Topic: Breaking news: Russian scientists drilling into lake Vostok have disappeared.
Ks !KansasxqvM started this discussion 14 years ago #16,777
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/02/russian-scientists-lost-in-frozen-land-lost/Haven't heard from them in five days. End of world eminent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maQhn96AhuI
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 6 minutes later[^] [v] #286,881
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When the main expedition loses contact, a party is sent to investigate. The camp is devastated and both the men and the dogs slaughtered. Near the camp they find six star-shaped snow mounds, and one specimen buried under each. They discover that some form of dissection experiment has been done on a unidentified man and a dog.
The party flies an airplane over the mountains, which they soon realize are the outer wall of a huge, abandoned stone city of cubes and cones, utterly alien compared with any human architecture. Because of their resemblance to creatures of myth mentioned in the Necronomicon, the builders of this lost civilization are dubbed the "Elder Things". By exploring these fantastic structures, the men are able to learn the history of the Elder Things by interpreting their magnificent hieroglyphic murals: The Elder Things first came to Earth shortly after the Moon was pulled loose from the planet and were the creators of life. They built their cities with the help of "Shoggoths", biological entities created to perform any task, assume any form, and reflect any thought. As more buildings are explored, a fantastic vista opens of the history of races beyond the scope of man's understanding, including the Elder Things' conflicts with the Star-spawn of Cthulhu and the Mi-go who arrived on Earth some time after the Elder Things themselves. The images also reflect a degradation in the order of this civilization, as the Shoggoths gain independence. As more resources are applied to maintaining order, the etchings become haphazard and primitive. The murals also allude to some unnamed evil in an even larger mountain range just past their city which even they fear greatly. Eventually, as Antarctica became uninhabitable even for the Elder Things, they migrated into a large, subterranean ocean.
When the main expedition loses contact, a party is sent to investigate. The camp is devastated and both the men and the dogs slaughtered. Near the camp they find six star-shaped snow mounds, and one specimen buried under each. They discover that some form of dissection experiment has been done on a unidentified man and a dog.
The party flies an airplane over the mountains, which they soon realize are the outer wall of a huge, abandoned stone city of cubes and cones, utterly alien compared with any human architecture. Because of their resemblance to creatures of myth mentioned in the Necronomicon, the builders of this lost civilization are dubbed the "Elder Things". By exploring these fantastic structures, the men are able to learn the history of the Elder Things by interpreting their magnificent hieroglyphic murals: The Elder Things first came to Earth shortly after the Moon was pulled loose from the planet and were the creators of life. They built their cities with the help of "Shoggoths", biological entities created to perform any task, assume any form, and reflect any thought. As more buildings are explored, a fantastic vista opens of the history of races beyond the scope of man's understanding, including the Elder Things' conflicts with the Star-spawn of Cthulhu and the Mi-go who arrived on Earth some time after the Elder Things themselves. The images also reflect a degradation in the order of this civilization, as the Shoggoths gain independence. As more resources are applied to maintaining order, the etchings become haphazard and primitive. The murals also allude to some unnamed evil in an even larger mountain range just past their city which even they fear greatly. Eventually, as Antarctica became uninhabitable even for the Elder Things, they migrated into a large, subterranean ocean.
Ks !KansasxqvM (OP) replied with this 14 years ago, 3 minutes later, 10 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #286,882
@previous (B)Eventually, as Antarctica became uninhabitable even for the Elder Things, they migrated into a large, subterranean ocean.
We're all gonna die.
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Depressionchina !iYiU6PBDWI joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #286,913
Hollow Earth Theory. I guess Alex Jones was right after all!
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 5 hours later, 7 hours after the original post[^] [v] #287,077
I have felt something stirring. Why can't humans ever let things be?
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 4 hours later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #287,187
Losing communication with the Vostok Station isn't exactly rare.
Nega !34Kas0OdzM joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 2 hours later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #287,231
At his house at R'lyeh~
Anonymous E replied with this 14 years ago, 1 day later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #288,429
> "John Priscu, a Montana State University Antarctic researcher, told the Washington Post the Russian scientists had told him they were just 40ft from where the waterline is thought to lie. But he insists the Russians are not lost.
> 'I can assure you that they are not lost or out of contact,' he wrote in an email to Foxnews,com. 'I never said the Russians were lost.'
> 'I can assure you that they are not lost or out of contact,' he wrote in an email to Foxnews,com. 'I never said the Russians were lost.'
Nega !34Kas0OdzM replied with this 14 years ago, 9 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #288,432
Bracing for Second Impact.
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 36 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #288,444
The obvious rational explanation for this is they actually reached the lake which was under high pressure due to it's underground nature. Water spouts up in a geyser like fashion only to freeze into shards of ice in the frigid Antarctic air. The team was killed in the incredible ice storm and the hole was frozen over with a layer of ice sufficient to resist the lakes internal water pressure.