'I dunno what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is'

With the prequel to classic John Carpenter horror The Thing (1982) being released this week, also called The Thing (2011), I was slightly alarmed to read this story on BBC online;



The team plans to use a hot water drill to break through the ice to this underwater lake, one of many in Antarctica, to find what sort of life has been trapped and isolated from the outside world for thousands of years...

Great! They expect to find virus; that have never been encountered before. Have they not learned anything from movies? They could find some twisted alien. Or what if they find a frozen mega shark fighting a giant octopus and end up releasing that whole mess onto the world?!

When will people learn! Let's just hope they have Kurt Russell on stand-by...or Debbie Gibson for the latter.

Full story at BBC News