OT: Cool science, Barb T, and Cthulu

[CameronCat]

I'll admit to being a science junkie on the layman level; I love a good story about interesting stuff that make me think. Even if that's not your thing, you've probably read about the Russian science team in Antarctica that just completed drilling through more than two miles of ice to reach Lake Vostok 12,365 ft below.

The water in the lake is believed to have been iced over 14-20 million years ago and been undisturbed in that time. I'm fascinated by what can or might be learned from such samples. How cool is this?--anybody else as taken with it as I am?

If our resident geologist Barb T is around, I'd love to hear her take on all this, and perhaps get her insights. (There are two other drilling projects on deep lakes also underway in different locations.)

And although I haven't read the Lovecraft books, I've learned a bunch from those here who have the "kilts with certain green stripes." So, just speculating, but might there be one of, erm, them :cthulhusmiley: down there?