Lake Baikal - UFOs Neutrinos & CirclesExhibit One(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/49ufo_files/04images/Russian/15347889.jpg)
Lake Baikal, RussiaLake Baikal is a very strange place. It is a very deep lake, one could almost say bottomless
It is the home of many unexplained incidents
Lets start with a few..
Lake Baikal: Russia Reveals UFO Encounters(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/49ufo_files/04images/Russian/ufo3.jpg)
by Jordan Yerman |July 28, 2009 at 07:43 am
QuoteLake Baikal, the world's deepest lake, was the site of several UFO encounters, according to the Russian navy.
Declassified records going back a generation reveal several encounters with what are described as UFOs. Only a year ago were scientists were able to reach the bottom of Lake Baikal, located near the border with Mongolia.
In one case in 1982, military divers training at the lake said they spotted a group of humanoid creatures dressed in silver suits at a depth of 50 metres.
They tried to catch the visitors but three of the seven men died in the process, while four others were severely injured in the incident, according to the records.
Source: news.sky.com (http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/UFO-Files-Russian-Navy-Declassifies-Documents-On-Unidentified-Objects-Which-Show-They-Like-Water/Article/200907415347861?)QuoteThe records describe enounters not only with humanoid figures beneath the water, but also unidentified vehicles moving too quickly to be naval vessels.
Vladimir Azhazha, former navy officer and a famous Russian UFO researcher, says the materials are of great value.
"Fifty percent of UFO encounters are connected with oceans. Fifteen more – with lakes. So UFOs tend to stick to the water," he said.
Source: Lake Baikal: Russia Reveals 'UFO Encounters' (http://www.nowpublic.com/strange/lake-baikal-russia-reveals-ufo-encounters)
Original Source: Russian Navy UFO records say aliens love oceans (http://rt.com/Top_News/2009-07-21/russian-navy-ufo-records-say-aliens-love-oceans.html)
More Info: UFOs 'Prefer Water' For Close Encounters (http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/UFO-Files-Russian-Navy-Declassifies-Documents-On-Unidentified-Objects-Which-Show-They-Like-Water/Article/200907415347861?)
Putin's visit to Lake Baikal in Siberia UFO: Italian (http://forum.panorama.it/f15/putin-visita-gli-ufo-del-lago-baikal-in-siberia-t14262/)
English (http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=it&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.panorama.it%2Ff15%2Fputin-visita-gli-ufo-del-lago-baikal-in-siberia-t14262%2F&act=url)
Putin is immersed in the Baikal looking for gas crystals
Italian (http://it.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idITMIE57004420090801)
English (http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=it&tl=en&u=http://it.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idITMIE57004420090801&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhgnNeusZy6nuh23QS9OhPUTzxAenQ)
Russian PM Putin dives to bottom of Lake Baikal (http://en.rian.ru/russia/20090801/155697205.html)
Exhibit Two(http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/04images/Bases/bai1.jpg)
Lake Baikal is also home to the Baikal Neutrino Telescope
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QuoteThe underwater neutrino telescope NT-200 is located in the Siberian lake Baikal at a depth of approximately 1 km. Deployment and maintenance of the Baikal detector is carried out during the winter months, when the lake is covered with a thick ice sheet. From the ice surface, the optical sensors can easily be lowered into the water underneath. Once deployed, the optical sensors take data over the whole year and the data taken are permanently transmitted to the shore over electrical cables.
BAIKAL
The Baikal Neutrino Telescope
Lake Baikal, Russia (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/03files/BAIKAL_Lake_Baikal_Project_Russia.htm)
DESY Zeuthen Home Page (http://nuastro-zeuthen.desy.de/)
Exhibit ThreeDeep in the heart of Siberia lies one of the world's largest lakes and one of its seven underwater wonders.
QuoteThis is Lake Baikal whose crystalline waters contain a whole strange eco-system, where gigantic amphipods live in a forest of green sponges, and where a Russian live-aboard now offers an adventure of a lifetime.
SOURCE: Now dead link (http://www.xray-mag.com/en/content/tea-nitrox-and-vodka-diving-lake-baikal)Lake Baikal has it's own Monster stories, but not much detail available that I have found yet
QuoteLocated in Southern Siberia, Russia, Lake Baikal, with a maximum depth of over 5,300 feet and an age of roughly 25 to 30 million years, is the deepest and one of the oldest lakes in the world. Lake Baikal is the world's largest lake by volume and holds 20% of the world's fresh surface water as well as reports of a mysterious Lake Monster. The Lake Baikal Monster is described by some as being a sturgeon like creature while others have likened it to a giant Pinniped, or large marine mammal.
Lake Baikal Monster (http://www.unknownexplorers.com/lakebaikalmonster.php)
BAIKAL LAKE MONSTER: (RUSSIA) (http://americanmonsters.com/site/2010/01/baikal-lake-monster-russia/)BAIKAL LAKE MONSTERQuoteLocated in Siberia near the Mongolian border, Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater body of water in the world. With a reported depth of well over 4,911-feet, this colossal lake is credited with holding over twenty percent of the planet's fresh water, and harboring more endemic species of flora and fauna than any other lake on the face of the Earth. Surrounded by steep mountains and dense forests, this remote area seems perfectly suited to harbor a mystery of immense proportions... and indeed it does.
