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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

Posted on 03/06/2010 10:45:51 AM PST by 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.



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KEYWORDS: antarctic; antarctica; bloggersandpersonal; catastrophism; cryptobiology; eltanin; eltaninimpact; godsgravesglyphs; mcmurdodryvalley; taylorglacier
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To: stormer
You could end up with PSP, or worse.

Cool. I want a PSP-3000.

41 posted on 03/06/2010 12:14:35 PM PST by sportutegrl (VETO PROOF MAJORITY IN 2010)
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To: James C. Bennett
Not to mention there is no angel with a bowl.

42 posted on 03/06/2010 12:28:54 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: TaraP
Old news - Life Thrives Under Antarctic Glacier
43 posted on 03/06/2010 1:07:15 PM PST by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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To: TaraP
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.

44 posted on 03/06/2010 1:08:46 PM PST by JimWayne
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45 posted on 03/06/2010 1:16:35 PM PST by Dead Corpse (III, Oathkeeper)
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To: FrogMom; 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; ...
Thanks FrogMom!
Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed...
 
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46 posted on 03/06/2010 1:22:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Freedom is Priceless.)
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47 posted on 03/06/2010 1:22:57 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: TaraP

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’....


48 posted on 03/06/2010 1:37:34 PM PST by Eagle Eye (The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Awesome!
Thanks!


49 posted on 03/06/2010 1:56:31 PM PST by Monkey Face (I wear a yellow ribbon for my Army Hero grandson and the warrior goddess of the Coasties)
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To: mware

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


50 posted on 03/06/2010 2:15:28 PM PST by jackibutterfly
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To: TaraP
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.

51 posted on 03/06/2010 2:25:32 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (If God didn't want a One Worlder hanging from every tree, He wouldn't have created rope)
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To: TaraP

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


52 posted on 03/06/2010 2:27:02 PM PST by crazydad (What)
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To: TaraP
Authorities are working to figure out what exactly was dumped and who dumped it.

Did it taste like raspberry Kool-Ade?

53 posted on 03/06/2010 2:30:22 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (If God didn't want a One Worlder hanging from every tree, He wouldn't have created rope)
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To: Dead Corpse

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


54 posted on 03/06/2010 2:30:41 PM PST by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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To: Tax Government

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


55 posted on 03/06/2010 2:31:36 PM PST by Rastus
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To: mware

It looks like a Picasso.


56 posted on 03/06/2010 2:32:44 PM PST by Rastus
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To: blam

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


57 posted on 03/06/2010 2:33:14 PM PST by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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To: I see my hands

LOL......Good one.


58 posted on 03/06/2010 2:34:55 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (usff.com)
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To: I see my hands
Not to mention there is no angel with a bowl.

That would be a bloody bowl movement.

Yuck.

59 posted on 03/06/2010 2:36:31 PM PST by null and void (We are now in day 408 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: eccentric

I remember that movie!


60 posted on 03/06/2010 2:37:42 PM PST by null and void (We are now in day 408 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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