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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.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: antarctic; antarctica; bloggersandpersonal; catastrophism; cryptobiology; eltanin; eltaninimpact; godsgravesglyphs; mcmurdodryvalley; taylorglacier
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03/06/2010 10:45:51 AM PST
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TaraP
To: TaraP
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posted on
03/06/2010 10:47:28 AM PST
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TaraP
(He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
03/06/2010 10:47:45 AM PST
by
FrogMom
(No such thing as an honest democrat!)
To: TaraP
Isn’t primorial ooze classified as a pollutant?
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posted on
03/06/2010 10:48:54 AM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
To: TaraP
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03/06/2010 10:49:27 AM PST
by
mware
(F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
To: Quix; Star Traveler; All
Just some food for thought on the *Book of Revelation*
regarding this story.........
The Second Bowl
“The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing in the sea died.” (Revelation 16:3)
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03/06/2010 10:50:38 AM PST
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TaraP
(He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
To: TaraP
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posted on
03/06/2010 10:51:08 AM PST
by
LibWhacker
(America awake!)
To: Steely Tom
I believe so.....
We will see what they have to say, as they study this material going forward.
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03/06/2010 10:51:53 AM PST
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TaraP
(He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
To: TaraP
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Gaia's Aunt Flo is visiting.
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To: TaraP
It’s George Bush’s fault!
To: LibWhacker
"Nuke it now!" For sure! Alien invaders can take many forms.
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posted on
03/06/2010 10:57:03 AM PST
by
blam
To: blam
The RED OOZE...the blob from the depths....hugh and series....we all gona die...
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posted on
03/06/2010 11:00:38 AM PST
by
spokeshave
(They'll get my false teeth when they pry them from my sister's cold, dead mouth)
To: spokeshave
...cue the smoking man....
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posted on
03/06/2010 11:01:23 AM PST
by
spokeshave
(They'll get my false teeth when they pry them from my sister's cold, dead mouth)
To: TaraP
Has anything in the sea there died because of it, yet?
To: All
River runs red in Colombia http://www.ksdk.com/news/watercooler/story.aspx?storyid=186888&catid=71 MEDELLIN, Colombia (RTV) -- People in Medellin, Colombia woke up to what looked like a bad Biblical omen Tuesday. The Medellin River was running red through the middle of town. Local officials suspect it's either a prank or someone illegally dumped ink or dye in the river. The head of the city's biggest environmental organization said whatever turned the river red doesn't appear to be toxic. Authorities are working to figure out what exactly was dumped and who dumped it.
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03/06/2010 11:03:50 AM PST
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TaraP
(He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
To: James C. Bennett
I don’t think they know yet.
Will keep up on what they have to say about this..
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03/06/2010 11:05:12 AM PST
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TaraP
(He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
To: TaraP
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Mother Earth is bleeding!
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posted on
03/06/2010 11:07:39 AM PST
by
Touch Not the Cat
(You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory; it is better to perish than to live a slave)
To: mware
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posted on
03/06/2010 11:07:57 AM PST
by
Touch Not the Cat
(You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory; it is better to perish than to live a slave)
To: TaraP
Well, it must have entered the seas by now... LOL!
To: TaraP
It’s an interesting story. Calling the effluent primordial ooze is a stretch.
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03/06/2010 11:08:58 AM PST
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Tax Government
(Conservatives are blue, Democrats are red. Take back our color.)
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