Talk:Blood Falls

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The main photograph image of Blood Falls has been added on 16:44, 20 April 2009 (UTC) on the peer review page to be proposed as a candidate for Wikipedia:Featured Pictures. Picture peer review is a staging area for potential Wikipedia:Featured Picture Candidates (FPCs) and Wikipedia:Valued picture candidates (VPCs). See Wikipedia:Picture peer review/BloodFalls to give a comment or to support the proposal. Thanks — Shinkolobwe (talk) 19:01, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Source

Newly Discovered Iron-breathing Species Have Lived In Cold Isolation For Millions Of Years —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.81.126.123 (talk) 12:22, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bacteria, Archea, or some mixture?

I am wondering if the microbial ecology in the trapped water that is the source of the fall is composed of one, two, or possibly all three of the cellular Domains of life, the bacteria, the archea, and the eukaryotes? Since the source water was isolated recently, I presume that it originally included all three types, so I guess it can cast no light on the question of whether the archea or the bacteria are closer to the root of the Tree of life. With seventeen different microbes in the community, it could be quite complex. Wwheaton (talk) 23:39, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Was there any information on what types of bacteria were found? There was mention that the bacteria found are able to metabolize iron instead of sulfide, but there was no specific names. Is there any information about which microbes were found?Ahiggs1013 (talk) 21:51, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Trapping it?

So are people just gonna let all of this stuff gush out into the ocean, never to be seen again? 69.132.79.61 (talk) 22:15, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know why you're concerned, but you can relax. Lake Bonney is a saline lake with no outflow to the sea. --Avenue (talk) 01:23, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was a raised on captian planet, so presserving the envoerment and stuff is ingrained in my head. I was worried that this stuff would be lost, it's a view millions of yars back in history, such a valuble look needs to be perserved. 69.132.79.61 (talk)

Well, probably

"Unlike most Antarctic glaciers, the Taylor glacier is not frozen to the bedrock, probably,"

What? Seriously? How did this get snuck in? --Killheart (talk) 06:17, 22 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

New Source

A new article was recently published on these "Blood Falls." The article might have some information in it that could be beneficial to this Wiki page. It is published by the Washington Postand was written by Rachel Feltman on April 28th, 2015. The URL is: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/04/28/the-dry-valleys-of-antarctica-may-actually-have-subsurface-water-full-of-life/. Not sure if it will help, but I noticed it wasn't listed under the references section. Interesting topic. Cheers, Comatmebro ^{~Come at me~} 01:46, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

How Big

So how big are the falls? Stub Mandrel (talk) 10:41, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Came here to ask the same question - it's not clear from the picture how big the actual "falls" part is, but the introduction makes reference to a "tiny outlet". What's the actual size? Kenahoo (talk) 23:54, 22 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This source says 15 meter fall, 15 meter width. MartinezMD (talk) 00:48, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]