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stepchildofthesun: a-kat-astrophe: sindri42: everybodylovescasserole: battlepope: bowieismyboyfriend: travelingteadaze: sighbroken: do you ever just stop and think wow what the fuck these things are real and they exist in the world like what this shit ain’t just a picture it is actually literally a thing somewhere Yeah this is in Yellowstone national park man. It’s good, you should go sometime. I’ve been here and it smells really bad but it look cool doe Fun fact about these pools: the bluer the color the hotter it is. The red rim is the coolest part and the blue is the hottest. (THIS DOES NOT MEAN YOU SHOULD TOUCH THE RED RIM IT IS STILL SCALDING HOT) Fun fact: if you touch the blue part it won’t even hurt. The skin of your hand will just come right off like a loose glove. The colors are produced by a form of bacteria so old and so alien to anything modern that it only survives at temperatures that kill any other known life. Yellowstone is really cool. The blue water at the very center of the spring can reach about 87.2 deg Celsius (189 deg F) which is too hot to sustain most life. The yellow ring just beyond the blue is around 73.8 deg C (165 deg F) and home to a kind of cyanobacteria called Synechococcus. The orange ring is about 65 deg C (149 deg F) and houses Synechococcus as well as another bacteria known as chloroflexi bacteria. The outermost and coolest ring is still around 55 deg C (131 deg F) and home to a great variety of organisms. The Science Behind Yellowstone’s Rainbow Hot Spring, smithsonianmag.com -- source link
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