Blood-like microbes spew out of Antarctic glacier

A lot more details here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Falls" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Falls</a>

You have to admire the balls of guys like Thomas Griffith Taylor, who discovered this place. I mean look at his picture on Wikipedia: the guy is walking around in Antarctica in less clothing then I normally wear in a Chicago winter. And no satellite phones or GPS to call for help either, if you get stuck or lost, game over. Wow!

It is such a pity that there is no adequate research budgets for extremophiles. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile</a> This reminded me of a friend of mine in South Africa who once showed me photos of living organisms that they collected from rocks almost 2km deep - that owed their existence to uranium. Does anyone have any co-ordinates for the glacier mentioned above?

I have to wonder what people would have thought about this during biblical times.

Why is this weird? It's iron-oxide and saltwater. Here's iron-oxide and freshwater: <a href="http://www.quikrete.com/ProductLines/CementColor.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.quikrete.com/ProductLines/CementColor.asp</a><p>The same used to be said about oil bubbling on the surface in California and Texas. And there's probably an asteroid of pure gold floating around somewhere too.<p>"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."<p>-- Douglas Adams (The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy)

If this red mixture is spewing out occasionally, and it's coming from the lake, how exactly is the bacteria colony in the lake "isolated for 1.5 million years"? It seems to me that there is potentially a path for flowing liquid connecting the lake to the front of the glacier. The alternative would be that the glacier occasionally picks up material from the top of the lake and slowly transports it as a separate mass to the front of the glacier where it gets released. Have radar studies of the glacier been done to determine its internal structure and the transport mechanism?