Last year, the team drilled through almost 4km (2.34 miles) of ice to reach the lake and retrieve samples.

Vostok is thought to have been cut off from the surface for millions of years.

This has raised the possibility that such isolated bodies of water might host microbial life forms new to science.

"After putting aside all possible elements of contamination, DNA was found that did not coincide with any of the well-known types in the global database," said Sergei Bulat, of the genetics laborator...
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Christine Ngai, of the University of Nevada, Reno, was among the researchers who found the first goldfish during a survey of invasive fish in the lake.

“You just see this bright golden orange thing starting to float up, and you’re like, what is that? And then you take a net and you scoop it up and you’re like, it’s a goldfish,” Ngai said of the initial discovery.

Ngai had heard stories from fishing guides about large goldfish, but they were the first to document the species.

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But, let’s take a look at what Nikola Tesla — a man who died broke and alone — has actually given to the world. For better or worse, with credit or without, he changed the face of the planet in ways that perhaps no man ever has.

1. Alternating Current – This is where it all began, and what ultimately caused such a stir at the 1893 World’s Expo in Chicago.
2. Light – Of course he didn’t invent light itself, but he did invent how light can be harnessed and distributed.
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An ambitious mission to drill through 3km (1.8 miles) of Antarctic ice to a lake that has been sealed off for thousands of years has been cut short.

The team at Lake Ellsworth decided to call off the mission in the early hours of Christmas Day UK time.

They were unable to join the main borehole with a parallel hole that was to be used to recover drilling water.

The team is now "weatherising" the equipment and it is unclear when they will be able to resume the project.

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I'm a bit slow on this news item due to the fact that when first reported some took it as a hoax and then I forgot about it,,,I find it quite fascinating that it has taken this long for the "evidence" to be found as this theory was one proposed back in 1997,,,never one to believe in the global flood theory I found the Ryan/Pittman theory palatable and supported in a sense by the numerous flood myths,,,

Columbia University researchers William Ryan and Walter Pittman speculated in their 1997 b...

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Researchers found a diverse community of bugs living in the lake's dark environment, at temperatures of -13C.< Furthermore, they say the lake's life forms have been sealed off from the outside world for some 2,800 years.< Details of the work have been outlined in the journal PNAS.< Lake Vida, the largest of several unique lakes found in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, contains no oxygen, is acidic, mostly frozen and possesses the highest nitrous oxide levels of any natural water body on Earth.< ...
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,,,as proposed by some,,,

,,,This indicates tectonic forces have acted in a north to south direction at Titan’s equatorial region and have resulted in regular effects in Titan’s crust, evidence that will help scientists better understand Titan’s crust and interior.

Tectonics on Titan
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This device, part sci-fi, part-DIY, is providing the most detailed and high quality images ever taken of these elusive symbols cut into clay tablets. This is Indiana Jones with software.

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He believes this was not just a case of the scribes having a bad day at the office. There seems to have been an unusual absence of scholarship, with no evidence of any lists of symbols or learning exercises for scribes to preserve the accuracy of the writing.

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And even if quarks and electrons are indivisible, Parker said, scientists don't know if they are the smallest bits of matter in existence, or if the universe contains objects that are even more minute.

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An idea called superstring theory could solve this issue. The theory posits that all particles, instead of being point-like, are actually little loops of string. Nothing can get infinitely close to a loop of string, because it will always be slightly closer to one part than another. That "...
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"He really typifies all of the major types of learned magic, from summoning and conjuring demons, to exorcising demons to the powers of cloaking himself, making himself invisible," said John Chuchiak IV, a professor at Missouri State University who translates and publishes documents recording the opening of the trial in his new book "The Inquisition in New Spain 1536-1820"(John Hopkins University Press, 2012).

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At the start of the trial, Calderón was denounced in a speech by Miguel López...
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This research follows reports earlier in the year of renewed earthquake activity beneath the volcano after it had been silent for the past 25 years. The reports have spurred concerns the volcano could erupt in the near future, but when that might happen is still unclear, researchers said in a statement.

