It's been done many times, including on an old episode of Dr. Who and at least one made-for-TV movie.
Posted by: "Lin Kerns" linkerns@gmail.com lin.kerns
Date: Sat Oct 15, 2011 8:22 am ((PDT))
Wasn't that the premise of "The Thing?"
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@gmail.com> wrote:
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> What a great premise for a sci-fi/horror movie where something ancient
> and/or extraterrestrial and nasty gets unleashed on a modern defenseless
> world.
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> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Robert Blau <robert-blau@webtv.net>wrote:
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>> Geologists Prepare to Drill Into Ancient Antarctic Lake
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>> A team of British researchers are preparing to dig down through
>> three-kilometer-thick ice to sample a lake under the Antarctic in the
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>> hope of finding new species and clues about the future impact of climate
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>> change.
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>> A team of engineers with 70 tons of gear are to head for Lake Ellsworth
>> in West Antarctica. The lake has been isolated from the outside world
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>> for at least 125,000 years--but it could be as many as a million. It's
>> about 10km long and two to
>> three kilometers wide.
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>> The team's mission is to prepare the way for the "deep-field" research
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>> mission that will take place in October 2012. They will then use hot
>> water to melt through 3,000 meters of ice in order to reach the lake,
>> which remains liquid due to geothermal heat coming from inside the
>> Earth. This technique has been used before in Antarctic experiments, but
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>> never this deep. The hot-water drill will need to operate continuously
>> for three days to create a 36cm wide borehole through the ice.
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>> Read more:
>> http://ow.ly/6UU9k
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