Organism 46-B is a terror out of a sailor's Lovecraft influenced kraken filled nightmares. The creature disabled the radio during the attack, cutting off the researchers contact with the outside world. However, Organism 46B is much more evolved. Specimen 46b as the Russian scientists have labeled it, is a very different form of Cephalopod. As well as this, there are hundreds and hundreds of lakes flowing below the icy surface. Only with more grasping sucker covered arms. By using these abilities and contorting its boneless body into other shapes, the species is capable of imitating numerous aquatic creatures and even taking the form of a human diver. This seems unlikely given the pressure caused by the ice. Some of the theories were bordering on outlandish. The waters of Vostok have been isolated for at least 15 million years. Then Scott Rogers published in July 2013 that his team performed nucleic acid (DNA and RNA) sequencing and the results allowed deduction of the metabolic pathways represented in the accretion ice and, by extension, in the lake. We thought it was one of my colleagues swimming towards us in scuba gear. The Mimic transforms physically into one of fifteen aquatic animals like a lionfish (or sea serpent), or jellyfish. If this crude oil seeps upward via fractures, conduits, or porous sedimentary rock layers, it may pool up at the surface. Underneath Antarctica's miles of ice, you'll find approximately 400 subglacial lakes. Organism 46-B is a highly successful apex predator with human like intelligence. [12][13][14] A new borehole was drilled and an allegedly pristine water sample was obtained in January 2015. In his own words, it was a strange and terrifying monster known as Organism 46-B. It is hypothesized that unusual forms of life could be found in the lake's liquid layer, a fossil water reserve. Escaping the creature, a member of the team managed to lop off one of 46-B's tentacles, although later the limb attacked the group again. it wasn't long before Organism 46b. However, the programs director immediately ordered the hole plugged. The story is almost certainly fictional, with at least one source citing the story to author C. Michael Forsythe (although the article I found online written by him lacked details found in many of the other articles). "It shaped itself into the form of a human diver. Lake Vostok is the largest freshwater lake in Antarctica. . [20][37] There is a 1 microtesla magnetic anomaly on the east coast of the lake, spanning 105 by 75km (65 by 47mi). A more outlandish theory is the possibility a severed tentacle could grow back into a full creature. This was to prevent contamination of the lake with the 60-ton column of Freon and kerosene used to prevent the borehole from collapsing and freezing over. Measuring 250km (160mi) long by 50km (30mi) wide at its widest point,[1] it covers an area of 12,500km2 (4,830sqmi) making it the 16th largest lake by surface area. Or Hoax? We encountered Organism 46-B on day one as we were conducting a preliminary dive in our low-temperature [dry suits]. [1] According to the head of Russian Antarctic Expeditions, Valery Lukin, new equipment was developed by researchers at the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute that would ensure the lake remains uncontaminated upon intrusion. The assumption is that the lake has been sealed from the surface since the ice sheet was formed 15 million years ago. This newly discovered creature is similar to the glass octopus, its nearest "relative" in the aquatic world. Our motto always is, "you make up your own mind". We thought it was one of my colleagues swimming towards us in scuba gear. Using their most agile crew member, Dr. Marta Kalashnik, as bait, the unit would eventually capture the creature. On the first day of the expedition, the creature was found during a dive that required a low-temperature wetsuit. [16], Russian scientist Peter Kropotkin first proposed the idea of fresh water under Antarctic ice sheets at the end of the 19th century. According to official accounts, the Russians did reach the water level with a core sample hole drilled into Lake Vostok in 2012, however it was not big enough to accommodate a person. Example 2: The second casualty was tricked by an image of a human diver in scuba gear. Organism 46-B is said to be an enormous 33ft-long, 14-tentacled squid-like aquatic creature which lived in Lake Vostok, a subglacial lake located under two miles of ice beneath Vostok Station in the Antarctic. She is estimated to have lived around 10,000 years ago. In 2005 an island was found in the central part of the lake. Again, quoting Quayle in his aforementioned book, Someone, or something, has summoned the worlds leaders. UI designer : Jaetheme.com. [citation needed] The Russian team plans to eventually lower a probe into the lake to collect water samples and sediments from the bottom. And the fact that Organism 46-B is said to have changed itself to look like a diver. It was shortly after they set up camp and began their initial dives that they discovered the creature they dubbed Organism 46-B. Padalka took refuge in Switzerland after assessing an unknown life form in Lake Vostok. And, for one unfortunate scientist, a deadly affair. The creature designated Organism 46-B was an aquatic beast allegedly captured by a Russian scientific team near the research outpost Vostok Station. [10], The