"Before this work, we didn't really know how the volcano behaved during the periods of time between eruptions," David Pyle, an Oxford University researcher and study co-author, told OurAmazingP...
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This is actually the fourth time parts of the wreckage have become visible over the years, after it first made an appearance following Hurricane Camille in 1969. It reappeared in 2004 after Hurricane Ivan and again in 2008 after Hurricane Ike.

"Based on what we know of ships lost in that area and what I've seen, the Monticello is by far the most likely candidate," Museum of Mobile marine archaeologist Shea McLean told the Birmingham News in 2008. "You can never be 100 percent certain unless ...
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Maybe a Lake Ellsworth episode in the future,,,and yes, John Carpenter's  "The Thing" jokes are once again flying around the web in regards to this attempt,,,

Their target, Lake Ellsworth, may house tiny organisms utterly new to science, and may proffer the first solid clues regarding the age of the massive ice sheet that covers it.

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The massive undertaking is aimed at one simple goal: to fetch 24 small titanium canisters of lake water — just 3.3 ounces (100 milliliters) each — along wi...
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"This is a very valuable finding," said Carlos Wester La Torre, head of the excavation and director of the Brüning National Archaeological Museum in the Lambayeque region—a region named after the little-known culture that built the stacked tomb. "The amount of information of this funerary complex is very important, because it changes [what we know of] the political and religious structures of the Andean region."

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Four sets of waterlogged human remains were found in the flooded tomb, one...
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Lincoln's mental stability was called into question after she suffered from depression following the deaths of not only her husband but also two of her young children. She allegedly spent the years after President Lincoln's death attempting to communicate with him via seance.

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The dueling legal teams will dress in period clothes from the era but will argue their case relying on current law. Actors will play the roles of Mary Todd Lincoln and Robert Todd Lincoln, but real-life judges will s...
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There should be a caveat of YET at the end,,,science is not the end all-be all, but a starting point for eliminating what it is not,,,i think eventually science will be able to explain some of these things, but one has to remember that science deals with facts, not truth,,,

Top Ten Unexplained Phenomena
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iologists using tools developed for drawing evolutionary family trees say that they have solved a longstanding problem in archaeology: the origin of the Indo-European family of languages.

2 IDEAS GENERALLY HELD AS TRUE,,,
Linguists believe that the first speakers of the mother tongue, known as proto-Indo-European, were chariot-driving pastoralists who burst out of their homeland on the steppes above the Black Sea about 4,000 years ago and conquered Europe and Asia. A rival theory holds that, to...
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The world is full of mysteries, and the human race loves nothing better than to find answers to them. Frequently, though, the answers aren't as popular as the mysteries themselves, and people will just continue right on believing, even when the evidence is right there, why don't you just look?! Just look, you bastard!

Oh really,,,I have a hard time believing that people such as Linda Moulton Howe, Stanton Friedman, Paul Eno, John Zaffis, Whitley Strieber, etc are so easily fooled,,,,

10 Fa...
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In 1976, the late Zecharia Sitchin stirred up a great deal of controversy with the publication of his book, The Twelfth Planet. In this and subsequent books, Sitchin presented his literal translations of ancient Sumerian texts which told an incredible story about the origins of humankind on planet Earth - a story far different and much more fantastic than what we all learned in school.

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It's an astonishing story, to say the least. Most historians, anthropologists and archeologists consider...
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The wreckage of a military plane found this month on an Alaska glacier is that of an Air Force plane that crashed in 1952, killing all 52 people aboard, military officials said Wednesday.

Army Capt. Jamie Dobson said evidence found at the crash site correlates with the missing C-124A Globemaster, but the military is not eliminating other possibilities because much investigation still needs to be done.

Processing DNA samples from relatives of those on board the pla...
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An excavation on Salisbury plain has proved an unusually emotional experience for the volunteer archaeologists, as soldiers recovering from injuries received in Afghanistan have made a surprise discovery: the remains of warriors who died more than 1,400 years ago.

