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Post by swamprat on Feb 6, 2012 19:22:12 GMT -6
The Russians have resurfaced in Antarctica with news of success.Russian scientists reach buried Antarctic Lake VostokPublished February 06, 2012 A group of Russian scientists in Antarctica has succeeded in drilling to a lake buried two miles beneath the icy landmass, the state-run Russian news service Ria Novosti reported -- following a week of radio silence from the team that had some scratching their heads. “Yesterday, our scientists stopped drilling at the depth of 3,768 meters and reached the surface of the sub-glacial lake,” the source reportedly said in a story posted Monday, Feb. 6. John Priscu, a microbiologist with Montana State University who has worked on a similar Antarctic exploration program, hopes Vostok and other subglacial lakes buried beneath the continent may offer a glimpse of extreme new forms of life. "If they were successful, their efforts will transform the way we do science in Antarctica and provide us with an entirely new view of what exists under the vast Antarctic ice sheet," he told FoxNews.com. The team from Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) had 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. Beyond the fantastic science, Ria Novosti noted a number of rumors about the lake, including one that talks of a secret Nazi sub base, and the bodies of Hitler and his mistress being delivered there for cloning -- fantastic stories that again are surfacing in the Russian press. A brief break in communication with colleagues in the unfrozen world had some asking questions about the scientists, as Antarctica’s killing winter draws near. But despite the lack of info and onset of winter, which brings temperatures as low as -80 F or colder, the team was never in danger, Priscu said. The buried lake may be similar to the conditions on Mars and Jupiter’s moon Europa, Ria Novosti said. The Lake Vostok project has been years in the making, with initial drilling at the massive lake -- 6,060 square miles (15,690 square kilometers) -- starting in 1998. The scientists were quickly able to reach 11,800 feet (3,600 meters), but had to stop due to concerns of possible contamination of the never-before-touched lake water. The scientists came up with a clever way to make sure the water would not be contaminated: They agreed to drill until a sensor warned them of free water. At that point they took out the kerosene and adjusted the pressure so that none of the liquids would fall into the lake, but rather lake water would rise through the hole due to pressure from below. Read more: www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/06/russian-scientists-reach-buried-antarctic-lake-vostok/?intcmp=features#ixzz1leSR0Xdh
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2012 18:30:59 GMT -6
I'm fascinated by this..who knows what could still be living there
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Post by paulette on Feb 8, 2012 12:21:38 GMT -6
I think I already saw this movie. The researcher drilled and brought up ice cores that were home to some very hungry lifeforms that promptly ate their brains. One by one they went nuts and attacked each other. Art imitating life??
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Post by skywalker on Feb 8, 2012 18:39:10 GMT -6
I think that was an episode of the X-files. It would be interesting to see what is down there but in order to do so they will have to destroy the thing that makes it unique...its isolation. It will never be the same again. It's still interesting though. I seem to remember somebody recently found some cave that had life forms that were totally different from anything that anybody had ever seen before. There is no telling what might be in that lake...a frozen Loch Vostok monster maybe?
