Source:
/r/interestingasfuck /u/XyRow666
I honestly found this one googling around, but XyRow666 presented a far nicer collage than anywhere else I could find.
more info: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/blood-falls
Roughly two 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 in a place with no light or free oxygen and little heat, 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.
I’d like to see non-ferrous iron? lol
Hey, if i’m going to copy it from reddit, I’m a take 'da WHOLE MONTY
But then I put more info and links in the description, so i could have fixed it.
I shall submit myself to the wheel of shame.
You can leave it for the memes of course, but titles are editable on Lemmy if you didn’t know :)
adding insult to unjury, it was aparently posted there like 4 times in three years, all the others had less AI looking titles
Imagine coming across this back in the day before science was really a thing?
New God unlocked.
I know right, you walk up there, Antarctica, it’s pouring out of the ground, blood red, all iron-y and salty.
That’s some mountains of madness s*** going on right there.
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!
That’s just what They want you to believe. The government is just trying to cover up the truth about the eldritch gods waking up now that their frozen prison is melting. /s
Edit: I put the /s there just in case. You never know what people will take seriously.
Never hurts to stick in a good /s
That is, indeed, interesting as fuck.
Forbidden red slushie 🤤
My brain is so confused. Do I want a cherry slushie right now? Or do I not because its sourced from the stuff of nightmares?
There’s more detailed reports from recent studies done on the falls. Here’s a good video from Anton Petrov,…
I was gonna make a joke about the real cause being prolific polar bear activity then I realized they’re not in Antarctica and I would be corrected… On the internet. A fate worse than death.
It could still hold water it would just be really really really really really really prolific polar bear activity.
There is a river in Spain too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Tinto_(river)it’d be even more interesting to find out what it tastes like
Shit if Jewish people are righth about God. We all fucked, what number plage is this?
The Second Impact has started
Metal.
