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Apparently, Russian scientists are mere meters away from drilling into a lake buried under two miles of ice. A vast and mysterious lake, buried deep in Antarctica, that has been isolated from the outside world for 35 million years. The team of ambitious scientists has ventured into this remote region of the now-barren continent to discover whether the lake might still be home to ancient, unknown forms of life, even as many of their colleagues elsewhere say that the risks are too great and that it shouldn't be done.
Someone needs to ship these folks a copy of At the Mountains of Madness, quick!
In other news, the Kepler orbital planet-hunting telescope recently announced it has found 1200 possible planets orbiting other stars, including 54 in the "habitable zone" of their parent stars (five of which aren't far from Earth's size). These discoveries haven't remotely gotten old for me, and it will be absolutely incredible to watch these numbers get refined and the world's count of Earth-like candidates continue to rise. It could end up being absolutely maddening if we find that we have absolutely no way to ever get there, though.
Someone needs to ship these folks a copy of At the Mountains of Madness, quick!
In other news, the Kepler orbital planet-hunting telescope recently announced it has found 1200 possible planets orbiting other stars, including 54 in the "habitable zone" of their parent stars (five of which aren't far from Earth's size). These discoveries haven't remotely gotten old for me, and it will be absolutely incredible to watch these numbers get refined and the world's count of Earth-like candidates continue to rise. It could end up being absolutely maddening if we find that we have absolutely no way to ever get there, though.