An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years.

silence7@slrpnk.net · 5 months ago

An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long) ice core from Antarctica that dates back 1.2 million years.

Miles O'Brien@startrek.website · 5 months ago

Hey, I’ve seen this one.

A prehistoric virus is gonna infect someone with coldness until a plucky US-Marshall-turned-sherrif saves the day with his science-mined friends and colleagues.

BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works · 5 months ago

Starring Kroger Sunderland and directed by Uwe (don’t call me Yuwee) Boll.

adarza · 5 months ago

the end of man may very well be embedded in one of those 2800 one-meter long popsicles.

StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

The bell end.

jagged_circle@feddit.nl · 5 months ago

Wut?

DandomRude@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

Make a Slushie?

jagged_circle@feddit.nl · edit-2 5 months ago

How do you pull out a 2.8 km core? Surely it gets cut into chunks on the way out?

Edit: yeah, they cut it into 1 meter lengths as it comes out. so this will be 280 pieces.

Each meter of ice can contain as many as 13,000 years of climate data, said Julien Westhoff, chief scientist