just had an X-File Flashback
 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...7135MB20110204

admit it, many of you thought of "Ice" too

Cool, they've been planning this for a while, one of the big problems was to make sure they didn't introduce any 'modern' organisms or other contaminants.
Thanks for the update, mate! [thumbup]

There will be a great pyramid under the ice, and then we will have more questions than answers until whatever is down there is let loose... [xmasshocked][xmaslaugh]

Which do you expect - Aliens or Predators?

only the best!

err... Predalien? [help]

DAMNIT!
Seems the Russians care as much for the prestine Antartic and Lake Vostok environment as they do for their own environment!

http://www.popsci.com/science/articl...g-another-year

An update.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ION-years.html

I was rather bemused by this bit "Their radio silence has conjured chilling echoes of classic horror film The Thing, where scientists dig up a buried spacecraft in the Antarctic ice, only to unleash an extraterrestrial horror within." - I'd just put it down to weather/atmospheric conditions, but who knows [cue Twilight Zone music]