• Question: Do you think the vostok is linked to the end of the world?

    Asked by jk141 to Alex, Chris, Harriet, Jed, Ken on 12 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Ken Gibbs

      Ken Gibbs answered on 9 Mar 2012:

      I doubt it. I assume you mean Lake Vostok in Antarctica (rather than the space rocket in which Yuri Gagarin flew to be the first man in space). If you mean the lake, then sampling the water may tell us about life as it was over 400,000 years ago but will be unlikely to tell us about the future.

    • Photo: Harriet Fletcher

      Harriet Fletcher answered on 9 Mar 2012:

      I am not sure which Vostok you are asking about, could you explain a bit more please and do you think it is linked to the end of the world?

    • Photo: Jed Ramsay

      Jed Ramsay answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      Not sure – I always thought the end of the world was most likely to come from the earth being struck by a huge asteroid!

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