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Post by auntym on Mar 28, 2012 14:41:27 GMT -6
www.ufodigest.com/article/close-encounters-antarcticaClose Encounters in AntarcticaSubmitted by Scott Corrales Wed, 03/28/2012 By Scott Corrales Inexplicata-The Journal of Hispanic UFOlogy UFO Digest Latin America Correspondent Source: Planeta UFO and El Dragón Invisible Date: 3.25.12 Close Encounters in AntarcticaBy Carlos Alberto Iurchuk Note: This is the original text submitted to Brazil’s UFO magazine, edited by A.J. Gevaerd. The article appeared in Issue 177, May 2011. The man with the thick beard drank his coffee slowly. Later he turned to look at me, saying deliberately: “Around April or May, the cook remarked casually that around 17:00 hours he saw a plane flying in absolute silence – at least he didn’t hear any sound whatsoever, being in the kitchen and all – approached the center of the bay, made an abrupt turn, and pulled away.” It was on a cold afternoon, seated in a bar in the city of Buenos Aires, that I heard this story from the lips of Jose Raul Bortolamedi, who had been stationed at the Almirante Brown Argentinean Base in the Antarctic in 1981. Raul continued his story in an almost solemn tone of voice, ignoring the hubbub surrounding us: “Its altitude was estimated as being relatively low, between 100 and 300 meters, and it turned approximately 45 degrees. The cook was startled by the silence and abruptness with which the maneuver was executed. There was no news about any expected flights, since arrivals of commercial or scientific flights, or those of any other nature, were generally announced.” But that wasn’t the only unknown presence during his stay at the base. After drinking his coffee, he continued: “In the summer, while the necessary arrangements were being made for the departure of chemists and biologists at the base’s dock, the presence of an object similar to a bean, executing a falling leaf maneuver, was noticed directly over the base. The time it remained visible is hard to estimate, but it was between 2 to 5 minutes.” A Pulsating ContinentAntarctica is a nearly circular continent, some 4500 kilometers in diameter, surrounding the South Pole. It has a surface area of 14 million square kilometers, but when the encircling seas freeze, its surface area extends to 30 million square kilometers. It is also for this reason that Antarctica is known as “the pulsating continent.” It is also the last continent on our planet to be explored and populated by humans. It is hard to determine who was its official discoverer. Some say it was Spanish explorer Gabriel de Castilla, who reached 64 degrees South and saw land in those latitudes (which could have been any of the South Shetland Islands) according to the testimony of a Dutch mariner who sailed with him. Other historians give the nod to Dirk Gerritz, also Dutch, as possibly the first one to see the surface of the Antarctic as he sailed south to the Mar de Hoces (or the Drake Passage) in the vicinity of the South Shetland Islands in 1599. Apparently, it is easier to establish who was the first to reach the South Pole. Two expeditions set out toward that goal in 1911: one of them was the Norwegian expedition under the command of Roald Amundsen; the other was Britsh, and led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Amundsen employed Greenlandic sled dogs as his motor power. Scott, on the other hand, employed ponies during the first stage and then human power during the second. Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole on 14 December 1911; Scott arrived between 17-18 January 1913. While the Norwegian crew faced no further complications, poor planning and misfortune caused the five British explorers to perish during the return trip. Currently, most of the signatories to the Antarctic Treaty maintain scientific research stations on Antarctica. Some of them operate year-round, while others are of a seasonal nature and only operate during the summer. The Orkney Base, or Destacamento Naval Orcadas, located on Laurie Island in the South Orkneys, is the oldest Antarctic base in service and belongs to the Argentinean Republic, which operates it year-round through the Argentinean Navy. The weather station was originally set up by William Speirs Bruce, a Scotsman, in 1903, who later sold the facilities, instrument warehouse and measuring devices to the Argentinean government. President Julio Argentino Roca, through Decree No. 3073 of 2 January 1904, accepted the offer, authorizing the Oficina Meteorlógica Argentina to maintain the station. A Continent of a Thousand and One Stories CONTINUE READING: www.ufodigest.com/article/close-encounters-antarctica
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Post by auntym on Jun 14, 2013 12:52:07 GMT -6
Alien Base And Flying Saucer Found In Antarctica? 2013 HD
Published on Jun 8, 2013
Very interesting and intriguing images from Google Earth, which seem to show two possible entrances to an alien base or at least an entrance to something, and a huge saucer shaped object buried in the ice. If there are Alien bases in the Antarctic it would follow that there are ET craft their also.
Could the crashed saucer have come from one of these bases? And why have Google Earth censored the location? Interesting and worth a post. Images submitted via my website by Ryan Bolton.
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Post by auntym on Jun 14, 2013 13:22:29 GMT -6
very interesting...
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Post by skywalker on Jun 14, 2013 13:40:43 GMT -6
Could be a vent tube from a volcano. There are volcanos buried underneath all of that ice and the hot gasses and air have to get out somehow. It could have just heated its way through the ice and formed a very long ice cavern or tube. That could explain the cavern openings.
