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Rather Creepy
Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 7:40 am
by Danial
I've been reading
At The Mountains of Madness lately and have just gotten up to the "history lesson" where he mentions the Elder Things moving to a sub-terranean lake under the original city. Now, this kind of creeped me out because just the other day I was reading online about a great sub-glacial lake in Antarctica (Lake Vostok), discovered in only 1996, that just happens to be located
very close to where Lovecraft described this ancient city. Does anyone else find that as bizarre as I do?
P.S. This is my first post here, so please be gentle
Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 1:33 pm
by Jesus Prime
Morning.
Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 4:27 pm
by Hodgson
Welcome. Do you have a link to that story?
Incidentally, I did come across an item today in Discover magazine:
"Seismologists scan Earth's interior and find an ocean underneath eastern Asia. The buried water is at least the volume of the Arctic Ocean."
But that's all it says. I'll post more if and when I find it.
Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 4:47 pm
by Hodgson
Here's the link about the underground "ocean". It seems the phrasing was somewhat misleading. It is a quantity of water contained in rocks, not a large body of water.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... -asia.html
Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 4:50 pm
by Hodgson
For those interested, here is a place to start reading about Lake Vostok.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Vostok
Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 6:01 pm
by Eternities End
Snap Hodgson, u shot him down
Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 2:26 am
by Danial
That's actually where I first read about it
Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 12:19 pm
by Jesus Prime
Why was the first thing I thought about when I saw that link the Tunguska Event?
Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 12:49 pm
by JJ Burke
that's funny, i was thinking 'krasnoyarsk'
Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 1:43 pm
by E.A. Lovecraft
Jesus Prime wrote:Why was the first thing I thought about when I saw that link the Tunguska Event?
My guess is you were drunk again.
Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 2:31 pm
by Jesus Prime
But it's only tuesday evening! It's not hammered-time till thursday.
Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 4:25 pm
by JJ Burke
you are wery wulnerable to wodka
Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 3:47 pm
by Jesus Prime
Ugh, anything but. I am hunting wabbits though.
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 11:12 pm
by E.A. Lovecraft
I hate wabbits. The little bastards hop around looking all cute and innocent, then you subject yourself to weeks of sore muscles by planting trees and shrubs and plants, and the next thing you know, the fuzzy sons-of-bitches have eaten all your plants. Then, when winter comes, they strip the bark off the trees and shrubs and kill 'em.
Fucking rodents. God bless high-powered air rifles.
Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 9:47 am
by Jesus Prime
See, that's why we hunt them.