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Anyone remember 2013 German horror movie Blutgletscher or Blood Glacier?Synopsis -Janek (Gerhard Liebmann) is a brilliant researcher that arrives in the Swiss Alps to investigate global warming. One day the group discovers a glacier covered in a strange red liquid that has odd effects on the surrounding wildlife. Janek's group grows excited as they realize that the liquid is transforming the local wildlife into strange new genetic hybrids, but Janek himself is more wary of the liquid and the potential dangers it poses. His caution is soon proven to be warranted, as the group begins to fall prey to the hybrids created by the liquid. A new group soon appears to investigate the new discovery, and Janek is horrified when he finds that a former girlfriend of his is among the newcomers.The movie,however went on to win several awards later for its brilliancy in plot.Well a similar siting was observed in Antarctica and the place is called "Blood Falls"!!Now, there is nothing to worry about here,since it is a beautiful natural and scientific phenomena.Here goes the explanation.Antarctica's Dry Valleys are the most arid places on Earth, but underneath their icy soils lies a vast and ancient network of salty, liquid water filled with life, a new study finds.The Dry Valleys are almost entirely ice-free, except for a few isolated glaciers. The only surface water is a handful of small lakes. Inside the canyons, the climate is extremely dry, cold and windy; researchers have stumbled upon mummified seals in these gorges that are thousands of years old.Yet there is life in this extreme landscape. For instance, bacteria living under Taylor Glacier stain its snout a deep blood red. The rust-colored brine, called Blood Falls, pours into Lake Bonney in the southernmost of the three largest Dry Valleys. The dramatic colors offer shocking relief to senses overwhelmed by the glaring white ice and dull brown rocks.Now, for the first time, scientists have traced the water underneath Taylor Glacier to learn more about the mysterious Blood Falls. In the process, the researchers discovered that briny water underlies much of Taylor Valley. The subsurface network connects the valley's scattered lakes, revealing that they're not as isolated as scientists once thought. The findings were published on April 28 in the journal Nature Communications."We've learned so much about the dry valleys in Antarctica just by looking at this curiosity," said lead study author Jill Mikucki, a microbiologist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. "Blood Falls is not just an anomaly, it's a portal to this subglacial world."Mikucki led an international research team that tested a newly developed airborne electromagnetic sensor in Taylor Valley. The flying contraption is a large, six-sided transmitter suspended beneath a helicopter. The instrument creates a magnetic field that picks up conductivity differences in the ground to a depth of about 1,000 feet (300 meters)."Salty water shone like a beacon," Mikucki said.The researchers found liquid water underneath the icy soil in Taylor Valley, stretching from the coast to at least 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) inland. The water is twice as salty as seawater, the scientists reported. There is also briny water underneath Taylor Glacier as far back as the instrument could detect, about 3 miles (5 km) up the glacier, the researchers said. Eventually, the ice was too thick for the magnetic field to penetrate."This study shows Blood Falls isn't just a weird little seep," Mikucki told Live Science. "It may be representative of a much larger hydrologic network."Water underneath Taylor Valley could have turned extremely salty in two ways: The brines could be due to freezing and evaporation of larger lakes that once filled the valley. Or, ocean water may have once flooded the canyons, leaving remnants behind as it retreated. The new findings will help researchers pin down the valley's aquatic history."I find it a very interesting and exciting study because the hydrology of the Dry Valleys has a complicated history and there's been very little data abut what's happening in the subsurface," said Dawn Sumner, a geobiologist at the University of California, Davis, who was not involved in the study.Scientists are also intrigued by the new results because the Dry Valleys are considered one of the closest analogs to Mars that are located on Earth. Similar briny groundwater could have formed on Mars when the planet transitioned from having liquid water to a dry environment, Sumner said.Finally, the findings may change views of Antarctica's coastal margins, Mikucki said. Now that scientists know Taylor Valley's groundwater seeps into the ocean, further research may reveal that coastal regions are important nutrient sources for Antarctica's iron-depleted seas, she said.So, I believe rather than being worried and horrified, this is yet another marvelous natural phenomena to witness and cherish.Sources :Wikipedia & livescience.com

(Submitted by Robert Blevins, co-author of Into The Blast - The True Story of D.B. Cooper.)I go along with Nick Nicholas on this question: The hijacker known as D.B. Cooper still remains, as History Channel once called it, ‘The Sixth-Biggest Unsolved Crime of the 20th Century.’ It’s the only unsolved hijacking in US history, although not the ONLY U.S. hijacking where someone got away with it. This distinction also goes to Catherine Kerkow, a woman from Coos Bay, Oregon who teamed up with Vietnam vet Willie Holder to hijack a Western Airlines 747 jumbo jet to Algiers in 1972.In the early 70s, the Algerian government was extremely friendly to hijackers who claimed they did what they did for political reasons. Hijacker George Wright, for example, never faced justice in America. Most hijackers who went to Algiers ended up in France, where the French government’s policy of supporting ‘radical chic’ was well-known. Most of these hijackers either walked away completely, or ended up with almost token prison sentences and were released.Willie Holder voluntarily returned to America on a promise he would not receive a particularly harsh sentence. He did a few years in prison and was released, where he lived out a relatively normal life in the San Diego/Los Angeles area. He died in 2010. But his former girlfriend Kerkow fled France, (probably to Switzerland first to obtain a new US passport under an assumed name) and then completely dropped off the map. She has never been found, and speaks fluent French. She and Holder’s story was detailed in an excellent book by Wired’s Brendan Koerner titled The Skies Belong to Us - Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking. The FBI still has a warrant out on her, but the chances she will ever be caught are next to nil.The case of D.B. Cooper is a bit different, however. Cooper’s identity was never discovered, although some people (like me) think we are finally on to him. One of the biggest developments in the last ten years has been linking Cooper to a guy from Bonney Lake, Washington named Kenny Peter Christiansen, and Christiansen’s lifelong friend (and alleged accomplice) Bernie Geestman.BELOW: Kenny Christiansen walking into his apartment, the Rainier View in Sumner, Washington a few days after the hijacking. The picture was stamped by the developer as ‘MAR 72,’ but the Christmas wreath on the door indicates it was actually snapped around Christmas of 1971. He is carrying items similar to the ones carried by Cooper during the hijacking. They are not the ACTUAL items used, but are props (more or less we believe) for a memento picture which was found after Christiansen’s death in 1994. Alarm bells about this picture, when we first saw it, went off right away. According to old rental records, Kenny lived alone. So who took the picture of him walking in through his own front door with a smirk? We think Bernie Geestman was the photographer.Christiansen died in 1994 of colon cancer, and his story is very complex. He has been featured in a couple of documentaries, one of which will be released this year titled The Mystery of D.B. Cooper by Minnow Films in London. He was also the subject of an hour-long episode of the History Channel show Brad Meltzer’s Decoded. His friend and alleged accomplice Bernie Geestman appeared on Decoded and told the cast that Kenny ‘could’ be the hijacker because Kenny looks so much like the FBI’s sketch of Cooper. What Geestman didn’t know was that several of his friends and family members had testified he was WITH Kenny the entire week the hijacking occurred in 1971.BELOW: Bernie Geestman on Decoded.Prior to filming, he tried lying to History Channel researcher Marisa Kagan and claiming he hardly knew Kenny and thought he was a dishwasher. Kagan sent him twenty photographs of the two men together spanning a period of fifteen years. Geestman then agreed to appear on the show. His sister, Dawn Androsko, gave damning testimony against Christiansen, and to an extent, her brother Bernie. But she refused to testify against her own brother on national television.It’s a complicated story with many angles, and just as many characters. Some armchair investigators of the Cooper case have come down hard on the idea of Christiansen as D.B. Cooper, to the point of banning anyone from Cooper-related websites who forwards Christiansen as a suspect. But it hasn’t stopped anyone from continuing to investigate both these men for the Cooper case. In fact, due to recent evidence, the case against Christiansen is as strong as ever, and the book about him, Into The Blast, was optioned recently for the first-ever dramatic feature film about the Cooper hijacking. This book was released in January 2011 to coincide with the Decoded show, and was followed in June 2015 by a complete report on Christiansen (using additional evidence discovered after the book was published) that was 54 pages long. The FBI had no official response to the report, but suddenly closed the case almost exactly a year later.BELOW: FBI agent John Jarvis, a fifteen-year veteran of the Bureau who worked out of Quantico in Behavioral Profiling.The two most recent pieces of evidence against Christiansen were senior FBI agent John Jarvis telling three friends, all with security clearances and civilian jobs with the U.S. government…that the FBI had actually closed the book on Cooper the month prior because they knew the identity of Cooper now, and that he was dead. Jarvis affirmed not once, but twice, that this person was Kenny Christiansen. (Jarvis wrongly assumed that since the three men he told this to worked for the government, and had clearances, that none of them would say anything. US Navy engineer Troy Bentz DID, and provided extensive details.)The other bit of evidence was Bernie Geestman’s niece coming forward and testifying that as a 13-year-old, she had seen Christiansen at her uncle’s house creating the phony bomb used in the hijacking just two weeks prior to the crime. She appeared on the to-be-released documentary by Minnow Films. She testified that the incident meant nothing to her until she and her four children first watched the Decoded show on Christiansen - and then came forward. ‘K.P,’ as she called Christiansen, had brushed her off and told her to leave when she asked what he was doing. Forty years later, when she saw ‘K.P’ and her ‘Uncle Bernie’ on national TV, she put it together she said. She also provided details regarding the bomb that until recently, were only known to the FBI. For example, she described the ‘dynamite sticks’ as being wrapped in red electrical tape, a detail recently discovered in a notebook owned by the Cowlitz County (WA) Sheriff. This information about the bomb was not discovered until after the niece revealed it. She gave even more details for Minnow Films.BELOW: A still shot from the Cowlitz County Sheriff’s original notebook from the initial search for the hijacker.BELOW: ‘The British Are Coming,’ a picture from the