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What about the secret Nazi bases!!! Aren't we forgetting them!!!???
On Tue, 26 June 2001, "c." wrote:
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> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="http://www.nationalpost.com/";><FONT
> face="Times New Roman" size=3>http://www.nationalpost.com/</FONT></A><BR><FONT
> face="Times New Roman" size=3>National Post, p. A1<BR>June 26, 2001<BR><BR>The
> rumour mill at the bottom of the world<BR>Hidden truths of Lake Vostok excite
> scientists and ranters<BR><BR>Bryon Okada<BR>Fort Worth Star-Telegram<BR><BR>A
> subglacial lake discovered four kilometres below the South Pole<BR>has captured
> the imaginations not only of scientists but also of<BR>conspiracy theorists and
> alien-encounter types.<BR><BR>NASA wants to use Lake Vostok to test equipment
> for a mission to<BR>Jupiter. Microbiologists want to study life in extreme
> climates.<BR><BR>Environmentalists halted exploration to keep the lake, believed
> to<BR>have the purest freshwater on Earth, free of contaminants. But<BR>when the
> drilling stopped the speculation intensified, particularly<BR>via the Internet,
> that scientists were about to expose the world to<BR>a deadly virus for which
> humans have no antibodies.<BR><BR>And when several researchers became sick this
> year, requiring<BR>airlifts out of Antarctica, the cries of a government
> coverup<BR>reached a fever pitch.<BR><BR>Now some, inspired by the release of
> the movie Atlantis: The Lost<BR>Empire, believe Lake Vostok provides evidence
> that the lost city<BR>lies under the South Pole, a victim of polar shifting
> and/or plate<BR>tectonics.<BR><BR>Here is an excerpt of a popular posting in
> several Internet chat<BR>rooms:<BR><BR>"If the Great Flood was caused by the
> Earth shifting its axis, as<BR>appears to be what actually happened, where what
> used to be<BR>the North Pole ended up near the equator, then Atlantis
> didn't<BR>sink. It simply relocated to the South Pole."<BR><BR>To put it simply,
> Lake Vostok is cool.<BR><BR>For those unfamiliar with the story, a lot of hard
> science has gone<BR>into the exploration of Lake Vostok.<BR><BR>The Russians
> have had a base at the site since the 1950s, but it<BR>was not until two decades
> later that scientists suspected there<BR>was something beneath it. Since 1989,
> scientists and engineers<BR>have been drilling the ice sheet above Lake Vostok
> to study the<BR>Earth's past climates. Drilling was abruptly halted
> when<BR>researchers hit a layer of refrozen ice 120 metres thick.<BR><BR>That
> led to speculation, later confirmed, that more than 3,600<BR>metres below the
> base, there is a 23,000 square kilometre<BR>subglacial lake, roughly the size of
> Lake Ontario. The water is<BR>unusually warm, probably a little below 0C,
> compared with -55C at<BR>the surface.<BR><BR>U.S. scientists studied the
> refrozen samples and found bacteria,<BR>which could suggest that a whole
> ecosystem different from ours --<BR>an alternate ecology -- may have existed for
> thousands, maybe<BR>millions, of years.<BR><BR>"That's what we know and it's not
> much," said John Priscu, a<BR>Montana State University microbial ecology
> professor who<BR>conducted the study.<BR><BR>"We know there's life down there,
> and it's a bizarre environment<BR>under three miles of ice, and it's been there
> a long time. That's<BR>pretty wild."<BR><BR>Mr. Priscu is leading another study
> this summer, so the picture<BR>should become clearer in the next year or
> so.<BR><BR>The unanswered questions, along with the remoteness of<BR>Antarctica
> and the hazy politics of that faraway continent, have<BR>increased the already
> intense speculation.<BR><BR>The Atlantis Blueprint, by Colin Wilson and Rand
> Flem-Ath,<BR>proposes that the people of Atlantis had created a
> thriving<BR>maritime society that is the proto-culture of societies
> today.<BR><BR>The basis of Mr. Flem-Ath's research is an ancient map
> depicting<BR>Atlantis that he found in a book while doing research for
> a<BR>screenplay about hibernating aliens.<BR><BR>"The map is a map of Atlantis,
> but if you take off all the labels, and<BR>you compare it to the Earth's
> surface, it's very similar to<BR>Antarctica," he said. "That was the first thing
> that got me on to it."<BR><BR>His work has often been used to promote Lake
> Vostok theories,<BR>but his research locates the main city of Atlantis
> elsewhere.<BR><BR>The speculation about the lake does not surprise Ray
> Browne,<BR>founder of the Popular Culture Association and professor
> emeritus<BR>at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, the United States's
> only<BR>department devoted to studying the reality-in-flux of
> coolness.<BR><BR>"When there's an interest, you've got to feed that," Mr.
> Browne<BR>said.<BR><BR>"Someone has rediscovered Atlantis outside the Pillars
> of<BR>Hercules, inside the Mediterranean, in the Caribbean, under the<BR>South
> Pole and everywhere else ...<BR><BR>"They want to find it, we want to find it,
> and if we never do, it's<BR>still tremendously interesting, because we all have
> a little<BR>archaeologist in us, and we're yearning for the Garden of
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