Originally Posted by Gorman
The ice is 4000 meters thick, so its a lot of drilling, and they don't want to contaminate the lake which could kill whatever is down there.
They are sending a probe.
Would the probe contaminate the water to? I do not think that what your saying makes any sense because anything from outside of the ice would contaminate the water would it not?
Originally Posted by Tempor
Would the probe contaminate the water to? I do not think that what your saying makes any sense because anything from outside of the ice would contaminate the water would it not?
When they say contaminate they are talking about things such as soil or dirt or unsanitized areas that could contain microbes that could damage the ecosystem.
To use a metaphor, when sailors visited the islands the Dodos were on, there were rats on their ships, which eventually wiped out the Dodos (among other factors). The rats are essentially the contaminant, where as the ship is the probe.
They have to be very careful to not introduce anything potentially harmful in to this sealed ecosystem, that they can not observe without risk.
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This is pretty awesome, I just hope they dont get too exited and contaminate all over the place.
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Originally Posted by 4zb41
Wouldn't having to burrow through 4000 meters of ice effectively incapacitate any microbes on the probe anyway? I mean most bacteria we know of are active at warm temperatures, die when it gets too hot, and freeze up when it's too cold.
Did you watch the cave that some weird insects existed were they didn't even need the sun light? That's why they think that there might be a possibility that they could find bacterias deep between those ice sheets.
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