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Post by skywalker on Jun 14, 2013 13:48:30 GMT -6
I hadn't heard the story that the military had supposedly reported alien contact in Antarctica back in 47 and 48. I'll have to look into it and see if there is any truth to it.
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Post by swamprat on Apr 25, 2017 13:27:26 GMT -6
Mr. President, are you paying attention?
How a Melting Arctic Changes EverythingBy Eric Roston and Blacki Migliozzi Editor: Josh Petri April 19, 2017
Eight countries control land in the Arctic Circle. Five have coastlines to defend. The temperature is rising. The ice is melting. The race for newly accessible resources is beginning. And Russia is gaining ground.
This is the first in a three-part series.
Part I: The Bare Arctic The story of the Arctic begins with temperature but it’s so much more—this is a tale about oil and economics, about humanity and science, about politics and borders and the emerging risk of an emboldened and growing Russian empire.
The world as a whole has warmed about 0.9 degrees Celsius (1.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1880. Arctic temperatures have risen twice that amount during the same time period. The most recent year analyzed, October 2015 to September 2016, was 3.5C warmer than the early 1900s, according to the 2016 Arctic Report Card. Northern Canada, Svalbard, Norway and Russia’s Kara Sea reached an astounding 14C (25F) higher than normal last fall.
Scientists refer to these dramatic physical changes as “Arctic amplification,” or positive feedback loops. It’s a little bit like compound interest. A small change snowballs, and Arctic conditions become much less Arctic, much more quickly.
“After studying the Arctic and its climate for three-and-a-half decades,” Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data center, wrote recently. “I have concluded that what has happened over the last year goes beyond even the extreme.”
The heat is making quick work of its natural prey: ice.
Scientists track the number of “freezing-degree days,” a running seasonal tally of the amount of time it’s been cold enough for water to freeze. The 2016-2017 winter season has seen a dramatic shortfall in coldness—more than 20 percent below the average, a record.
Sea ice has diminished much faster than scientists and climate models anticipated. Last month set a new low for March, out-melting 2015 by 23,000 square miles.
Compared with the 1981-2010 baseline, the average September sea-ice minimum has been dropping by more than 13 percent per decade. A recent study in Nature Climate Change estimated that from 30-50 percent of sea ice loss is due to climate variability, while the rest occurs because of human activity.
Receding ice decreases the Earth’s overall reflectivity, making the Arctic darker and therefore absorbing even more heat.
The ice is not all the same age or thickness, although it has become somewhat more uniform. In 1985, about 45 percent of Arctic sea ice was made up of older and thicker multi-year ice. By 2016, that number shrank to 22 percent.
With a greater percentage of seasonal ice, which disappears each Arctic summer, nations of the north have more time and opportunity to explore the resources beneath and within their territorial waters.
The sea-ice loss is President Vladimir Putin’s gain. Already the largest country on the planet, Russia stands to gain access to shipping routes and energy reserves, and a strategic military advantage from the opening of the Arctic.
Along the Russian coastline, which makes up more than half the Arctic total, winds and currents push old ice away from potential shipping lanes and prevent the build-up of thicker, multi-year ice that would leave other parts of the Arctic impassable for longer periods. That dynamic helps bring the Northern Sea Route—shippers’ hoped-for Russian express between Western Europe and East Asia—closer to fruition.
Sea ice, by definition, is already in the water and therefore doesn't add to rising ocean levels as it dissolves. The same logic does not apply to Greenland’s melting glaciers and ice sheets. Last year, Greenland saw the second-largest melt on record. The hot season lasted a troubling 30 to 40 days longer than usual in the northeast portion of the region.
There's enough water locked up in Greenland’s ice sheet to raise seas worldwide by 20 feet. While it may take centuries to fully melt, scientists are concerned that we have a limited time to act to prevent the climate from locking in the ice sheet’s demise.
