[url]http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929360.100-deadly-lake-turns-animals-into-statues.html#.UkyPjNKsgk3[/url]
[quote]Unless you are an alkaline tilapia (Alcolapia alcalica) – an extremophile fish adapted to the harsh conditions – it is not the best place to live. Temperatures in the lake can reach 60 °C, and its alkalinity is between pH 9 and pH 10.5.
The lake takes its name from natron, a naturally occurring compound made mainly of sodium carbonate, with a bit of baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) thrown in. Here, this has come from volcanic ash, accumulated from the Great Rift valley. Animals that become immersed in the water die and are calcified.[/quote]
[quote]"I unexpectedly found the creatures - all manner of birds and bats - washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania. No-one knows for certain exactly how they die, but it appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lake’s surface confuses them, and like birds crashing into plate glass windows, they crash into the lake. The water has an extremely high soda and salt content, so high that it would strip the ink off my Kodak film boxes within a few seconds. The soda and salt causes the creatures to calcify, perfectly preserved, as they dry.
I took these creatures as I found them on the shoreline, and then placed them in ‘living’ positions, bringing them back to ‘life’, as it were. Reanimated, alive again in death."[/quote]
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That's really interesting, and somewhat beautiful in a grim way.
That is not what lakes are supposed to do.
That's some gothic looking stuff, strange and neat.
Gorgeous and eerie.
[quote]I took these creatures as I found them on the shoreline, and then placed them in ‘living’ positions, bringing them back to ‘life’, as it were. Reanimated, alive again in death."[/quote]
the lake killed them until they died and so I breathed life into their death so as if they were alive amongst the living dead
I wonder if they are able to be moved and displayed anywhere or if movement might break them.
I'd like to see a normal photo of them without all the monochrome, I mean even the sky is completely grey/black/white in those photos.
It's like Medusa's lake
I imagine the actual location really looking that dark and grim. Eerie stuff.. Yet beautiful and artistic.
Isn't there an acid lake in South America that is basically all sulfuric acid? Additionally isn't there another lake in Africa that killed an entire village due to releasing massive clouds of CO or CO2?
[url=http://www.isciencetimes.com/articles/6152/20131001/tanzania-lake-natron-animal-statues-africa-flamingo.htm]Sort of a fascinating place, I guess[/url].
They don't know why they are dying but birds and bats (as pictured), have been washing up for a while. The lake has an extreme salt-content and experiences dry low periods and wet high periods. So during low periods islands of 'salt' will form and be used by birds to perch. It's assumed because the lake has an unusually high reflectivity birds will sometimes misinterpret the reflection and (in my words) kamikaze the the shallow surface. Whereby their bodies will calcify over time and occasionally wash up onto shore.
Sort of like the bird and glass pane windows. It's thought they sometimes misinterpret (or just don't see) the reflection of the sky as actual sky and make a bad decision to trust that idea.
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[QUOTE=Dysgalt;42384359]Isn't there an acid lake in South America that is basically all sulfuric acid? Additionally isn't there another lake in Africa that killed an entire village due to releasing massive clouds of CO or CO2?[/QUOTE]
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos]Lake Nyos[/url], 1986.
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Now that i read into it more a little, that's some weird stuff right there. The residents were literally suffocated as the CO2 (up to 1.6 million tons) rose up and over the lake area into the valleys surrounding and [u]ushed the air out of the area[/u]. Holy crap.
And a survivors account:
[quote]"...I was surprised to see that my trousers were red, had some stains like honey. I saw some . . . starchy mess on my body. My arms had some wounds . . . I didn't really know how I got these wounds . . [/quote]
What the hell?
[QUOTE=Tomthetechy;42384208]I wonder if they are able to be moved and displayed anywhere or if movement might break them.[/QUOTE]
[quote]I took these creatures as I found them on the shoreline, and then placed them in ‘living’ positions [/quote]
They've already been moved in those photos.
[QUOTE=daijitsu;42384158]the lake killed them until they died and so I breathed life into their death so as if they were alive amongst the living dead[/QUOTE]
That reads like an Alpha Centauri technology quote.
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Holy shit water what are you doing.
So that's what happened to Seymour!
better get some purging stones because that CURSE ain't going away on it's own
Didn't expect this to end up in SH. Saw it earlier today and was fascinated by the way the corpses were calcified like that. Something out of a gothic novel or something Tim Burton would make.
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Holy shit water what are you doing.[/QUOTE]
Preparing.
Sounds like good SCP material.
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Holy shit water what are you doing.[/QUOTE]
*Wat-er you doing
This is seriously the most metal fucking thing I have ever heard of.
This is really neat.
That's pretty damn metal
I tried, god damn I'm bad at this.
That's some hardcore shit.
What if you swam in it? :pwn:
[QUOTE=Chinook249;42386770]What if you swam in it? :pwn:[/QUOTE]
You'd need to have some major stones to do that
did they died
Imagine turning your pet to stone after death as a memorial.
God [B]DAMN[/B] it, Medusa!
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