Verify for yourself on google earth. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBbYeZKRe8o]YouTube - Liquid Water and Antarctica Mysteries[/ame] Peak Oil, Economic Collapse are a Fraud: Liquid water in Antarctica Antarctica Mysteries
Are you behind some agenda to convince people not to research what I am suggesting people to research and VERIFY for themselves. I do not go into your topics and posts, and with no logic or reasoning say something that is a complete fabrication to misdirect other peoples thoughts and opinions.
I'm not sure what this is meant to prove? Lakes are common in Antarctica in the summer. Is this anything to do with Mr Hoagland by any chance? "The entire basis for the earth being solid" does not rest on someone throwing a ball in the air. MelT edit: This is some of the research, quite interesting: By Rachel Rettner LiveScience Antarctica's icy lakes are home to a surprisingly diverse community of viruses, including some that were previously unidentified. At first glance, Antarctica's freshwater lakes don't seem very hospitable to life. They remain frozen for a good nine months out of the year, and they contain very few nutrients. Some of these lakes have little animal life and are dominated by microorganisms, including algae, bacteria, protozoans and viruses. With few animal and microbial predators around, viruses likely play an important role in controlling the abundance of other microorganisms, the researcher say. However, these viruses have been historically hard to study since many cannot be grown in a laboratory. But thanks to new genome sequencing technology, scientists can identify viruses without needing to grow them. "We are just starting to uncover the world of viruses, and this is changing the way we think about viruses and the role they play in microbial ecosystems," said Antonio Alcami, a researcher from the Spanish Research Council. A virus is little more than a package of DNA surrounded by a capsule structure. To survive, viruses must hijack, or infect, living cells and use the host's equipment to replicate. Alcami and his colleagues analyzed DNA from viruses found in water samples collected from Antarctica's Lake Limnopolar, a surface lake on Livingston Island. They found nearly 10,000 species, including some small DNA viruses that had never before been identified. In total, the viruses were from 12 different families, some of which may be completely new to science, the researchers suggest. The results reveal this Antarctic lake supports a virus community that's more diverse than most aquatic environments studied in the world so far — a surprising find considering that the polar region is generally thought to have low biological diversity due to the extreme environmental conditions. The scientists speculate the newly discovered viruses may have adapted specifically to thrive in such harsh conditions. The team also found the community of viruses changed dramatically depending on the season. When the lake was ice-covered in the spring, the liquid water under the ice was inhabited by mostly small viruses, but in the summer months when the ice melted, the lake was home to mostly larger viruses. "It looks like a completely different lake in summer," Alcami said. The scientists think the shift might be due to an increase in algae in the summertime, which the larger viruses infect. The researchers hope to figure out whether any of the viruses are unique to Antarctica. If so, that would shed light on whether microbial life evolved independently in Antarctica, which has been isolated for millions of years, or they were introduced there more recently. The paper was published in the Nov. 6 issue of the journal Science.
The lakes aren't frozen to their full depth during the winter, only the surface water is. The organisms live in the remaining liquid water - and the ice too - all year around. MelT
Not at all, that's a really good topic at present with all the new forms of life we're finding on earth living happily in extremes of both hot and cold. From above boiling point to below freezing, some eating rock and metals and not breathing oxygen, life is everywhere MelT
Dude, I live in Canada, our lakes are frozen 6 months out of the year. They are teeming with life, fish, reptiles, mammals, you name it. Life can live in the most extreme conditions far worse than a frozen lake.
well if they can live in harsh conditions such as this and near thermal vents, then the universe might be abundant with life we just don't know about yet
this changes everything no but really im a little confused...what is your point? i mean first of all weve already known that water can exist in sub 0 temps (salt lowers the freezing point of water). furthermore weve also known for some time now that extremophiles can happily go about their business in these waters.