Russian Scientists lost in Antarctica?

[LouCipherr]

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/...zen-land-lost/ If you ask me, I think The Thing got 'em. Some text from the article: A group of Russian scientists plumbing the frozen Antarctic in search of a lake buried in ice for tens of millions of years have failed to respond to increasingly anxious U.S. colleagues -- and as the days creep by, the fate of the team remains unknown. "No word from the ice for 5 days," Dr. John Priscu professor of ecology at Montana State University, told FoxNews.com via email. The team from Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) have been drilling for weeks in an effort to reach isolated Lake Vostok, a vast, dark body of water hidden 13,000 ft. below the ice sheet's surface. The lake hasn't been exposed to air in more than 20 million years. Priscu said there was no way to get in touch with the team -- and the already cold weather is set to plunge, as Antarctica's summer season ends and winter sets in. "Temps are dropping below -40 Celsius [-40 degrees Fahrenheit] and they have only a week or so left before they have to winterize the station," he said. "I can only imagine what things must be like at Vostok Station this week." The team's disappearance could not come at a worse time: They are about 40 feet from their goal of reaching the body of water, Priscu explained, a goal that the team was unable to meet as they raced the coming winter exactly one year ago. When the winter arrives in the next few weeks, the temperature can get twice as cold. Vostok Station boasts the lowest recorded temperature on Earth: -89.4 degrees Celsius (-129 degrees Fahrenheit).

[AcesandEights]

Possibly a horrible, horrible fate. That said, anyone else thinks it's cool that people can still be lost and all but swallowed up by the more remote portions of the Earth even in this day and age? Probably sounds morbid, but something reassuring about it to me that we haven't crowded out at least every frikkin' corner of the planet.

[LouCipherr]

Possibly a horrible, horrible fate. Yeah, I think I might have to agree. Doesn't sound good, that's for sure. That said, anyone else thinks it's cool that people can still be lost and all but swallowed up by the more remote portions of the Earth even in this day and age? Not to sound like a sick bastard or anything, but yes, I find this to be kind of a relief. At least, like you said, it shows we haven't raped every single inch of mother earth.......yet.

[Sammich]

Sounds like something from At the Mountains of Madness.

[Publius]

Darn, too late for a Thing/Who Goes There reference OR a Mountains of Madness reference. :P

[Sammich]

Darn, too late for a Thing/Who Goes There reference OR a Mountains of Madness reference. :P That horrible "global warming" movie called The Thaw starring Val Kilmer is still available!

[Publius]

That horrible "global warming" movie called The Thaw starring Val Kilmer is still available! No, no, I can do better. Let's see... I bet we will only find out what happened to them from a strange manuscript found in a copper cylinder.

[Christopher Jon]

That horrible "global warming" movie called The Thaw starring Val Kilmer is still available! God. That was an awful movie. It wan't The Thing, it was those damn Yeti.