Sub-Ice Antarctic Lake Vida Abounds With Life

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @02:06AM from the time-to-make-a-pan-galactic-gargle-blaster dept.

ananyo writes "It is permanently covered by a massive cap of ice up to 27 metres thick, is six times saltier than normal sea water, and at 13 C is one of the coldest aquatic environments on Earth — yet Lake Vida in Antarctica teems with life. Scientists drilling into the lake have found abundant and diverse bacteria, including at least one new phylum (full paper (PDF)). The find increases the chances that life may exist (or have once existed) on planets such as Mars and moons such as Jupiter's Europa."

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Game idea... by staltz · 2012-11-27 02:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

A great adventure game idea has been bugging me for some years, related to this. Antarctica is actually a huge ice plateau, at least 1km thick. I imagined a game in which the player discovers that Atlantis is hidden beneath that 1km thick ice. The people there live assuming that the outer world is post-apocalyptic, destroyed by a massive meteor.
Well, if someday I develop this game, you know the spoilers already.