[,,,] Mike Kelly, from 1 Rifles, found a skeleton with its head covered by a shield. He believes the position was a sign of respect to a fallen warrior. "I have been to war myself and I can imagine what the soldier would have felt ...
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Think there is much more to this story which needs to be looked at,,,wondering how this may relate to epigenetics (Bruce Lipton "work"),,,

Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance, intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self healing, affirmation techniques, unusual light/auras around people (namely spiritual masters), mind’s influence on weather patterns and much more. In addition, there is evidence for a whole new type of medic...
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For almost two millennia, the piles of wood lay undisturbed and largely intact under layers of hardened volcanic material. Now, after three years of painstaking work, archaeologists at Herculaneum have not only excavated and preserved the pieces, but worked out how they fitted together, achieving the first-ever full reconstruction of the timberwork of a Roman roof.

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What his archaeologists uncovered, however, was something altogether more comprehensive – almost 250 pieces, which they ...
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The bushranger killed three policemen before being captured in Victoria in 1880 and was hanged for murder at Old Melbourne Jail in November of the same year.<>br>
But his body went missing after it was thrown into a mass grave. The bodies in the grave were transferred from the prison to Pentridge Prison in 1929 and then exhumed again in 2009.

The exploits of Kelly and his gang have been the subject of numerous films and television series, including a portrayal by Rolling Stone Mick Jagger i...
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Britain's Atlantis' - a hidden underwater world swallowed by the North Sea - has been discovered by divers working with science teams from the University of St Andrews.

Doggerland, a huge area of dry land that stretched from Scotland to Denmark was slowly submerged by water between 18,000 BC and 5,500 BC.< Divers from oil companies have found remains of a 'drowned world' with a population of tens of thousands - which might once have been the 'real heartland' of Europe.

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‘We have specula...
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Today New York City is the Big Apple of the Northeast but new research reveals that 500 years ago, at a time when Europeans were just beginning to visit the New World, a settlement on the north shore of Lake Ontario, in Canada, was the biggest, most complex, cosmopolitan place in the region.

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Now, a scholarly book detailing the discoveries is being prepared and a documentary about the site called "Curse of the Axe" aired this week on the History Channel in Canada.

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"It's the large...
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As a review, we are talking of the mysterious mountain in France. Last week we debunked in a way the alleged "upside-down" theory of the mountian and a very brief tie in to the Mayan Long Count Calender.

This week we will continue,,,

Now for some fun, legends and myths, and a little less mind bending,,,I hope!!

There are 2 myths in particular that I want to focus on, but to give you and idea, the internet abounds with tales: the late President François Mitterrand, being curiously heli...
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Pacific sleeper sharks, also known as Greenland sharks, are commonly seen in the waters around Alaska and have been known to grow up to 14 feet in length. If a sleeper shark has managed to survive in Lake Iliamna, Wright says it would have an abundance of fish to feed on and no natural predators.

[,,,] Wright says the sleeper sharks have "proven themselves to be very adaptable" and may become the Arctic's top predator due to the effects of global climate change. The sleeper sharks tradition...
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New photographs reveal what lies beneath the surface of Easter Island, one of the most remote places in the world -- the carved bodies of the island's 887 famous guardians.

“It’s the first time that one has been excavated in such a way that the documentation was complete and scientific,” she told FoxNews.com. Other groups have dug in the past, and looters have found their way to the remote island as well.

Easter Island archaeology project digs up island's secrets
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"However, what allegedly happened on May 19 is very different. In this case, the UFOs were allegedly summoned (or predicted) by a man named Robert Bingham, who says he is in contact with extraterrestrials. They told him (and he told dozens of others) where and when to look in the skies to see them. If that is true, why wasn't the video better composed? Or, why didn't he bring in local news teams, with their high-quality professional cameras?"
UFOs 'Summoned' and Videoed Over L.A.?
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• Drilling successful as scientists break through into lake buried miles under Antarctic ice
• Scientists confirm breakthrough into buried lake
• Have raised sample of 40 litres of water
• Frozen sample will be removed in December in next Antarctic summer
  
• 'Like exploring another planet except this one is ours', scientist
  
• Lake has had no contact with man-made pollutants or Earthly life forms for millions of years

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Washington Post National By Marc Kaufman, Published: January 31

After drilling for two decades through more than two miles of antarctic ice, Russian scientists are on the verge of entering a vast, dark lake that hasn’t been touched by light for more than 20 million years.

Scientists are enormously excited about what life-forms might be found there but are equally worried about contaminating the lake with drilling fluids and bacteria, and the potentially explosive “de-gassing” of a body ...

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