick up a cigarette, never mind a refinery burning up. Against a thermal backdrop of "very cold."

Can't tell if serious. . .

[AJ Dual]

Problem is that not many, if any are in that severe a polar orbit to image the Lake Vostok area.

They probably have an orbital inclination of more like 30-45 degrees to cover the more inhabited continents that contain nations, people, militaries, and weapons of interest.

[RoadKingLarry]

They found something and have snuck back to Moscow to keep the secret from getting out.