What's Hidden Under Greenland's Ice?

Roland Piquepaille writes "Ice has covered Greenland for millions of years. So what's hidden under this ice cap? Mountains and valleys? Rivers and lakes? Of course, we might know it sooner than we would have liked if the ice covering Greenland continues to melt. But researchers from Ohio State University have decided that they wanted to know it next year and have developed a radar to reveal views of land beneath polar ice. Their first tests of this new radar, which helps them to catch 3-D images of the ground under the ice, took place in May 2006. The next images will be shot in April 2007. Here are some images of the new GISMO device and what it can do."

Aliens!

[LiquidCoooled]

Lots of nasty body popping evil dog maiming spider infesting damned aliens.

Would you close the damned door so they don't get in.

Totally required

[andy314159pi]

Jimmy Hoffa.

I thought everyone knew..

[frieza79]

Lambeau Field

Just for the record...

[SaDan]

I do not want to hear about global warming as the cause of all the melting ice in Greenland if we're going over there and effectively microwaving the place to get pretty pictures of what's underneath.

What's hidden?

[I Like Pudding]

It's Waldo. Obviously.

Re:Simple

[east coast]

Don't tell the unwitting fools! I need them to further the cause.

A Great Mystery

[nxtr]

The article makes Greenland seem like a woman and the ice seem like a bra. So far, I can most certainly tell you that whatever is under the ice are not bags of sand.

Re:Iceland?

[AndroidCat]

The real question is what is under Iceland's green?

The world biggest volcanic-powered grow-op?

That's why they called it GREENland

[The Monster]

They didn't get too far from the coast, or they might have realized the error. You know the first rule of Medieval Warm Period Club? Don't talk about the Medievel Warm Period. The Global Warming people don't have an explanation for it (reverses the direction of the Hockey Stick), nor the fact that Mars has been warming up, so they want us to just... LOOK! Britney Spears' coochie!

Re:What is the US telling whom?

[Loadmaster]

Well, it is Ohio State doing the research so I can only assume this is a veiled threat against the rogue state of Michigan.

Swi

Re:Underneath sovereign territory

[rbanffy]

It's a well known fact Greenland is not only harboring terrorists under the ice cap, but also developing nuclear weapons and other means of mass-destructions. They are also suspect of being major factors in the climate change.

They must be invaded so the threat can be neutralized.

I know what it is...

[bigsam411]

an ancient 66 square-kilometer ice shelf, the size of 11,000 football fields

Re:Since this is a Roland P. Slashdot story

[middlemen]

or since this is Slashdot, most of the people will not even bother reading the article thus reducing Roland's cash in totality...

Re:Real Estate

[Waffle Iron]

...And judging from the Mercator projection map that I had on my wall as a kid, it's LOTS of real estate. It looks like more than the entire continental USA, maybe more than all of South America. Probably it's even much bigger than that, but it's hard to tell because they cut the top off Greenland at the edge of the map. It looks like probably goes on and on as you go farther north, though. This global warming thing could be a huge boon to land developers!

Re:Since this is a Roland P. Slashdot story

[AltGrendel]

Well actually, this is probably where Atari buried all those "ET" game cartridges.

Re:Since this is a Roland P. Slashdot story

[Anonymous Coward]

and he's getting $0.01 per page hit.
$.01 or .01 cents?

Re:A Great Mystery

[jcwayne]

Q: How many geeks does it take to get a woman's bra off?
A: 8, but they will only remove it in 1% strips and take 9 months to process the visuals.

Re:Iceland?

[larry bagina]

That reminds me of a joke:

Q: What's in CmdrTaco's brown?

A: Zonk's white!

What's Hidden Under Greenland's Ice?

[Anonymous Coward]

Osama Bin Laden

Re:Just a guess..

[Bastard of Subhumani]

It was never particularly green. The name was dreamed up by an early form of marketroid pushing a real estate scam.