Thread: After 30 years of drilling, scientists have reached the surface of Lake Vostok
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Old 02-07-2012, 8:34am   #35
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Originally Posted by Mike Mercury View Post
realistically, the water isn't ever more that 13,000 years old.
But whatever is living in the water has been genetically isolated from the rest of the planet for 25 million years.

Presumably mutating and waiting... waiting.... waiting.... for The Day.
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