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rhamphotheca: Blood Falls, a Natural Time Capsule Containing a Unique Ecosystem This five-story, blood-red “waterfall” pours ever so slowly out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valley. Geologists first discovered the frozen waterfall in 1911, and believed the red color came from algae. Its true nature turned out to be more spectacular. Roughly two million years ago, a small body of water containing an ancient community of microbes was sealed beneath the surface of the Taylor Glacier. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, the microbes have remained isolated inside a natural time capsule, in a place with no light, oxygen, or heat. The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the seepage its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the microbial subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within. More photos of Blood Falls can be seen on Atlas Obscura Can you imagine that this are super microbes that take over the ocean and completely change our ecosystem in the next 10 to 20 years? Like terraforming earth, the nature turns aggressive and animals start to evolve very quickly into very dangerous things. Human society has to stay inside the cities more and more. Until a Brave young boy has to rescue his sister from the savage humanoid creatures from outside the city borders. He embarks in a incredible adventure on a fantastic new earth and finds love and a new meaning for life. I would read that book or maybe watch the movie…
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rhamphotheca: Blood Falls, a Natural Time Capsule Containing a Unique Ecosystem This five-story, blood-red “waterfall” pours ever so slowly out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valley. Geologists first discovered the frozen waterfall in 1911, and believed the red color came from algae. Its true nature turned out to be more spectacular. Roughly two million years ago, a small body of water containing an ancient community of microbes was sealed beneath the surface of the Taylor Glacier. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, the microbes have remained isolated inside a natural time capsule, in a place with no light, oxygen, or heat. The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the seepage its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the microbial subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within. More photos of Blood Falls can be seen on Atlas Obscura Can you imagine that this are super microbes that take over the ocean and completely change our ecosystem in the next 10 to 20 years? Like terraforming earth, the nature turns aggressive and animals start to evolve very quickly into very dangerous things. Human society has to stay inside the cities more and more. Until a Brave young boy has to rescue his sister from the savage humanoid creatures from outside the city borders. He embarks in a incredible adventure on a fantastic new earth and finds love and a new meaning for life. I would read that book or maybe watch the movie…
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Blood Falls, a Natural Time Capsule Containing a Unique Ecosystem

This five-story, blood-red “waterfall” pours ever so slowly out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valley. Geologists first discovered the frozen waterfall in 1911, and believed the red color came from algae. Its true nature turned out to be more spectacular.

Roughly two million years ago, a small body of water containing an ancient community of microbes was sealed beneath the surface of the Taylor Glacier. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, the microbes have remained isolated inside a natural time capsule, in a place with no light, oxygen, or heat.

The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the seepage its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the microbial subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within.

More photos of Blood Falls can be seen on Atlas Obscura

Can you imagine that this are super microbes that take over the ocean and completely change our ecosystem in the next 10 to 20 years?
Like terraforming earth, the nature turns aggressive and animals start to evolve very quickly into very dangerous things.

Human society has to stay inside the cities more and more. Until a Brave young boy has to rescue his sister from the savage humanoid creatures from outside the city borders.

He embarks in a incredible adventure on a fantastic new earth and finds love and a new meaning for life.

I would read that book or maybe watch the movie…
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