Magnetic Anomaly In Antarctica

Antony writes: "Scientists have discovered a huge magnetic anomaly in the Australian claim area of Antarctica - a vast unseen freshwater lake that has been isolated from the rest of the planet for millions of years. The Antarctic Sun online newspaper reported that the freshwater reservoir, Lake Vostok, was the centre of an environmental debate as Amercian scientists, led by NASA, wanted to drill into the lake three to four kilometers under the ice. The Antarctic Sun says the evidence is a huge magnetic anomaly on the east coast of the lake's shoreline." I thought the article about Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty monitoring in Antarctica was more interesting...

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[Xunker]

Gee, did you ever consider the fact that I *wasn't* talking about the anomoly? I was talking about other aspects of the lake. If you couldn't grasp that, well...

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[nuggz]

And it is the size of Lake Ontario, not Ontario

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[vrmlguy]

Xunker, could you please re-read the headline? The story isn't about the Lake, it's about the discovery of a magnetic anomaly.

Anomaly?

[DamienMcKenna]

Ug The Caveman must have dropped his C64 and not remembered where he left it...

This is old news, remember the Ross Expeditions?

[MrJerryNormandinSir]

Ahh this brings back High School days ('80). we were studying the Ross Expeditions. And around the area where the Lake was found they discovered some strange finds.. the mainstream media had them down as exhausted and that they must have hallucinated. Just dig around your local Library and check out the net. Running streams, green vegatation (Volcanic activity?).

hehe

[jokrswild]

How about we call it AMA-1, Instead of TMA-1 (2001: A Space Odyssey)

Other theories?

[Mhrmnhrm]

A couple of thoughts popped into my head with this one... One of the (many) theories of Atlantis point to the Antarctic as the home of the mythical city. Other ideas include prehistoric meteors (Remember, this is where the "Mars Rock" came from). And, of course, back in the early 90s, Accolade claimed in Star Control 2 that the Ur-Quan bombed something deep under the Antarctic ice cap.

More info...

[groo518]

Scientific American ran an article on Lave Vostok within the last year. They have an article [sciam.com] at their site with more info.

groo

XFiles...

[funkman]

Maybe the end of the XFiles movie wasn't as absurd as we thought? Great big space ship taking off from the antarctic.

Re:Cue Strauss.

[Brazilian Geek]

What about the ecosystem under 2 to 3 miles of ice, sounds kinda like 2010 and 2061 - imagine all the fantastic creatures just wobbling around down there. Truly an awsome thing to daydream about... :)

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Cue Strauss.

[babbage]

"Scientists have discovered a huge magnetic anomaly..."

Fancy that, just over a month into 2001 and we dig up a "magnetic anomaly" in some remote place. Anyone wanna bet that we'll find a huge shrieking black monolith at the center of it?

;)

Old News.. sorry

[Xunker]

Sad to say, but the existence of Lake Vostok has been known for at least 18 months, and has been assumed to exist for much longer.

Though I have to admit the prospect of a virgin body of untouched water the size of Ontario is a very cool thing to contemplate.

American Scientist noted the lake in 1999 [sigmaxi.org], as did SCAR [scar.org] and Earth Sciences News [earthsciencenews.com] -- ESN also talks about some 'microbes' found near/in it, and they have a telling graphic of the lakes' actual size. Cool stuff.