Life in the Arctic is changing along with the climate. “Green ice” has appeared in recent years. Named for its distinctive hue, this ice is so thin that sunlight shines through, allowing phytoplankton to thrive. Vegetation growth in parts of Canadian and Russian Arctic waters has boomed to from 5 and 19 percent above the 2003-2015 average, according to NOAA. What the change means for delicate ecosystems and fish stocks is the subject of increasing research attention.
In a presentation in November, Johan Rockström, environmental scientist and director of the Stockholm Resilience Center, reached for scientific euphemism to make manageable the enormous scale of these interlocking changes—and who needs to be thinking about them: "Canada, Russia and parts of the U.S. seem to be the Arctic nations subject to the largest, let’s say, set of diverse regime-shift risks."
In the long run, every part of the Arctic food web may have to adjust to the warming atmosphere’s byproduct: altered ocean chemistry.
Oceans do humanity a huge favor by absorbing some atmospheric carbon dioxide. However, when CO2 dissolves into water, it becomes a weak acid that, as it accumulates, may strain ecosystems that have evolved for today’s slightly alkaline waters. The change is happening globally, but cold water “acidifies” more quickly than warmer seas.
Arctic land stores about twice as much carbon as the atmosphere. While growing seasons—which are now either longer or newly possible, depending on the exact location—suck in carbon dioxide during the spring and summer, scientists believe the thawing lands are now emitting more carbon than they take in.
Perhaps the most visually dramatic change in the landscape has been occurring in Russia. Warming temperatures have accelerated the rate of natural underground methane leaks. The gas builds up in the soil, forming mounds called “pingoes.” When the pressure becomes too great, the ground explodes, leaving 30 to 40-meter-wide craters.
Seismologists have begun to install sensors in the Russian Arctic to give advance notice of fields ready to blow their top. These local events are a powerful visual example of how the world is changing in dramatic and surprising ways.
Many scientists who study the Arctic say that there’s simply no way such dramatic change at the top of the world can avoid affecting life below it. There’s already a cliche: What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic.
What’s true about the weather may also be true about the resources of the north, primarily energy and food. For the moment, Arctic and non-Arctic nations alike regularly collaborate on issues emerging at the top of the world. In a sense, they’re haggling politely—for now—over the ultimate renewable resource: geopolitical power.
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-arctic/
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Post by auntym on Jul 15, 2017 14:45:33 GMT -6
www.cnn.com/2017/07/14/world/sutter-iceberg-antarctica-climate-change/index.html?sr=twCNN071517sutter-iceberg-antarctica-climate-change0149PMVODtop That huge iceberg should freak you out. Here's whyBy John D. Sutter, CNN / www.cnn.com/profiles/john-d-sutter Sat July 15, 2017 EDITOR'S NOTE: "John D. Sutter is a columnist for CNN who focuses on climate change and social justice. Follow him on Snapchat, Twitter and Facebook or subscribe to his email newsletter. "(CNN)This week, a trillion-tonne hunk of ice broke off Antarctica. You probably know that. It was all over the Internet. Among the details that have been repeated ad nauseam: The iceberg is nearly the size of Delaware, which prompted some fun musing on Twitter about where exactly Delaware is and how anyone is supposed to approximate the square footage of that US state. The ice, which has been named A68, represents more than 12% of the Larsen C ice shelf, a sliver on the Antarctic Peninsula. And most important: None of this has anything to do with man-made climate change. The problem: That last detail -- the climate one -- is misleading at best. At worst, it's wrong. Some scientists think this has a lot to do with global warming. I spent most of Thursday on the phone with scientists, talking to them about the huge iceberg off Antarctica and what it means. Here are my five takeaways. 