[PurseStrings]

Saw this, thought it was interesting. Can everything be explained away with science? Thoughts?

http://www.livescience.com/15346-texas-lake-blood-red.html

 

[Roger Wilco]

It has happened before, in Africa, and South America, that I know of, whereby an iron rich substance/gas/whatnot is released from the Earth into the lakebed, usually there is some kind of active drilling, or volcanism to trigger the event. The Iron interacts with the water and turns it red like rust. There is also the red-tide algae... There are many reasons why this may occur... For this lake, I'm guessing algae, or some iron rich sediments.


http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/the-red-lake-of-bolivia.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos

http://www.ulb.ac.be/sciences/cvl/aoba/Ambae1.html

When it is caused by Volcanism, there can also be an accompanying mass release of co2 that has choked masses of people to death as with lake Nyos... Some Scientists have suggested that this may have happend in Egypt in the Biblical stories of the plagues... The blood red waters, dead animals, mass migrations of insects, and the death of the 'first born.' As in Nyos, small children, insects, and livestock are the most susceptible, as they are the closest to the ground... I find the theory an elegant explanation...

 

[Stranger]

It has happened before, in Africa, and South America, that I know of, whereby an iron rich substance/gas/whatnot is released from the Earth into the lakebed, usually there is some kind of active drilling, or volcanism to trigger the event. The Iron interacts with the water and turns it red like rust. There is also the red-tide algae... There are many reasons why this may occur... For this lake, I'm guessing algae, or some iron rich sediments.


http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/the-red-lake-of-bolivia.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos

http://www.ulb.ac.be/sciences/cvl/aoba/Ambae1.html

When it is caused by Volcanism, there can also be an accompanying mass release of co2 that has choked masses of people to death as with lake Nyos... Some Scientists have suggested that this may have happend in Egypt in the Biblical stories of the plagues... The blood red waters, dead animals, mass migrations of insects, and the death of the 'first born.' As in Nyos, small children, insects, and livestock are the most susceptible, as they are the closest to the ground... I find the theory an elegant explanation...

I agree, also the fact the this lake is now also just a mud hole, and hardly has any water left. This is where these gases get trapped, most of the time you cant see them until the water reaches really low levels or there is some sort of quake or something to dislodge these gases.

 

[KCChimneyman]

Red Tide is caused by an algae, could be the same culprit

 

[Apocalypse Now]

OC Fisher, a reservoir in West Texas, turned blood-red in recent weeks — what's left of it anyway. Due to unrelenting drought in Texas, the lake has almost entirely dried up, leaving thousands of dead fish behind. As of the last week in July, when this photo was taken, bacteria had turned the stagnant dregs of the lake red.

Did no one read the caption under the photo?

 

[Apocalypse Now]

Looks like God is really mad at the south. Record tornados ,record floods, record droughts, grasshopper pestilence ,record wildfires....

 

[Stranger]

Looks like God is really mad at the south. Record tornados ,record floods, record droughts, grasshopper pestilence ,record wildfires....

God would sue for defamation of character but all the lawyers work from the devil.....

 

[POPPALUV]

REd tide. You wanna see a dead spot? Look at the mouth of the Miss in the Gulf! Thanks for the runoff mid America!!:thumb:

 

[Robphillips00]

I used to live about 5 miles from this "reservoir", it's never had much water in it since it was constructed. Although, that is a whole other story, a little army corps of engineer research will tell you way.
The lake is very small surface wise any way. There are at least two sets of ramps that I know of that are at different elevations.
The red is probably just a reaction of soil and bacteria as the caption says.

 

[Bavarian Raven]

Red Rain in India... happened in India - it rained blood red. lol. they still aren't sure what the cause actually was.

 

[Grumble69]

Red Rain in India... happened in India - it rained blood red. lol. they still aren't sure what the cause actually was.

That one was pretty interesting because some researchers thought it was extra-terrestrial. The cells were reproducing but supposedly no DNA was found in the cells. ...like something out of the Andromeda Strain.

 

[Straight Razor]

And the difference between now and 700 AD is we know it is fugus. In 700 AD, as in the History of the Franks, they argued it was real blood, for some sin they had committed et cetera et cetera et cetera.

 

[GeorgeDoubleya]

Did no one read the caption under the photo?

Probably not. People don't deal in "truth". They deal in "belief". They'd rather just say "Oh, look, god did this" then say "Oh wow, look at what the bacteria did. isn't that fascinating?"

 

[OleOkie]

Saw this, thought it was interesting. Can everything be explained away with science? Thoughts?

http://www.livescience.com/15346-texas-lake-blood-red.html

Strings,
On Grand Lake of the Cherokee's in NE Oklahoma we have had the Blue-Green Algae this year and we were prohibited from swimming. Hot and dry low water levels are the reasons. We can swim now it was over the 4th of July.

 

[Tenfeathers]

Looks like God is really mad at the south. Record tornados ,record floods, record droughts, grasshopper pestilence ,record wildfires....

We shall over come<GRIN>

 

[chuckbyf]

REd tide. You wanna see a dead spot? Look at the mouth of the Miss in the Gulf! Thanks for the runoff mid America!!:thumb:

Glad to be of service!:

 

[Texas Patriot]

Algae red bloom? TP