Lake Vostok Found Teeming With Life 62
jpyeck writes "Lake Vostok, Antarctica's biggest and deepest subsurface lake, might contain thousands of different kinds of tiny organisms — and perhaps bigger fish as well, researchers report. The lake, buried under more than 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of Antarctic ice, has been seen as an earthly analog for ice-covered seas on such worlds as Europa and Enceladus. It's thought to have been cut off from the outside world for as long as 15 million years. But the latest results, reported in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, suggest that the lake isn't as sterile or otherworldly as some scientists might have thought. More than 3,500 different DNA sequences were identified in samples extracted from layers of ice that have built up just above the surface of the lake."
Are any of them potentially dangerous? (Score:5, Funny)
They should get one of the clipboard guys to chug a bottle and see if he mutates.
Don't dig up the spaceship (Score:5, Funny)
That ends badly
After all the fuss (Score:5, Funny)
...it turns out to be life as we know it
Drop a few kilos of explosives down the chute (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Are any of them potentially dangerous? (Score:5, Funny)
Screw dangerous, I'm wondering how those fish *taste*.