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Putin boosts presidential campaign with a tot of Antarctic ice prehistoric water
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was given a water sample Friday taken from a pristine lake hidden under Antarctic ice for over a million years, after Russian scientists drilled down to its surface. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules“The costly project is a rare triumph for national science and has excited scientists around the world with its potential for discoveries of new forms of life and revelations about millions of years of the Earth's history.”
Feb 11th, 2012 - 02:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They should have saved their money. Only the stupid ones were excited. Nearly all the major league players at this around the world had decided NOT to breach the water due to the possible contamination that would occur.
But hey, what else can Putin do to impress his people? Everything else he has tried does not seem to have had the results he thought it would.
The people themselves shouting that the elections were rigged AND that's supposed to be news in Russia?
I thought all water was like 4 billion years old(or something like that).
Feb 12th, 2012 - 08:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Is this a terribly bright thing to do? Wasn't there a story about deadly and antibiotic-resistant bacteria in Antarctic water a couple of days ago?
Feb 12th, 2012 - 11:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 02 JuanStanic
Feb 13th, 2012 - 10:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Probably, the majority of it, but do not forget that modern combustion processses 'release' water in the form of vapor all the time.
3 Rufus
Exactly, but when has 'bright thing' ever been attributed to the old KGB dynosaur who is Putin? And yes, the resistant bacteria could prove ideal for his next biological warfare programme.
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Feb 13th, 2012 - 06:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You're right. I stand corrected.
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