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.

  • @[email protected]
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    131 year ago

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

    New God unlocked.

    • @linearchaosOP
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      41 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.

    • @linearchaosOP
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      1 year ago

      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]
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        41 year ago

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

        • @linearchaosOP
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          11 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

  • Dharkstare
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    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.

  • @ScOULaris
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    51 year ago

    That is, indeed, interesting as fuck.

    • @Bakachu
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      111 months 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
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    41 year ago

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

    • @Something_Complex
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      1 year ago

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

  • @Jackcooper
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    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.

    • @linearchaosOP
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      21 year ago

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