first core of freshly frozen lake ice was obtained on 10 January 2013 at a depth of 3,406m (11,175ft). Indeed, as we know from the published experiments at Lake Vostok, there most certainly is water below under the ice. $158,000. [56][57] Taxonomic classifications (to genus and/or species) or identification were possible for 1,623 of the sequences. In Luthors hands it possibly could be used to replicate such abilities in humans. [24] It is suspected that these Antarctic subglacial lakes may be connected by a network of subglacial rivers. Unlike its distant cousin, it is roughly the size of a colossal squid, with 14 arms and abilities similar to several other species in the Cephalopoda class. There was no mention of any other special equipment like an atmospheric diving suit or bathyscaphe to deal with the pressure. According to Padalka, though, as soon as they brought it to the surface, Russian security personnel took charge of it. SKIP TO 00:17:00 TO GET TO THE STORY Welcome to Episode 109: Lake Vostok & Organism 46-B! Its possible the lakes under Antarctican ice are considered hidden seas by them and hiding places of powerful artifacts. He and/or the researchers at Cadmus would be quite interested in the genetic code of Organism 46-B. It will use creative tactics to ambush its prey or to render its victims helpless before it strikes. Or more to the point, in this case, its ability to change its form altogether to mimic other creatures. Helper(s): Animals Article, Ethan Roe for Initiative spot-checking, Write-up completed on the 20th of October, 2020. The only human presence on Antarctica is a collection of international scientists. Russian geographer, Andrey Kapitsa is arguably the first person to suggest that such an environment [2] may exist under the thick sheets of ice during visits to Vostok Station (which the lake is named after) in the early-1960s. Lake Vostok ( Russian: , ozero Vostok) is the largest of Antarctica 's almost 400 known subglacial lakes . The expedition chief, A.M. Yelagin decided they would need a plan to capture the creature. Organism 46-B is a terror out of a sailors Lovecraft influenced kraken filled nightmares. Number of parts equals APs of power. Underneath Antarctica's miles of ice, you'll find approximately 400 subglacial lakes. The fish is known to produce antifreeze proteins. While such incidents are certainly not unique or exclusive to Russia, several significant incidents, if we accept for a moment their absolute genuineness, have unfolded below the surface of the water. It was also able to hypnotize one of the scientists, who was also their radio operator, Dr. Alexis Vindogradov. Russian and French scientists have been carrying out molecular DNA studies of the water from Lake Vostok that was frozen in the borehole, by constructing numerous DNA libraries,[13] which are collections of fragments of DNA that allow scientists to identify which species of bacteria they may belong to. There is optimism that microbial life in the lake may be possible despite high pressure, constant cold, low nutrient input, potentially high oxygen concentration and an absence of sunlight. We watched helplessly as it used its arms to tear off his head then popped his remains in its mouth. [23] Then, in January 2006, the discovery of two nearby smaller lakes under the ice cap was published; they are named 90 Degrees East and Sovetskaya. [4], The overlying ice provides a continuous paleoclimatic record of 400,000years, although the lake water itself may have been isolated for 15[7][8] to 25 million years. If you don't like what you read you can unsubscribe at any time. later the arm returned to strangle the reasercher in her sleep.After this Dr Anton decided he had to capture the creature and that it would be one of the most important discoveries in human history and Apparently he did just that. However, it is certainly possible that the team was doing more than drilling core samples. Here was an almost identical place where not only could their theories be tested, but so could a certain amount of logistics in actually penetrating the ice in the first place. However, once they did venture down below the surface of the Antarctic ice, they would discover something altogether deadlier. [26][27], The Lake Vostok basin is a small (50-kilometer-wide (31mi)) tectonic feature within the overall setting of a several-hundred-kilometer-wide continental collision zone between the Gamburtsev Mountain Range, a subglacial mountain range and the Dome C region. Appendix J - Reduced Delta Reliance Addendum to 2015 UWMP-2021.06.24. Not least due to the apparent reasons for the confiscation of the strange creature. Setimus And The Aztec UFO Crash The First Alien Contact Encounter Of Modern Times? [13] Regardless of the contamination issues, in May 2013 the drilling facility at the Russian Vostok Antarctic station was declared a historic monument as "the result of the recognition of the achievements of the Russian research of Antarctica by the international scientific community, and of the unique operations on opening the subglacial Lake Vostok performed by Russian scientists on February 5, 2012. Andrey Kapitsa Insight Lake Vostok The Organism: A Holistic Approach to Biology Derived from Pathological Data in Man UFO 270 Tags 1 Tweet 1 Twitter List 375 Reflections from Mars may be caused by something stranger than water . Space-based