The Ice Woman Cometh
There are four social scientists on vacation on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic. It is
summer time and they are fishing in a glacial river amid the bursting bird and insect life of
the short Arctic summer.
As the scientists walk up the river, they come across a glacier face... and when they look into
the clear blue ice, they see the face of a woman staring out at them. She has been perfectly
preserved in the ice for 10 000 years.
The scientists make camp on the edge of the ice and carefully thaw out the ancient woman.
At last her eyes blink. She is alive. She moves. She speaks. This is, of course, pure fantasy -
although ancient animals have indeed been found preserved in the ice of Siberia.
The point of our story is not whether or not such an event could really occur.
Each social scientist can ask one question - what would the question be?