# Russia: Lake Vostok

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**Created:** [February 7, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russia-lake-vostok/262600 "2012-02-07T21:10:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/russia-lake-vostok/262600/19 "2012-02-09T15:57:43Z")

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> [@Paging Nelstoys .....](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/paging-nelstoys/48138/10):
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> If they find something living it will be cool since the level of oxygen is considered toxic and there has been no way to replenish energy sources for millions of years. It would make plausible the existence of life on icy planets and moons we previously thought incapable of supporting life. If they don’t find anything then it would be significant as the only large body of water on our planet with no life in it. Either way I think it is cool.
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> They broke into the water already and as they expected the pressure of the water pushed into the hole and forced much of the antifreeze up with it. As for being a waste of money, I guess some people just find science interesting.

Doesn’t need to have use/breath oxygen for it to be considered “living” Hell there are creatures that live deep in certain caves that consume nitrogen/sulfur dioxide and excrete sulfuric acid. No that’s not a joke. I would assume that they expected the artisian effect when they broke through, and why they were not worried about lake contamination by the kero as the petroleum would just float on the water column anyway and be expelled.

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