BAIKAL LAKE MONSTER (http://forum.paranormalborder.com/topic/7515192/1/)
Journey To The Bottom Of Lake Baikal (http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/baikal-08/)
Das Monster vom Baikal - The monster of Baikal - Source of the pollution" (http://www.flickr.com/photos/redstarpictures/2784751243/)
Exhibit FourCircles in Thin Ice, Lake Baikal, Russia NASA captures odd Circles in Thin Ice, Lake Baikal, Russia
Posted May 25, 2009
QuoteLate in April 2009, astronauts aboard the International Space Station observed a strange circular area of thinned ice in the southern end of Lake Baikal in southern Siberia. Siberia is remote and cold; ice cover can persist into June. The upper image, a detailed astronaut photograph, shows a circle of thin ice (dark in color, with a diameter of about 4.4 kilometers); this is the focal point for ice break up in the very southern end of the lake. A sequence of MODIS images indicates that the feature was first visible on April 5, 2009.
Baikal contained another, very similar circle near the center of the lake above a submarine ridge that bisects the lake (ice circles are indicated by arrows in the lower MODIS image from April 20). Both circles are visible through April 20, 2009. Clouds cover the center of the lake until April 24, at which point the circular patch of thin ice was becoming a hole of open water. Similar circular ice patterns—although not nearly as distinct—have been documented in the same central area of the lake in April 1994 (during the STS-59 Shuttle mission) and in 1985 (during the STS-51B Shuttle mission).
While the origin of the circles is unknown, the peculiar pattern suggests convection (upwelling) in the lake's water column. Ice cover changes rapidly at this time of year. Within a day, the ice can melt almost completely and freeze again overnight. Throughout April, the circles are persistent: they appear when ice cover forms, and then disappear as ice melts. The pattern and appearance suggest that the ice is quite thin. The features were last observed in MODIS images on April 27, 2009.
What can cause convection, bringing warmer waters to the surface? Hydrothermal activity and high heat flow have been observed in other parts of the lake, but the location of this circle near the southern tip, over relatively deep water, is puzzling.
Lake Baikal is unique in many regards. It is the largest (by volume) and deepest (1,637 meters at the deepest point) fresh water lake on Earth. It is also one of the world's oldest lakes (25-30 million years old); sediment deposited on the bottom is up to 7 kilometers deep. The lake's long, thin, and deep shape results from its location in the Baikal Rift Valley.
As a United Nations World Heritage Site, Lake Baikal is considered one of Russia's environmental jewels. It is home to an amazing array of plants and animals, many of them unique to the ecosystem. The lake's biodiversity includes fresh water seals and several species of fish that are not found elsewhere on Earth.
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MODIS Courtesy NASA
download large MODIS image (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/38000/38721/irkutsk_tmo_2009110_lrg.jpg) (2 MB, JPEG) acquired April 20, 2009 (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/49ufo_files/04images/Russian/ISS019-E-010556.jpg)
ISS Courtesy NASA
download large ISS image (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/38000/38721/ISS019-E-010556_lrg.jpg) (376 KB, JPEG) acquired April 25, 2009 (http://www.thelivingmoon.com/49ufo_files/04images/Russian/Baikal_circle_02.png)
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SOURCE: NASA EARTH OBSERVATORY (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=38721&eoa-iotd)
QuoteOriginally posted by annella
The 'dark spot' discovered in Lake Baikal is explained here....assuming it is the one depicted in the photos by OP'er?
;D I can't believe you just 'debunked' those circles using 'swamp gas' :o
But experts say they can explain the mystery, and it's not aliens — methane gas rising from the lake floor represents the likely culprit.
Mystery of Giant Ice Circles Resolved (http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090601-ice-circles.html)"Experts" say swamp gas... now where have I heard THAT before? ::)
But thanks for the links... just one more oddity of that place
QuoteThe Russian Academy of Sciences, the Moscow Institute of Oceanology and the Irkutsk Institute of Geochemistry and what they found was not the usual natural seepage but rather a 1500-feet-high fuel spray, consisting of gas, oil and bottom water.
The Mystery of Lake Baikal's Oil Leak (http://www.science20.com/hank/the_mystery_of_lake_baikals_oil_leak)Odd indeed
well after Z's usual long bunch of stuff...really Z your filing system must be bursting at the seams..wow
anywho ..i need to know more about this lake..
here are some of the things i found and wow to it also
en~joy
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https://ferrebeekeeper.wordpress.com/tag/lake-baikal/
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Lake Baikal in Siberia has a surface area of 12,248 sq miles (approximately equal to Belgium). For a better comparison, Lake Superior has a surface area of 31,700 square miles. However that comparison is in no way apt. Lake Baikal is prodigiously deep. It lies on one of the world's great rift valleys. To its west lies the Eurasian plate and to its east is the Amur plate. The two plates are springing away from each other at 4 millimeters per year. In the void between lies Lake Baikal, which is an astonishing 5,380 feet deep. The 5,700 cubic miles of water contained by the lake compromises twenty percent of the world's fresh water (not counting ice or water vapor). It could easily hold all of the water from all of the Great Lakes. Not only is the lake deep, it is ancient. Lake Baikal is more than twenty-five million years old, and may be one of the world's oldest lakes.