1. This doesn't NOT look like climate change.There is no disagreement among climate scientists about whether humans are warming the Earth by burning fossil fuels and polluting the atmosphere with greenhouse gases. We are. And we see the consequences. But there is some dispute about whether there is enough evidence to tie the breakoff of this particular piece of ice to global warming. In a widely quoted statement, Martin O'Leary, a Swansea University glaciologist who was part of the team studying Larsen C, said that the iceberg calving was "a natural event" and that "we're not aware of any link to human-induced climate change." Not everyone agrees with that assessment, however. At 6,000 square kilometers, the Larsen C ice sheet could be one of the world's biggest ever icebergs. Source: European Space Agency"They're looking at it through a microscope" rather than seeing macro trends, including the fact that oceans around Antarctica are warming, helping thin the ice, said Kevin Trenberth, a distinguished senior scientist at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research. "To me, it's an unequivocal signature of the impact of climate change on Larsen C," said Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of California, Irvine. "This is not a natural cycle. This is the response of the system to a warmer climate from the top and from the bottom. Nothing else can cause this." Rignot said colleagues who say otherwise are burying their heads "in the ice." 2. That said, this s*** is complicated.The difference in opinion stems, in part, from a perceived lack of data. Compared with other parts of the world, Antarctica is cold, weird, remote and hard to study. Some scientists say they don't have the super-long-term datasets they would need in order to prove that man-made warming affected this particular ice sheet. Conversely, they can't disprove global warming's contribution, either. "I myself don't see clear evidence convincing me that this is climate change-related," said Christopher Shuman, a research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. "I think we need to wait and see. We need to watch carefully and wait for the signs." If the Larsen C ice shelf continues to collapse, he said, we'll know that climate change had something to do with this week's events. If not, his theory will be confirmed, meaning the iceberg is part of a natural cycle of calving and regeneration. Nearby ice sheets with similar names -- Larsen A and B -- broke down for reasons that are related to climate change, Shuman said. The cause of Larsen C's break this week is less clear, he said, because it's winter in the Antarctic now; there was no evidence of meltwater on the surface of the iceberg, and there aren't enough data about temperature trends in that area, both in the water and in the air. Rignot, the scientist in California, said the fact that this collapse happened during the dead of winter in the Southern Hemisphere makes it all the more remarkable. He sees the broader collapse of the Larsen C ice shelf as inevitable. The question for him is when: likely 10, 20, maybe 30 years, he said. WATCH VIDEO & CONTINUE READING: www.cnn.com/2017/07/14/world/sutter-iceberg-antarctica-climate-change/index.html?sr=twCNN071517sutter-iceberg-antarctica-climate-change0149PMVODtop
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2017 19:27:59 GMT -6
Meh. Let the arctic thaw a little. I'm OK with a little thawing. 😆
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Post by swamprat on Apr 3, 2018 9:05:04 GMT -6
Antarctica's Underwater Ice Is Retreating 5 Times Faster Than It Should BeBy Brandon Specktor, Senior Writer April 3, 2018
When you imagine an Antarctic glacier melting, you probably envision great walls of ice avalanching into the ocean in jagged, splashing chunks. This is certainly happening — but it's only half the story.
At the same time, hundreds of feet inland and deep underwater where even remote-controlled submersibles cannot venture, the warming ocean is also chipping away huge swaths of Antarctica's frosty underbelly. According to a new study published yesterday (April 2) in the journal Nature Geoscience, ice is receding deep below eight of Antarctica's largest glaciers at an alarming rate — roughly five times faster than it should be. If this marine ice recession continues, it could lead to a total collapse of the world's largest ice sheet, the study found.
"Our study provides clear evidence that retreat is happening across the ice sheet due to ocean melting at its base," lead study author Hannes Konrad, a climate researcher at the University of Leeds in England, said in a statement. "This retreat has had a huge impact on inland glaciers, because releasing them from the sea bed removes friction, causing them to speed up and contribute to global sea level rise."
In the new study, Hannes and his colleagues at the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) at the University of Leeds used a combination of satellite imagery and buoyancy equations to map out the invisible retreat of underwater ice across roughly 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) of Antarctica's coastlines — roughly one-third of the continent's total perimeter.
