this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
185 points (98.4% liked)

interestingasfuck

6035 readers
244 users here now

interestingasfuck

founded 1 year ago
 

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.

top 20 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Imagine coming across this back in the day before science was really a thing?

New God unlocked.

[–] linearchaos 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'd like to see non-ferrous iron? lol

[–] linearchaos 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can leave it for the memes of course, but titles are editable on Lemmy if you didn't know :)

[–] linearchaos 1 points 1 year ago

adding insult to unjury, it was aparently posted there like 4 times in three years, all the others had less AI looking titles

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] linearchaos 1 points 1 year ago

Never hurts to stick in a good /s

[–] ScOULaris 5 points 1 year ago

That is, indeed, interesting as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Forbidden red slushie 🤤

[–] Bakachu 1 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] tallwookie 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it'd be even more interesting to find out what it tastes like

[–] Something_Complex 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Shit if Jewish people are righth about God. We all fucked, what number plage is this?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] EpsilonVonVehron 3 points 1 year ago

There’s more detailed reports from recent studies done on the falls. Here’s a good video from Anton Petrov,..

https://youtu.be/kPgdfPz235I

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The Second Impact has started

[–] Jackcooper 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] linearchaos 2 points 1 year ago

It could still hold water it would just be really really really really really really prolific polar bear activity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
load more comments
view more: next ›