Quora space article showing some of the crew from the Minnow Films documentary during filming in Kent, WA in October 2018. What started out as an all-around look at the Cooper case soon focused mostly on Kenny Christiansen, Bernie Geestman, and members of Geestman’s family. Director is shown center, the woman next to him is the producer. One of the camera crew is on the left. (I’m not supposed to post their names publicly, since the film is still in post-production.)BELOW: Bernie Geestman’s niece Denise, her son Jordan, and Cooper investigator Robert Blevins just after the shoot for Minnow Films in Bonney Lake, Washington in October 2018.It’s a complicated story for sure. This writer’s role will soon be coming to an end with the upcoming feature film, but everyone involved believes the mystery is finally solved. How did Christiansen and Geestman pull it off without ever getting caught? How did they manage to fly below the radar for all those years? The answer is almost as complex as the story of these two men. To try and boil down the story into a single Quora answer is just as tough. However, a timeline on how they got away with the only unsolved hijacking in U.S. history is detailed HERE.On a side note, the biggest celebration ever done on the Cooper case (he has a LOT of fans worldwide) will be happening in Portland, Oregon in November of 2019. Speakers, short films, a Cooper Lookalike contest, (you can dress as Cooper, or one of the flight crew, or the stews), and other items are on the program. It is being sponsored by the V23 Brewery in Vancouver, WA and Mississippi Studios in Portland. It’s still early, but some information on this event is posted HERE at WordPress.It’s not all serious and grim in the Cooper case. When they found the ransom money at Tina Bar on the Columbia River, I later created a meme starring stewardess Tina Mucklow, who spent the most time alone with the hijacker of anyone on the flight crew.And once in a while, I do a cartoon or two about the whole thing.Outside resources:AB of Seattle’s ‘DB Cooper Info Page’.The Everything D.B. Cooper Space at Quora.D.B. Cooper at WordPress

Buckley is dying off! Due to inept, inbred city gov't, led by our corrupt.mayor, no.new businesses will.relocate within the city limits. And the majority, alright all except for Del's, of the businesses located within Buckley have that "You're not from around here (even though I've lived here for 18 years!), we're gonna treat you like an "outsider" attitude! Don't believe me? Then just swing by the oldest business, still operating, within the city limits...Chuck's Drug on Main Street. You be greeted with, at best, by being completely ignored and, at worse, with ooen hostility! And want to see a "real, old fashioned" pharmacy? Look no further! "Old fashioned" because they do not accept debit OR credit cards & unless they know AND like you, they will not accept a check. And since the ONLY bank is Columbia Bank on SR410, where the only ATM that is not located within a gas station or bar and thus does not require you to take a second mortgage or sign over your firstborn to be able to afford the ATM surcharge. Still not enough to discourage you from visiting let alone move to Buckley, let's talk about the police & fire departments! The city would be well advised to immediately discontinue offering these public safety services & contract with the Sheriff & East Pierce Fire! But that's not gonna happen anytime soon. The PD is so incompetent, the Chief, who has been in the position since 2002, was given the job after volunteering as an unpaid, reserve officer beginning in 1993, beginning his meteoric rise. The "grapevine" says that this rise through the ranks was due to the Mayor who appointed him had promised the Chief's father, on his deathbed, that he would promote him to the position of Chief of Police. The lead investigator/K-9 officer is a semi-literate with "short man" syndrome who has been caught submitting & filing fraudulent & dishonest reports. The Fire Department? An all-volunteer department whom enjoys a nearly new, multimillion dollar, 6-apparatus bay station/training facility, even though tge dept only has THREE vehicles and that includes the ambulance and Chief's SUV, which like EVERY police car, is replaced on an annual basis! Given my occupation as a professional firefighter with multiple decades of service, I wouldn't call the Buckley FD to change the batteries in a smoke detector. In the 18 years I have lived in Buckley, there has been a total of three structure fires and guess what? All three were a "total loss", my professional assessment is they burned to the damn foundation. Two of these three structures were within "spitting distance" of the fire station. So what do they do in '07-'08 when selecting a site for the new station? Yes! Let's relocate all the way on the outskirts of the city, in the opposite direction of where 96% of all of our calls for service are (within 5 blocks of Main or/on SR410?). Finally the schools, you ask? They're ran by the same people who have run Buckley into the ground-those same people & their spouses who are elected (by their "cousins") to city government & the ones who run the few remaining businesses within the city limits. The school board could and should have their meetings in the Mormon church parking lot on Sundays since a staggering 80% of the board attend that church. A minority of the teachers and virtually none of the administration are actually qualified to be associating with children, forget about teaching them. A prime example is the entire admin staff (the Principal & her staff of two secretaries) at Elk Ridge ES. Remember that old Carol Burnett skit about "Mama"? Yes, that's the admin staff at Elk Ridge! Out of concern & frustration, I "choiced" my children into Enumclaw schools & that's one of the best decisions I ever made!My advice? Keep on driving through Buckley & onto Enumclaw or Sumner (& yes I am ignoring the "Land of the Neverending Strip Mall", AKA Bonney Lake.