The researchers focused on a geographic feature known as grounding lines — a vertical line projected upward from the underwater edge where glacier ice finally meets with solid ocean bedrock. On one side of this line, solid sheet ice sits atop the ocean floor like a sturdy continent; on the other side, ice swoops outward like a precarious ledge, which can float more than 0.6 miles (1 km) above the ocean floor. The further inland a glacier's grounding line retreats, the faster inland ice can flow into the attached ice shelf — and ultimately into the sea.
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Some grounding line retreat is expected in the centuries following an ice age, the researchers wrote, but current levels are far outpacing normal melt rates. Typically, grounding lines should retreat about 82 feet (25 meters) a year, they said. However, some of the studied regions — particularly in western Antarctica — have been receding at up to 600 feet (180 meters) per year. In total, the researchers found that, between 2010 and 2016, warming ocean temperatures melted away about 565 square miles (1,463 square km) of underwater ice from Antarctica — roughly the area of the city of London, England.
The good news is, only about 2 percent of the entire Antarctic grounding line retreated at such high rates, and some parts of the continent aren't seeing a retreat at all. The bad news is, these if these accelerated rates don't slow down, they could lead to parts of Antarctica's inland ice sheet totally collapsing into the ocean. According to a 2017 study, such a collapse would likely put the world on track for experiencing worst-case-scenario sea level rise of 10 feet (3 meters) by 2100.
Further study of Antarctica's grounding lines is needed to understand why some regions of the continent are receding so drastically while others stand still. According to the researchers, the methods developed for their new study should make future observations of this invisible melting ice much easier.
www.livescience.com/62203-antarctica-underwater-ice-loss.html?utm_source=notification
Addendum; see images of melt: www.livescience.com/25120-melt-images-vanishing-polar-ice.html
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Post by auntym on Oct 24, 2018 23:43:03 GMT -6
www.space.com/42234-weird-square-iceberg-antarctica.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social NASA's Found a Weird, Rectangular Iceberg in AntarcticaBy Rafi Letzter, Live Science Staff Writer October 23, 2018 Credit: NASA IceBridge From yesterday's #IceBridge flight: A tabular iceberg can be seen on the right, floating among sea ice just off of the Larsen C ice shelf. The iceberg's sharp angles and flat surface indicate that it probably recently calved from the ice shelf. Look at that iceberg. It's beautiful. Perfectly rectangular. An object of near geometric perfection jutting into a polar sea of the usual squiggly, chaotic randomness of the natural world. It calls to mind the monolith from "2001: A Space Odyssey." But, unlike the monolith from that very weird movie, this iceberg was not deposited on this world by space aliens. Instead, as Kelly Brunt, an ice scientist with NASA and at the University of Maryland, explained, it was likely formed by a process that's fairly common along the edges of icebergs. "So, here's the deal," Brunt told Live Science. "We get two types of icebergs: We get the type that everyone can envision in their head that sank the Titanic, and they look like prisms or triangles at the surface and you know they have a crazy subsurface. And then you have what are called 'tabular icebergs.'" [In Photos: Huge Icebergs Break Off Antarctica] Tabular icebergs are wide and flat, and long, like sheet cake, Brunt said. They split from the edges of ice shelves — large blocks of ice, connected to land but floating in the water surrounding iced-over places like Antarctica. This one came from the crumbling Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. Tabular icebergs form, she said, through a process that's a bit like a fingernail growing too long and cracking off at the end. They're often rectangular and geometric as a result, she added. "What makes this one a bit unusual is that it looks almost like a square," Brunt said. It's difficult to tell the size of the iceberg in this photo, she said, but it's likely more than a mile across. And, as with all icebergs, the part visible above the surface is just the top 10 percent of its mass. The rest, Brunt said, is hidden underwater. In the case of tabular icebergs, she said, that subsurface mass is usually regular-looking and geometric, similar to what's visible above. This iceberg looks pretty fresh, she said — its sharp corners indicate that wind and waves haven't had much time to break it down. But despite the berg's large mass, Brunt said, she wouldn't advise going on a walk on its surface. "It probably wouldn't flip over," she said. The thing is still much wider than it is deep, after all. But it's small enough to be unstable and crack up at any moment. So, it's probably best to marvel at the thing from a distance. Originally published on Live Science. www.space.com/42234-weird-square-iceberg-antarctica.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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Post by auntym on Dec 1, 2018 13:37:50 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/11/a-mysterious-radioactive-heat-source-is-melting-antarctica-from-below/
