things that scare me
I let myself do this. I find something that I know litle about, and I research it to death. It is a good way to always continue learning, which I believe is important for a person; but often I discover things that frighten me. For example:
Antarctica is not a solid land-mass like most of us think it is. It is actually a collection of islands encompassed by a continguous ice sheet. This ice sheet is up to 4 kilometers thick in some places. Like many islands, there are fresh water lakes in some of the islands below the ice of Antarctica. Here's the kicker: the lakes are still liquid. Lake Vostok, the largest of the lakes (comparable in size to the median of the Great Lakes,) has not seen sunlight, nor has it in any way been tampered with since well before Lucy (A. Africanus)walked the earth. I'v been ice fishing, I know for a fact that fish can live in water that is below the ice. I have seen footage of those terrifying beasts that live so far deep in the ocean that they have never seen light. To further terrify me; according to experts there is no definitive reason that life could not still exist in Lake Vostok.
Let me stress this: life that has not been on this planet for over 6,000,000 years may still be swimming around in a lake that for all intents and purposes may as well be Dante's deepest level of hell.
Now for the important part: we are drilling down to it. We got close, but stopped in 1998 because we didn't have the technology to reach the lake without polluting it. Now we do. The gears are turning to get permission to start the drill again.
Bring on the giant, 6 foot blind penguins. Bring on the star-headed Old Gods. But the thought of a Shuggoth terrifies me!
Antarctica is not a solid land-mass like most of us think it is. It is actually a collection of islands encompassed by a continguous ice sheet. This ice sheet is up to 4 kilometers thick in some places. Like many islands, there are fresh water lakes in some of the islands below the ice of Antarctica. Here's the kicker: the lakes are still liquid. Lake Vostok, the largest of the lakes (comparable in size to the median of the Great Lakes,) has not seen sunlight, nor has it in any way been tampered with since well before Lucy (A. Africanus)walked the earth. I'v been ice fishing, I know for a fact that fish can live in water that is below the ice. I have seen footage of those terrifying beasts that live so far deep in the ocean that they have never seen light. To further terrify me; according to experts there is no definitive reason that life could not still exist in Lake Vostok.
Let me stress this: life that has not been on this planet for over 6,000,000 years may still be swimming around in a lake that for all intents and purposes may as well be Dante's deepest level of hell.
Now for the important part: we are drilling down to it. We got close, but stopped in 1998 because we didn't have the technology to reach the lake without polluting it. Now we do. The gears are turning to get permission to start the drill again.
Bring on the giant, 6 foot blind penguins. Bring on the star-headed Old Gods. But the thought of a Shuggoth terrifies me!