Antarctic Glacier Has Five-story Blood-red Waterfall of Primordial Ooze

http://www.good.is/post/science-rules-antarctic-glacier-has-five-story-blood-red-waterfall-of-primodial-ooze ^ | Feb 24th, 2010

[TaraP]

There is a five-story, blood-red waterfall pouring slowly from the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valley. Its back story, at Atlas Obscura, is simply remarkable:

Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist without heat, light, or oxygen, and are essentially the definition of "primordial ooze." The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the waterfall its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within.

[sportutegrl]

You could end up with PSP, or worse.

Cool. I want a PSP-3000.

[I see my hands]

Not to mention there is no angel with a bowl.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Old news - Life Thrives Under Antarctic Glacier

[JimWayne]

We will see what they have to say

If you don't give money to Al Gore for doing scientific research about the liquid, it will eat away your home.

[Dead Corpse]

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks FrogMom!

Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed...

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[Eagle Eye]

http://thepowerhour.com/news4/obama_scar.htm

Rev 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

Just sayin’....

[Monkey Face]

Awesome!
Thanks!

[jackibutterfly]

NO WAY!!!! That picture is NOT real?!!!

[ApplegateRanch]

these microbes exist without heat, light, or oxygen

If it is a "lake", it darn sure has "heat"!

And lots of microbes; perhaps even the majority don't need light or oxygen, which are even deadly to them.

[crazydad]

It is like the movie the Thing with Kurt Russell, who knows what is in that oooze!

[ApplegateRanch]

Authorities are working to figure out what exactly was dumped and who dumped it.

Did it taste like raspberry Kool-Ade?

[eccentric]

STUFF are you eating it? Or is it eating you?

[Rastus]

I want to see liberals make the trek to the ooze. “Daddy? Is that you?”

[Rastus]

It looks like a Picasso.

[eccentric]

the THING !! quick call James Arness! Kurt Russell!

[mad_as_he$$]

LOL......Good one.

[null and void]

Not to mention there is no angel with a bowl.

That would be a bloody bowl movement.

Yuck.

[null and void]

I remember that movie!