A Mysterious Radioactive Heat Source is Melting Antarctica from Belowby Brett Tingley / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/bbtingley/November 28, 2018 Antarctica might as well be another planet. There is still much left to explore on the frozen continent on the bottom of the Earth, and it seems like each week there’s a new discovery which adds to the growing mystery of what might lie beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. Strange lost continents? Unknown, bizarre organisms? Secret Nazi bases? How about all of the above, that do anything for ya? This week, the latest bizarre Antarctica news concerns a mysterious, radioactive heat source melting the Antarctic ice sheet from below. Is this one of those crashed alien spacecraft the Google Earth people keep warning us about, or just some unknown geothermal process? Of course it’s gonna be some boring rock phenomenon. It’s never aliens. Until it is. Scientists with the the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) found areas of the Antarctic Ice Sheet were melting unexpectedly quickly and used radar to peer through three kilometers of ice to determine what might be causing the melting. What the researchers discovered is an area twice the size of London which appears to be melting from the bottom up. The researchers found that unusually radioactive rocks and hot water bubbling up from deep within the Earth were causing the melt, and the source of the radioactivity remains unknown. Thus, while the usual boogeyman of climate change can’t be cited as the cause, Dr. Tom Jordan from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) says this new phenomenon could speed up the melting caused by global warming: The process of melting we observe has probably been going on for thousands or maybe even millions of years and isn’t directly contributing to ice sheet change. However, in the future the extra water at the ice sheet bed may make this region more sensitive to external factors such as climate change. The discovery of this phenomenon was completely unexpected and shows how much more we have to learn about Antarctica. In many ways, the icy continent is one of the last great frontiers here on Earth – at least above the ocean. What secrets will it reveal in the future? mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/11/a-mysterious-radioactive-heat-source-is-melting-antarctica-from-below/
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Post by auntym on Dec 31, 2018 15:58:16 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/12/mysterious-space-sounds-being-picked-up-in-antarctica/ Mysterious Space Sounds Being Picked Up in Antarcticaby Paul Seaburn / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/paulseaburn/December 31, 2018 As the guys who just became the first and second humans ever to cross the continent on a solo expedition can attest, Antarctica is one quiet place to be. Besides hearing a pin drop to the ice at your feet, that eerie silence means sounds carry, allowing one to hear a pin drop or a glacier break from miles away. It’s hard enough to identity those sounds being picked up on the horizontal plane … it can be nearly impossible and sometimes scary when they’re coming down from space. Aliens? The researchers aren’t completely sure of the cause, but while they study the sounds, they’re also selling the mysterious recordings to the makers of video games to blast us with them too. Wait … what? WHAT? “The new exploration gameplay, gives players the chance to experience the amazing ‘sounds of space’ for themselves. The players, who already have an interest in exploration and space, will hopefully enjoy the new space ‘sounds’ and be tempted to find out a little more about them.” Dr. Nigel Meredith is an (evil?) scientist working for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) at the Halley Research Station on the Brunt Ice Shelf for four years (too long?) revealed that the sounds he and the team have been recording and trying to identify were packaged together and given to game developers Frontier Developments who this month released them onto the general public in a new exploration game called Elite Dangerous with the hope that the eerie sounds will somehow draw others to Antarctica to study them (is he lonely?). “Our planet produces a wonderful variety of radio emissions. As we know, we