Café

3 lectures today - all pretty interesting, with one taken by a scientist who has spent 9 months last winter on the Antarctic ice sheet looking to do topographical mapping of the land below the ice. This showed the true extent of Lake Ellsworth.

This lake is liquid water under 3km of ice - and has most likely been there for well over 100k years, and most likely many many more. The team is looking to drop a probe into it through clean hot-water drilling to test the water and sediment - which is expected to find life which will have existed separated from the rest of the world in darkness for millennia. This has large impacts on for life on other planets and moons, as well as a biological interest here on Earth.

Went to this café in the afternoon, was nice to wind down and people watch for a while. Thai chicken for dinner :)

video if you're interested from ITV news - the guy on the Skidoo was the lecturer (.wmv)