Re:Lake Vostok Reached
by sp332 on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @01:17PM
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It think it's funny that the liquid water at the bottom is treated as precious, but no one cares about the huge amount solid "water" above it.
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liquid water could harbour life. the icepack probably doesn't have too much living in it.
We've found microbes almost everywhere, and they make up the vast, vast majority of life on this planet.
In Lake Vostok's case, the first reports were in 1999,[1] and yeast and fungi have been isolatef from ice cores collected at depths more than 3500 m below the surface.[2] Exciting stuff, no?
*: Posting from school, so sorry if these aren't free.
[1]: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/286/5447/2144.short
[2]: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/279/1728/474....