can’t hear things in space. Since sound waves are vibrations, typically of air molecules. But the emissions we’re talking about are mainly electromagnetic waves and they cannot be heard directly.” So, the mysterious space sounds picked up by the Halley VLF receiver at the station are beyond the range of normal human hearing and suspected to be the sounds of all manners of electromagnetic disturbances, from lightning strikes to geomagnetic space storms. Once isolated, Meredith gives them descriptive names such as “spherics” (these sound like hail hitting cement and are from lightning activity), “whistlers” (high-pitched sounds like radio feedback caused by lightning energy trying to escape Earth’s atmosphere) and the “chorus” (caused by solar storms, these sound like birds and insects in a rainforest. In addition to being in the Elite Dangerous game, the sounds can be heard on the British Antarctic Survey’s website (here’s the link … if you want to risk being pulled to spend time in Antarctica with Dr. Nigel some day). “It’s mind-blowing that you get such fascinating (and baffling) audio from listening to nature throwing a ton of solar wind at a magnetic ball.” Joe Hogan, lead audio designer for Elite Dangerous, explained in an interview with Gizmodo why he was attracted to Dr. Nigel’s mysterious sounds for the game. The money he’s making at Frontier Developments has probably kept him from being pulled to Antarctica … for now. Maybe he can do us all a favor and give Dr. Nigel a job at the company – Cambridge UK is a little warmer than Antarctica and Frontiers Development has plenty of people to keep the scientist from being lonely. Otherwise, he’s going to continue to sit next to the Halley VLF receiver, recording mysterious space sounds and messing with our minds and our hearing. I SAID, HE’S GOING TO CONTINUE TO SIT NEXT TO THE HALLEY VLF RECEIVER, RECORDING MYSTERIOUS SPACE SOUNDS AND MESSING WITH OUR MINDS AND OUR HEARING. Too late? mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/12/mysterious-space-sounds-being-picked-up-in-antarctica/
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Post by randy on Jan 1, 2019 10:51:02 GMT -6
In this stiuation you never know what is in the water. We would not have any likely immunity from a 20,000,000 yr old bug. Probably nothing there to worry about but can you take the chance of human extinction lightly no matter how remote
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Post by auntym on Mar 30, 2019 13:05:55 GMT -6
New Linda Moulton Howe Something HUGE Has Been Discovered in AntarcticaUAMN TV Published on Mar 28, 2019 Underground in Antarctica they have found doors up-to 18 feet thick, made of rock hard basalt. Even though they weigh many tonnes they can open with just the touch of a finger. On the back of these doors are the symbol of the black sun. The interior was heated to around 68-72 degrees Fahrenheit (20-22 Celsius), and was also lighted by a lime green source projected from the ceiling and floor. He did not see any heating or lighting equipment, which added to the mystery of the buried structure. Only part of the structure has been uncovered so far by the archaeological teams, with the rest buried under the ice and extending far below. www.earthfiles.com/
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2019 13:48:14 GMT -6
Is Antarctica Always called Antarctica Or was it called something else? Whatever is called at onetime . Was It always icy? It must have been a tropical paradise, Advanced Civilization, Alien Hotspot, or something.. Why is the military keep Antarctica for themselves ?
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May 16, 2019 19:41:16 GMT -6
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Post by skywalker on May 16, 2019 19:41:16 GMT -6
Antarctica wasn't covered with ice until about 6000 years ago. Before that it actually had rivers flowing on it. Millions of years ago it was covered by jungles with many plants and animals running around. Paleontologists have found numerous dinosaur skeletons down there. There's never been any hint of prehistoric human (or nonhuman) civilization though.
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Post by auntym on May 17, 2019 13:27:59 GMT -6
i've read there's a city beneath antarctic...and we have men there...
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Post by auntym on Nov 11, 2019 21:00:32 GMT -6
Google Earth Image Shows Massive Alien Face In Antarctica!
•Nov 11, 2019
Google Earth Image Shows Massive Alien Face In Antarctica!
Google Earth Image Shows Massive Alien Face In Antarctica People like strange news, you would not see this video if you don’t. You know that Google is not only about education. It has like a real maze within itself and if you want to find something strange it can gladly help you. So what a mystery was found this time… and where?
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