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Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by tnktosin(m): 1:55am On Oct 08, 2013 |
All naija politicians nid to take a dip in dis lake, just one dip not even seven. |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by SIRKOL(m): 2:53am On Oct 08, 2013 |
dr-pips: |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by Nobody: 3:57am On Oct 08, 2013 |
That's kinda cool |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by Richy4(m): 5:30am On Oct 08, 2013 |
jezzz it would have been cool if the animals are turned into Gold or diamond instead of ordinary stones. Tanzanians would have been the richest country in Africa. |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by CHYMAJA(f): 6:19am On Oct 08, 2013 |
Beautiful creation of God, for the service of humanity |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by Stormborn: 6:49am On Oct 08, 2013 |
Those people of aluu community who killed the uniport student should be taken to this lake to be turned into stone, and then brought back to nigeria so that the nigerian student can scatter them into dust. My opinion. |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by dasparrow: 6:59am On Oct 08, 2013 |
@Post This is quite amazing. Anyways, I think that all the bigots and racists in this world should be tossed into this lake and turned to stone. My humble opinion. |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by Nobody: 7:24am On Oct 08, 2013 |
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Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by Nobody: 7:43am On Oct 08, 2013 |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by drnoel: 7:59am On Oct 08, 2013 |
Wild crazy world. But then serious resorces for the tansanians if only they would invest they could be a world producer of lime stone. On anoda thought what does history say about this lake; like was it a reminant of a previous active valcano. |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by buskie13(m): 8:07am On Oct 08, 2013 |
PAGAN 9JA:if you insist,may God have mercy on you. |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by drnoel: 8:15am On Oct 08, 2013 |
Thursday, October 3rd 2013 at 1:02 pm Contrary to Popular Belief, Lake Natron Does Not Instantly Turn Birds To Stone Guys, it's a lake. It's not Medusa. Sometimes the media does this thing where it takes something incredibly fascinating and turns into a crappy game of telephone, and at the end everybody believes something completely fake. Case in point: after those gorgeous pictures of mummified Lake Natron birds made the rounds, now everybody thinks that the lake has supernatural gorgon-like powers. No one is disputing that Natron is a dangerous place for most species, of course. As the New Scientist says, the lake can reach temperatures up to 60 °C and has an alkalinity between pH 9 and pH 10.5, making it pretty dang gross on the best of days — it can even burn the skin and eyes of animals who aren’t adapted to it. It also does preserve many of these animals’ bodies, specifically due to the combination of chemicals that are deposited into the water via runoff from a nearby Great Rift Valley volcano, Ol Doinyo Lengai. Unfortunately, the nuances of this lake’s ecosystem seem to escape many a casual observer, and what people appear to be taking away from most coverage is this: that there’s a lake in Africa that kills literally every creature that comes near it (which is false), and that it’s capable of killing those creatures instantly by turning them to actual stone (which is also false). First of all, the preservation process is not something that happens instantaneously — it happens over a much longer period of time. Though the photos taken by Nick Brandt depict the petrified birds on perches and in naturalistic poses as if they were just petrified, they are all entirely staged. Brandt said as much in an e-mail to NBC news: ”I unexpectedly found the creatures — all manner of birds and bats — washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania[...] I took these creatures as I found them on the shoreline, and then placed them in ‘living’ positions, bringing them back to ‘life.’” Secondly, the birds are not “stone,” per se. The chemical process to which they were subjected is much closer to Egyptian mummifcation than anything else, and although the bodies appear chalky and stone-like in appearance, but they are not completely immovable. After all, if that were the case then Brandt would not have been able to reposition his birds into such surreal and breathtaking poses. Furthermore, there are species that are perfectly capable of living near lake Natron without facing inevitable doom — specifically, there are extremophile fish, bacterium, and a specific type of algae that thrives in the alkaline-rich waters. The lake is also one of the largest breeding ground for North Africa’s lesser flamingos (not to be confused with the greater flamingo, which has a different bill and is just a bit larger– you know, “greater”), who come to the lake to feed on the aforementioned algae. Yes, the occasional flamingo dies and is preserved, but as you can see from the featured image above, there are plenty more that come out just fine. But of course you wouldn’t know that by looking at, oh say, People Magazine, which calls Natron “a lake in Africa that turns all animals who come in contact with it to stone.” No, People! That’s not what’s happening! It’s so much more complicated than that! www.geekosystem.com/natron-birds/ |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by novaman: 8:29am On Oct 08, 2013 |
before you all jump into any kind of conclusion please read this; http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/03/lake-that-turns-animals-to-stone-not-so-deadly-as-photos-suggest/ |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by immortaliceberg(m): 8:29am On Oct 08, 2013 |
lildray: this does'nt look real, am sure those animals were carvedthey are trying brainwash us. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by ocelot2006(m): 8:33am On Oct 08, 2013 |
passionate88: Lake Medusa Damn!! The name also crossed my mind |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by kommiejewel(f): 8:35am On Oct 08, 2013 |
. . Jst came up wit a new death sentence. . Death by drownin in D Tanzanian lake. .8-) |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by elobyobi: 8:35am On Oct 08, 2013 |
Creepy shizz.....goosebumps |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by gentlelyfe(m): 8:37am On Oct 08, 2013 |
kai...if ds kind lake d 9ja...e for mek sense ooo |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by kommiejewel(f): 8:38am On Oct 08, 2013 |
[quote author=Richy.]jezzz it would have been cool if the animals are turned into Gold or diamond instead of ordinary stones. Tanzanians would have been the richest country in Africa.[/quote] . . Animals in Africa would hav been extinct by now and then we would hav been tossin human beings. .. |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by adebayogates(m): 8:46am On Oct 08, 2013 |
KELVIN-XY: haba, there'll be fish naw,just some stony ones |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by Natasha2(f): 8:49am On Oct 08, 2013 |
There's nothing more supernatural that nature |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by victorazy(m): 9:25am On Oct 08, 2013 |
River of Meduza. END TIME TINZ sha |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by viktuur(m): 12:36pm On Oct 08, 2013 |
Done Bossforeva: Any Man that kills his fellow human being is an animal. |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by benzzyno(m): 5:41pm On Oct 08, 2013 |
Bullocks..! |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by BizBooks(m): 6:58pm On Oct 08, 2013 |
emmyoha87: The photographer himself clearly said all the pictures were staged. That is not in doubt. See quote below attributed to the photographer. 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. |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by skyfall: 7:11pm On Oct 08, 2013 |
dolapobello1: Mr Geography Teacher thank you. You people just open your wide mouth anyhow without thinking. Many of the biblical stories could have happened in Eastern or Northern Africa. We'll never know the locations because distances were relative then and accurate info would have been lost in those stories. Tanzanians, Eritreans, Ethiopians and some Sudanese have pale skin and could have been part some of the characters in those stories. Open your closed mind and make inferences from what you read, Sule. |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by Jannyreen: 12:07am On Oct 09, 2013 |
kenedy175: some people need to be taken to that lakebros u dey there jareh...smiles 1 Like |
Re: Lethal Tanzanian Lake That Turns Animals To Stone by Nobody: 3:12pm On Oct 09, 2013 |
PAGAN 9JA:Sorry dude, blame the Mods, some of them do it too 2 Likes |
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