radar revealed that this subglacial body of fresh water is one of the largest lakes in the world, and one of some 140 subglacial lakes in Antarctica. This mystery is cultivated, in part, by international powers that insist on secrecy and place the vast majority of the icy region off-limits. In Cthulhu Mythos, Arkhams Miskatonic University sent an expedition to Antarctica over a mysterious mountain range dubbed The Mountains of Madness.The mountains were actually walls to a massive city of ruins. A much more menacing form then has ever been encountered perhaps ever before! However, the reasons for this, as well as the outcome of this unique meeting, were not divulged. It paralyzes its prey at up to 150 feet away, even through dry suits. Before we look a little further at some of the recent claims we will remind ourselves of just why, at least officially, Lake Vostok is of interest to scientists in the first place. Antarctic glacial ice covers the lake, roughly 4,000 meters thick. Samples taken from the lake so far contain about one part of kerosene per 1000 of water, and they are contaminated with bacteria previously present in the drill bit and the kerosene drilling fluid. The scientists installed a single person elevator in the ice tunnel which allowed them to descend through the ice to make camp on an ice shelf carved near the shore of the lake. After 30 years of ice core drilling, the research team finally breached through to the lake on the 5th February 2012. The coldest naturally occurring temperature ever observed on Earth, 89C (128F), was recorded at Vostok Station on 21 July 1983. "Later that night it slid across the ice bank and strangled her," stated Padalka. 2020 Urban Water Management Plan & Water Shortage Contingency Plan. [76] Additionally, hot-water drilling would have required more power than the Russian expedition could have generated at their remote camp. Centre for Polar Observation & Modelling glaciologists propose that many of the subglacial lakes of Antarctica are at least temporarily interconnected. The strange creature seizes and dismembers prey using a powerful beak, breaking the food source into pieces. If there were somehow hidden caverns beneath the ice and something besides pressure keeping the water liquid, it might be more consistent with what is described. Dr. Padalka and his story was made up by the fiction author C. Michael Forsyth [1]. Required fields are marked *. Kropotkin's theory was further developed by Russian glaciologist I. 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Sealed Systems is the Free Diving package, but represents an octopus (and in this case the tentacles) ability to climb out of the water. [4] Kapitsa was the first to suggest the existence of a subglacial lake in the region,[5] and the subsequent research confirmed his hypothesis. The waters in Lake Vostok are under a tremendous amount of pressure, equating to 355 bar (355 times the pressure of the atmosphere at the surface sea level) due to the ice pressing down on it. We will come back to this later. I mean the neurotoxin that poisoned a diver in a complete water tight suit is very far fetched. A. Zotikov, who wrote his PhD thesis on this subject in 1967. Dr. Padalkas account describes the lake as having a shore just below the ice where the scientists made camp. [28] The lake water is cradled on a bed of sediments 70 meters (230ft) thick, offering the possibility that they contain a unique record of the climate and life in Antarctica before the ice cap formed. "It shaped itself into the form of a human diver. Sequences from aerobic, anaerobic, psychrophilic, thermophilic, halophilic, alkaliphilic, acidophilic, desiccation-resistant, autotrophic, and heterotrophic organisms were present, including a number from multicellular eukaryotes.[56]. Perhaps Organism 46-Bs most frightening ability is to release a powerful neurotoxin. [18], When British scientists in Antarctica performed airborne ice-penetrating radar surveys in the early 1970s, they detected unusual radar readings at the site which suggested the presence of a liquid freshwater lake below the ice. This octopus-like entity would prove to be elusive, deceptive, and deadly. Particularly when part of those claims revolves around weaponized DNA, from a shapeshifting aquatic entity no less. According to reports and leaks from a former member of the project, Dr. Anton Padalka, a discovery of a 14-armed octopus would prove a breakthrough. Growth is always on and already figured into the stats. [14] Also Sergey Bulat, a Lake Vostok expert at the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute in Gatchina, Russia, doubts that any of the cells or DNA fragments in the samples would belong to organisms that might actually exist in the lake. With some tweaks to represent Organism 46-Bs human level intelligence and its unique abilities. "[4], Lukin claims that hot-water drilling is much more dangerous for the microbiotic fauna, as it would boil the living species, and disturb the entire structure of water layers of the lake. Underneath Antarctica's miles of ice, you'll find approximately 400 subglacial lakes. Our latest book, Historys Most Bizarre, Outlandish, And Controversial UFO And Alien Encounters contains over 60 encounters. Regeneration is physical damage only , but allows regrowth of lost limbs. 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