#Lake Vostok & Organism 46-B

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Lake Vostok & Organism 46-B

Welcome to Episode 109: Lake Vostok & Organism 46-B! Underneath Antarctica’s miles of ice, you’ll find approximately 400 subglacial lakes. The largest of these is Lake Vostok, discovered during the Soviet Antarctic Expeditions of 1959/1964 and later confirmed by British scientists in the early 1970s. What makes this lake so special is that it has been covered in ice, untouched, for at least 15 million years. The intense pressure from the ice above creates an environment where organisms can thrive, grow, and live in the liquid water below. According to urban legend, Russian scientists were able to reach the liquid lake through ice core drilling in 2012, and what they found living in the water was so incredible, and so terrifying, that it was immediately sealed and kept secret from the public. Just what is Organism 46-B? Tune in to this episode to find out!

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Hoax of the Day: Organism 46-B

Description: On November 30th, 2016, a story “broke” that when the Russian Vostok Station research team drilled into an underground lake in Antarctica, they discovered a man-eating creature simply called Organism 46-B. It is widely believed to be a fabricated story, meant for entertainment.

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Organism 46-B

Organism 46-B was an enormous 33ft (10m) long, 14-tentacled squid-like creature which lived in Lake Vostok, a subglacial lake located under two miles of ice beneath Vostok Station in the Antarctic. The animal had limbs that were animate and aggressive even after amputation, could release a toxin into the water to immobilize its prey from a distance of up to 150 feet, displayed an astonishing degree of shapeshifting, and showed a considerable degree of both hostility and intelligence.

Vostok Station, established by the Soviets in 1957, was discovered to have been sited atop a vast body of liquid water beneath the ice in 1974, which was subsequently named Lake Vostok after the station. After 30 years of ice core drilling, the research team finally breached through to the lake on the 5th of February 2012. This must have occurred sometime between then and the 30th November 2016 (when the story first broke), although exact dates have so far proven impossible to track down.

Dr. Anton Padalka claims to have been part of the first scientific expedition to explore the lake. “We encountered Organism 46-B on our first day. It disabled our radio - which we later learned, to our alarm, was intentional. It is also able to paralyze prey from a distance of up to 150 feet by releasing its venom into the water. Tragically my colleague and lifelong friend was killed this way."

Later, while diving in the lake, the group was attacked, the creature releasing its venom which took hold of one of them. The Organism then proceeded to kill and eat him. As Padalka stated "He tread water wearing a blissful smile as the organism approached him. We watched helplessly as it used its arms to tear off its head then popped its remains in its mouth. It was as if it had hypnotized him telepathically.”

Still, later, 46-B stalked the group, displaying its shapeshifting ability. "It shaped itself into the form of a human diver. We thought it was one of my colleagues swimming towards us in scuba gear. By the time the closest scientist had realized what it was, it had grabbed him and torn him to bits.”

Escaping the creature, a member of the team managed to lop off one of 46-B's tentacles, although the severed limb attacked the group again. "Later that night it slid across the ice bank and strangled her," stated Padalka.

After finally trapping the creature in a tank, the surviving members of the team brought it to the surface where they claim Russian officials seized the beast and told the international press that nothing had been found.

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The Vostok squid's original designation was merely "Organism 46-B." This unofficial, sensational designation has been used for years as it was believed to be a hoax. The Vostok squid is an extremely rare 14-tentacled cephalopod discovered in Lake Vostok, a subglacial lake located under two miles of ice beneath the Russian research outpost Vostok (Восток) Station, in the southeast Antarctic, 1,301 kilometres (808 mi) from the Geographic South Pole, in the middle of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. When threatened or hunting, the squid will release a psychoactive hallucinogenic toxin into the water to incapacitate or immobilise prey from a distance of up to 46 meters (150 feet). Like other cephalopods indicates high intelligence and the ability to strategize— but also deep hostility.

It was rumored that the squid's tentacles were still animate (and aggressive) after being severed-this is the case with most cephalopods, as each tentacle contains enough neurons to allow them to respond to stimuli and move independently from the central brain, even after separation from the body.

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Organism 46-B

Organism 46-B was an enormous 33ft (10m) long, 14-tentacled squid-like creature which lived in Lake Vostok, a subglacial lake located under two miles of ice beneath Vostok Station in the Antarctic. The animal had limbs that were animate and aggressive even after amputation, could release a toxin into the water to immobilize its prey from a distance of up to 150 feet, displayed an astonishing degree of shapeshifting, and showed a considerable degree of both hostility and intelligence.

