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.

[Reeses]

AGW is a religion, complete with crying statues. That photo is a fake but gullible people will fall for it and send in their money.

[Reeses]

[Reeses]

[mware]

Yes way, it is real. I will see if I can find the link.

It was in the online version of The Telegraph.

[Reeses]

Search on “crying glacier”. It’s a photoshop hoax but many people fell for it.

[mware]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/pictures-of-the-year/6867771/Pictures-of-the-year-2009-crop-circles-UFO-sightings-ghosts-and-unexplained-phenomena.html?image=13

[mware]

Here is the link to all the photos of the year according to the Telegraph.

Some really outstanding photos. Enjoy.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/pictures-of-the-year/

[SunkenCiv]

I’m considering carrying primordial ooze, maybe in my breast pocket, for nights on the town.

[fortunecookie]

Gaia's Aunt Flo is visiting.

I was thinking the same thing. I'll bet that Gaia would love some chocolate about now!...

[Defiant]

You could end up with PSP, or worse.

Sega Genesis? The horror!

[knarf]

"Mother Earth is bleeding!"

Terrific ... a fevered, bleeding ulcer.

[Monkey Face]

WHOA! Yah! Think of the fun. You can just throw it out there on the bar and get free drinks all night...bet they can’t guess what it is...
;o]
BWA-HA-Ha-ha-hahahahahaha!!!

[Monkey Face]

Her mascara is running.

[Rebelbase]

Chilled red-tide on the rocks.

[SunkenCiv]

Just updating the ping messages.

Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes.

Eltanin Impact non-ping.

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[newfreep]

My first thought was obamatollah would have EPA issue a cease and desist order and begin lawsuits against God.