[spacebandit]

http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...642905,00.html

Doesn't take a brainiac to work out which way thats going to go.

A north pole covered in oil drilling platforms and pipelines.

Still, claiming it and managing to carry it through are two different things - could get very serious very quickly

So, the Russians claimed a great scientific discovery late last month. An expedition of 50 scientists that spent 45 days aboard the Rossia nuclear ice-breaker found that an underwater ridge (the Lomonosov ridge) directly links Russia's Arctic coast to the North Pole. This, they insist, surely guarantees Russia's rights over a vast Polar territory that also happens to contain some 10 billion tons of oil and natural gas deposits.