# Lovecraft proven prescient **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-proven-prescient/603277 "2011-11-17T21:48:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-proven-prescient/603277/1 "2011-11-17T21:48:59Z")
[http://www.thestatecolumn.com/science/ghost-alips-revealed/](http://www.thestatecolumn.com/science/ghost-alips-revealed/) No mention of shoggoths or a city. Yet. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-proven-prescient/603277/2 "2011-11-17T22:13:46Z")
Cool. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-proven-prescient/603277/3 "2011-11-17T22:16:06Z")
Ia! Ia! Cthulhu ftaghn! Ia! Ia! Cthulhu ftaghn! ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-proven-prescient/603277/4 "2011-11-17T22:58:05Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > Ia! Ia! Cthulhu ftaghn! Ia! Ia! Cthulhu ftaghn! Nasty cough you have there. I recommend tearing your own face off. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-proven-prescient/603277/5 "2011-11-18T03:34:07Z")
The fools! They’ll _wake them_ with their drilling! ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-proven-prescient/603277/6 "2011-11-18T03:39:41Z")
Tekeli. Tekeli-li. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-proven-prescient/603277/7 "2011-11-18T04:00:42Z")
I haven’t seen the scientist names but if any are named Dyer or Danforth I’m leaving. And I hope they didn’t take any dogs with them. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-proven-prescient/603277/8 "2011-11-18T04:05:41Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > Ia! Ia! Cthulhu ftaghn! Ia! Ia! Cthulhu ftaghn! Ia! Ia! Shub-Tigger-rath! The Dalmation with 101 Young! ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-proven-prescient/603277/9 "2011-11-18T04:28:39Z")
[Here’s a better article.](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15749757) ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-proven-prescient/603277/10 "2011-11-18T04:58:43Z")
Brb, hiding under my bed, forever. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-proven-prescient/603277/11 "2011-11-18T05:12:20Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Ia! Ia! Shub-Tigger-rath! > > The Dalmation with 101 Young! Ia! Ia! Marmite ftaghn! Ia! Ia! Marmite ftaghn! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-proven-prescient/603277/12 "2011-11-18T05:16:10Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > Ia! Ia! Marmite ftaghn! Ia! Ia! Marmite ftaghn! This would definitely vindicate one of my deeply-held suspicions… ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-proven-prescient/603277/13 "2011-11-18T05:37:02Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Tekeli. Tekeli-li. You know, I never understood that bit. What DID he see? ---
**Author:** ![Clockwork\_Jackal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Clockwork\_Jackal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clockwork_Jackal)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-proven-prescient/603277/14 "2011-11-18T07:28:21Z")
"A proposal is likely to go to funding agencies soon to drill into the mountains to retrieve rock samples. These samples would confirm the model being put forward in the Nature publication. “The search also goes on for a suitable place in the range to drill for ancient ice.” Oh geez guys, I don’t think that’s such a good idea… ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-proven-prescient/603277/15 "2011-11-18T13:09:10Z")
Better idea than this one… [Geologists prepare to drill into ancient Antarctic lake](http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/antarctic-lake-ellsworth-drilling/) I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that movie. It didn’t end well… ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-proven-prescient/603277/16 "2011-11-18T13:19:22Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > Ia! Ia! Marmite ftaghn! Ia! Ia! Marmite ftaghn! Are you suggesting that [Edward De Bono](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_de_bono#Ideas) is an avatar of Nyarlathotep? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2011, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-proven-prescient/603277/17 "2011-11-18T13:43:13Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > You know, I never understood that bit. What DID he see? It’s from Edgar Allen Poe’s _The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym_. Have a look. Jules verne had written his own sequel to that Poe epic, _The Sphinx of the Ice Fields_.