Vostok Station, established by the Soviets in 1957, was discovered to have been sited atop a vast body of liquid water beneath the ice in 1974, which was subsequently named Lake Vostok after the station. After 30 years of ice core drilling, the research team finally breached through to the lake on the 5th of February 2012. This must have occurred sometime between then and the 30th November 2016 (when the story first broke), although exact dates have so far proven impossible to track down.

Dr. Anton Padalka claims to have been part of the first scientific expedition to explore the lake. “We encountered Organism 46-B on our first day. It disabled our radio - which we later learned, to our alarm, was intentional. It is also able to paralyze prey from a distance of up to 150 feet by releasing its venom into the water. Tragically my colleague and lifelong friend was killed this way."

Later, while diving in the lake, the group was attacked, the creature releasing its venom which took hold of one of them. The Organism then proceeded to kill and eat him. As Padalka stated "He tread water wearing a blissful smile as the organism approached him. We watched helplessly as it used its arms to tear off its head then popped its remains in its mouth. It was as if it had hypnotized him telepathically.”

Still, later, 46-B stalked the group, displaying its shapeshifting ability. "It shaped itself into the form of a human diver. We thought it was one of my colleagues swimming towards us in scuba gear. By the time the closest scientist had realized what it was, it had grabbed him and torn him to bits.”

Escaping the creature, a member of the team managed to lop off one of 46-B's tentacles, although the severed limb attacked the group again. "Later that night it slid across the ice bank and strangled her," stated Padalka.

After finally trapping the creature in a tank, the surviving members of the team brought it to the surface where they claim Russian officials seized the beast and told the international press that nothing had been found.

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Organism 46-B is a cryptid purportedly discovered by a Russian research team in Lake Vostok, Antarctica. It is said to be a huge, squid-like creature, at least ten metres long with fourteen tentacles that moved even after amputation. It could also change its shape, and was said to be very aggressive and oddly intelligent.

The organism was discovered sometime between 2012, when the Russian researchers first breached the ice at Vostok Station, and 2016, when stories of the creature attacking the scientists emerged.

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New article has been published on The Daily Digest

New article has been published on http://www.thedailydigest.org/2017/07/14/intelligent-mind-controlling-squids-found-in-antarcticas-lake-vostok-revealed-by-russian-scientist/

Intelligent mind-controlling squids found in Antarctica's Lake Vostok revealed by Russian scientist

Russian scientists have made a new borehole into Lake Vostok, the prehistoric Antarctic water mass, which has been sealed for millions of years – three years after a previous mission was prematurely ended by an accident resulting in sample contamination.

He and his colleagues went missing for five days. Now a defecting Russian scientist had surfaced with a mind-bending account of what REALLY occurred when he and his colleagues went missing for five days in a mysterious lake 12,366 feet beneath the Antarctic ice.

Dr. Anton Padalka told authorities in Switzerland that the researchers discovered a bizarre and deadly life form dubbed Organism 46-B – a highly intelligent octopus-like creature that claimed the lives of three of the team members. Lake Vostok is the largest of Antarctica’s almost 400 known subglacial lakes.

Lake Vostok is located at the southern Pole of Cold, beneath Russia’s Vostok Station under the surface of the central East Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is at 3,488 m (11,444 ft) above mean sea level. The surface of this fresh water lake is approximately 4,000 m (13,100 ft) under the surface of the ice, which places it at approximately 500 m (1,600 ft) below sea level.

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Episode 109: Lake Vostok & Organism 46-B Photodump

Image 01: Organism 46-B, ya’ll!!! Image 02: Subglacial Lake Vostok lies 4000 meters below Vostok Station, in East Antarctica. (Image credit: U.S. Antarctic Program) Image 03: Map of Antarctica’s subglacial lakes and rivers Image 04: An artist's cross-section of Lake Vostok (Image credit: Nicolle Rager-Fuller / NSF, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) Image 05: Using a RADARSAT dataset of Antarctica, an abandoned Russian station on top of frozen Lake Vostok is visible. It is in the left section of the lake in this image. (Image credit: NASA) Image 06: A cross-section of Lake Vostok shows how ice accumulates above the lake, and a list of some of the different organisms discovered in the ice core. (Image credit: PLOS ONE) Image 07: A satellite Photo of Antarctica showing (red oval) the location of Lake Vostok (Image Credit: NASA-GISS) Image 08: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory’s best guess at Lake Vostok’s makeup Image 09: Artist’s imagining of Organism 46-B Image 10: A different illustration of what some scientists think the lake looks like - do you see how they all look different????? It’s because WE DON’T KNOW SO WHO IS TO SAY???

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Hoax of the Day: Organism 46-B

Description: On November 30th, 2016, a story “broke” that when the Russian Vostok Station research team drilled into an underground lake in Antartica, that they discovered a man-eating creature simply called Organism 46-B. It is widely believed to be a fabricated story, meant for entertainment.