Unprecedented

Hopefully, nothing will go wrong:

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 of water that has especially high concentrations of oxygen and nitrogen.

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  1. their work is “like exploring an alien planet where no one has been before. We don’t know what we’ll find.”

    Whatever they find I hope it stays there with them. Heck, maybe they’ll find Jimmy Hoffa or somebody……

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