Lake Baikal contains thousands of species of plants and animals, most of which live no where else on earth. There is a freshwater seal, the nerpa, which lives on golomyanka, a translucent abyssal fish famous for decomposing almost instantly to fat and bones when exposed to the sun. There are omuls, lovely small salmonids, caught and smoked by humans around the lake, and there are huge Baikal sturgeons. The lake is ringed by forested mountains which host brown bear, lynx, wolves, foxes, and wolverines (and maybe the occasional Siberian tiger). These predators live on mountain goats, reindeer, white tailed deer, elk, moose, musk deer, Siberian roe, and wild boar. The small mammals and birds are too numerous to name.
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An amphipod regards a diver from a sponge forest in Lake Baikal
The lake's true oddities are invertebrates which live in the depths. Far beneath the surface, forests of Lubomirskia sponges attain towering heights as they branch into strange shapes. Benthic and pelagic infusoria are endemic, as are huge predatory swimming flatworms which are covered with suckers. Shrimp and crustaceans abound. It has been estimated that the biomass of crustaceans in the lake exceeds 1,800,000 tons. Turbellarian worms, snails and amphipods are also diverse.
The Lake is the alleged site of one of the world's greatest haunted treasures. Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak, was a tsarist hero who won the golden saber for valor at the battle of Port Arthur. After the Tsar and his family were executed by Bolsheviks, Kolchak assumed command of the imperial armies during the disastrous civil war. A substantial detachment of his troops rescued the Empire's gold reserves (an estimated 1600 tons of gold) and were carrying them across Siberia during the brutal winter of 1919/1920 when temperatures dropped below -60 °F. Legend has it that both the gold and the troops found their way into Lake Baikal and have never emerged
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http://www.treklens.com/gallery/photo326312.htm
Fishing boats at Lake Baikal
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really cool account here..go to the link
Excerpted from The Edge of Physics by Anil Ananthaswamy, copyright © 2010. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co. All rights reserved.
Physics & Math / Subatomic Particles Ice Fishing For Neutrinos From the Middle of the Galaxy
An intrepid reporter braves Siberia's frozen Lake Baikal in search of the fundamental particles that could answer some of the deepest questions in physics.
by Anil Ananthaswamy
From the March 2010 issue; published online June 29, 2010
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/mar/15-ice-fishing-for-neutrinos-from-middle-of-galaxy
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and even here they are dealing with 'global warming'..or a nasty 'progress'
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26139038/ns/world_news-world_environment/t/two-women-fight-save-worlds-biggest-lake/
Two women fight to save world's biggest lake
Russia's Baikal is seeing more stress — from warming to development
BOLSHIYE KOTY, Russia — The world's oldest, deepest and biggest freshwater lake is growing warmer, dirtier and more crowded.
Lyubov Izmestieva is charting these insidious changes. Marina Rikhvanova is fighting them. And the fate of one of the world's rarest ecosystems, a turquoise jewel set in the vast Siberian taiga, hangs in the balance.
For centuries Lake Baikal has inspired wonder and, more recently, impassioned defenders. With more fresh water than the Great Lakes combined, and home to 1,500 species of plants and animals found nowhere else in the world, Baikal has been called Sacred Sea, Pearl of Siberia, Galapagos of Russia.
But these pristine waters, a mile deep in some places, are threatened by polluting factories, a uranium enrichment facility, timber harvesting, and, increasingly, Earth's warming climate. The struggle has turned nasty, with Rikhvanova, an environmental activist, claiming the authorities even dragooned her own son into a violent attack on her group.
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It's a sprawling outdoor laboratory of biological diversity comparable to the rich fauna of the Galapagos Islands. Geologists come to study the formation of the Asian continent. Biologists probe such mysteries as how a lake 1,000 miles inland became home to the world's only true species of freshwater seals.
Last month two small, manned submarines reached the bottom of the lake with scientists on board to take soil and water samples. The 5,223-foot dive fell just short of setting a world record.
Baikal inspired the Soviet Union's environmental movement in the 1960s, after Izmestieva's grandfather and other scientists spoke out against Nikita Khrushchev's plans to build a pulp and paper factory on its shores.
Dead zone frmo paper mill
Today Marina Rikhvanova, who helped found the nonprofit group Baikal Ecological Wave, is still fighting to close the mill, which has created a dead zone miles wide in the lake and may be contaminating the seals.
..A few years back her group led protests against a 2,700-mile oil pipeline, part of which would run along the lake's northern shores. The group's books were audited by authorities, its computers seized and its phones tapped — retaliation, she says, for fighting the pipeline.
This is how I see it
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