Science is beautiful, magic can eat me!
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Science is Beautiful: Grand Prismatic Spring
Every once in a while, you get someone claiming that science strips the world of it's beauty.
This is Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park. The rainbow effect around the edge is due to changing ratios of carotenoids to chlorophyll in the bacteria inhabiting the near boiling water, and the deep blue color is a product of water's selective absorption of red wavelengths of light, paired with the depth and purity of the water.
Science is beautiful, magic can eat me!
Science is beautiful, magic can eat me!
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That's a photoshopped picture of Morning Glory Pool, one mile from Old Faithful. Grand Prismatic is much, much larger in size and has a completely different shape. I know, I work there. Morning Glory is dying and has a faded bluish-green color in the middle and a dark green rim. Good science, though.
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