Scientists discover life in Antarctica

“It appears that there lies a large wetland ecosystem under Antarctica’s ice sheet, with an active microbiology.” — There's some really exciting news coming from the land at the bottom of the world.

• [alkali]

  I’ve seen this movie — get the heck out of there!

  • [Finnagain]

     No! They can’t be allowed to leave the site!

  • [bcsizemo]

    Come on now, it’s obviously the blob:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=0GEJgR-bX0w#t=128s

• [Peter]

  I’m just going to remind these crews to stop when they find the six-foot tall albino penguins.

  If you hit a frothing lake of protoplasmic bubbles occasionally forming eyes, mouths, or temporary appendages, or huge oval-shapped barrels with starfish appendages at both ends, you’ve gone too far.

  • [fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

    I always deal with those situations by letting the RA from Miskatonic go first, simple enough.

• [feetleet]

  Europa ftw.  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)#Potential_for_extraterrestrial_life

• [tomrigid]

  Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes?

• [eldritch]

  Headline: “Scientists discover life in Antarctica”.

  …ya know, apart from all the penguins, seals, orcas, albatrosses, shags, petrels, skuas, pigeons, sheathbills, terns, prions, shearwaters, pintails, gulls, blue whales, krill, plankton, kelp, squid, lichens, liverworts, algae, icefish, et cetera, et cetera…

• [ApostateGland]

  Hail Cthulhu.