Antarctic Expedition To Track Down Extreme Living Creatures 69
WirePosted tips us to a story about a group of scientists who are heading to Antarctica to study organisms that thrive in climates too extreme for most other life forms. The team will be visiting a lake that has a pH "like strong Clorox," the sediments of which "produce more methane than any other natural body of water on our planet." The scientists hope to learn about the potential for life in other unforgiving climates, such as those on Mars or the various ice-covered moons in the Solar System. Expedition leader Richard Hoover was quoted saying, "This will help us decide where to search for life on other planets and how to recognize alien life if we actually find it." We've previously discussed Antarctic microbes as they related to conditions on Mars.
Extreme living, eh? (Score:3, Funny)
Oh they'll find it (Score:5, Funny)
Mix 'em up! (Score:4, Funny)
X-Treme Life Forms (Score:5, Funny)
Kirk: SPOCK! How. Can that... BE... possible?
McCoy: If what you're describing is true, we've discovered the most extreme organism in the entire galaxy.
Spock: Indeed, Doctor. Most intriguing.
This is asking for trouble... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:A first step to terraformation as well? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I don't get it. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Oh they'll find it (Score:3, Funny)
Shoggoth, Shoggoth, Shoggoth, I made you out of flesh... [youtube.com]
The fun guys from Yuggoth [youtube.com]
Shoggoth on the Roof [youtube.com]
I saw mommy kissing Yog-Sothoth [youtube.com]
Dupe, or repeated trip (Score:4, Funny)
Here's [dagonbytes.com] a description of the trip from one of the members of the expedition.
Here's [wikipedia.org] a Wikipedia entry on the expedition.
To the tune of "Jesus Loves me" (Score:3, Funny)
For the old ones told me so
Human souls to him belong
They are weak but he is Strong!
Yah, Cthulhu Fh'tagn!
Yah, Cthulhu Fh'tagn!
Yah, Cthulhu Fh'tagn!
The old ones told me so!
Re:extreme facist crusader zealots cracking planet (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Producing Methane? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, they've tried
Re:To the tune of "Jesus Loves me" (Score:3, Funny)
We're slimey, we're squishy, we're all a little fishy,
and in this adventure we'll be feasting on your brains.
We're abysmal creatures, with gross horrific features.
In Cthuloid adventures, lose alot of sanity.
So here's Miskatonic U. where all the creatures dwell,
take a look at a mythos book and find yourself in hell.
Your guns aren't defective, they just aren't real effective.
Our feast of human flesh and souls is about to start.
Your magic, and voodoo will not stop Great Cthulhu.
Don't eat with the Tchoo Tchoo, and the Migo steal your brain!
Here's Narly, Tsathoggua, over there's Cthugha,
don't forget Ithaqua, and Hastur hates his name.
So here's sunken R'lyeh where the angles are all wrong.
You'll lose your soul, and go insane if you stay there too long.
We're slimey, we're squishy, we're all a little fishy,
Our feast of human flesh and souls is about to start.
And now we'll eat your heart.
Re:A first step to terraformation as well? (Score:1, Funny)
Hmm. If we're going to plan ahead, how about not making your great grandchildren so numerous that they need to terraform whole planets, eh? Sounds a lot easier, a lot more reliable, and a lot more aesthetically pleasing.
I will never figure out the blind expansionism of the space-colonizer types...
Re:Oh they'll find it (Score:3, Funny)
I see the eyes have it.
Or maybe the other way around.