Russians Retrieve First Sample of Lake Vostok

astroengine writes "Russian drilling operations at Lake Vostok, Antarctica, have succeeded in collecting a long-sought core sample of water frozen into the borehole from the glacier-covered, 20 million-year-old lake they cracked into last year. 'The first core of transparent lake ice, two meters long, was obtained on Jan. 10, at a depth of 3,406 meters (11,174.5 feet). Inside it was a vertical channel filled with white bubble-rich ice,' stated the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, part of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring."

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Uh oh

[Anonymous Coward]

This is how a horror movie starts.

At least we already know...

[Faw]

the names of the future Patient Zero

Re:The real question is

[MightyMartian]

Frozen piss, of course.