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There’s something off about Lake Retba…(8 Photos)

July 6, 2012 | In: Awesome, Nature, Travel, WTF

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: Located on the north Cap Vert peninsula of Senegal is a geological oddity. Depending on the time of day Lake Retba changes color from a light purple to a deep scarlet pink. The unusual coloring of the water is caused by harmless halophilic bacteria that thrive in the lake’s high-salinity environment. “The strawberry color is produced by salt-loving organism Dunaliella salina. They produce a red pigment that absorbs and uses the energy of sunlight to create more energy, turning the water pink,” said Michael Danson, an expert in bacteria from Britain’s Bath University.

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Uer

First

paulie

douche …. Bag …

Tom

I never understood why the person who is first ends up being a douche-bag. I think the people who call and reap on a person being first are those assholes who ride your ass on a highway with their hybrid, while sipping on a late, heading to an office where his co-workers hide because his breathe, and criticisim of everything are equally as bad.

So suck it, all you first haters.

tom

I think they need to get a life

Bill

I think chivers need to get a life

Paulie

Lets get one thing straight … No one in a hybrid rides anyone's ass … those are the fools that sit in the fast lane doing 65mph and don't have the courtesy to move over for people who are going faster (also douche bags) … now, since YOU have something like a Prius riding your ass on the highway, it says that you drive like a complete pussy …

additionally, if you sit there at your browser reloading the page so you can be the first one to comment with nothing more insightful that the word "first", then yes, you are a douche bag

Go Hoosiers

Fuck Firsters! The internets version of AIDS.

Gen-0

U mad Bro's?

Bill

paulie is a homo

Bill

p.s I LOVE homo's

sean

first guy: ahh the lake's turned pink we need an experts opinion, where should we go???
second guy: University of Bath
first guy:……….yeah…. that's not how it works….

Chet

What the hell are you talking about?

Gun_guy

Did you read the little blurb under the first pic?
"…said Michael Danson, an expert in bacteria from Britain’s Bath University."

Lobo

chivers fail at any humor that isn't just ripping it off/copying it from a movie/tv show/comedian or website.

Frank

I'm waiting for your joke. Make me laugh Lobo.

RDS

I fail to understand all the thumbs downs. This was a funny post! WTF???

whale hntr

'merica, enough said

http://facebook.com/cre8ivdzine Bryan_W

It pretty much looks like they're swimming in Pepto Bismol.

vaporware2000

it coats…it soothes…it relieves….
Nausea, Heartburn, Indigestion, Upset Stomach, Diarrhea
Tilt Boy

Rule 34

MattKL

Not bad, Nature.
Sceptic

Oh, a pink lake, how very interesting…
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Trav1121

Michael Danson is a liar! Unicorns DO exist! And those people are swimming in their mystical latrine…
2857

or maybe its pollution. africa.

Today is…

or maybe bacteria. racism.

That word…

or maybe africa. bacteria.

adonisallan

They turned it pink to show their support for Stop Bullying.

Go Hoosiers

Here's my question…are there really that many Bully's or just a lot more pussy kids? I am in my late 20's so this "Stop Bullying" thing isn't foreign to me, but damn…I am from a tiny town, and when I was a teenager, the general conscientious was still "man the fuck up" I am gonna have to lay some of this on the placating, "You're all winners" parents, the rest goes to the schools. SHIT, just broke my soapbox. I'm done now.

Paul

I hear ya!!! I think the younger generation does need to man the Fuck up! I myself am in my late 20's and in highschool if we had a problem we dealt with it ourselves. Kids these days have less respect than we did and are Fucking babies. Its time for them to stand up for themselves and not rely on other people. Its a tough world out there if they can't manage highschool well we're all lost.
MattyDeuce

See, placing blame on the schools is such an easy thing to do because people blame tachers for everything. We have to follow certain protocol when we hear ANYTHING or see ANYTHING relating to a kid getting bullied. The reality is that this generation is much softer, but that also jacked up the suicide rate because bullying is a very real thing going on in our society. Most of this happens outside of our 4 walls because kids know that police can become involved immediately as well. You want to blame schools with the (financial) state of education today by creating or at least placating these bullied kids is ridiculous. Unfair, misplaced blame on the schools, as per usual.

P*ssedoffhobo

Didn't realize they had tachers at a school…man, google didn't help me with this one.

Also, Kids seriously need to Man the F*ck up. Seriously, if people get treated like shit by others, it inspires them to go out and be better than all of them.

Professor Squeegee

Oh man why? Now hipsters will flock to Lake Retba in search for a unicorn of their own. Wait a minute.. that's pure genius!
Secret_Frog

#4 "Meh just jacking it in this here lake…"

Gen-0

Bwahaha
Snicklefritz

He's holding his dong

McSpall

Man, that lake must really hate breast cancer.
Knives Chau

I wonder what the world would be like if all colours got swopped around. Blue orange anyone?

Anyone

no.

TJ_Designs

now back to BET with "DAMN NATURE YOU SCARY!"

rando

hahahaha. THAT LITTLE RAT LOOKIN THING JUST GOT ATE

Go Hoosiers

You guys with the hipster comments are really onto something here. If we convince all those pussy fruits that there really are unicorns, we could set up a hologram in the center to lure them out and drown them all, only problem I foresee is that turds float…suggestions?

dedonkey

Shoot them.

Knockout_Ned

Courtney Love must've swam in here while on her period.

Knockout_Ned

I thought it was funny :/

Med

were you referring to the color that the makeup and period blood combined would form? I 'll give you a half a point i guess

Med

Ned, I usually enjoy your comments. either i missed this one pretty bad or you bombed this one pretty bad

Knockout_Ned

Guess I bombed that one. FML

melindu

it couldn't be courtney love, they said the water has a HARMLESS bacteria. that skank would have poisoned the water

Spas

yup, Bath University, Kitchen University, Living Room University… they exist i tell you!
arcelia

i wouldn't step not one foot in that nasty looking water.

Anotherwes

English…do you speak it?

arcelia

no

Optimus_prime

Looks delicious
REEBUS

africans have us all beat. They turned the lake pink to help fight breast cancer.
oneNonlyjuarez

#8 yup that's what they said about the lake that i'm stationed close too Lake Tanganyika….
Dirty_Dingus

Looks like the milk left in your bowl after you finish the Fruity Pebbles.

HOYVIN Glavin

…also, Dude, Fruity Pebbles is not the preferred nomenclature – Alternative Lifestyle Pebbles, please.

dragon2777

HAHAHAHAHAHA

levian

Or a lake full of that nasty strawberry nesquik stuff.. Yuck
http://thechive.com/ GernBlansten

You have Africans floating in your fruity pebbles?!?

Gurgle

Not floating…They can't swim.
MattyDeuce

That guy looks like more of a South African than an African African

lol

racist.

Brett

That's the slime from Ghostbusters 2!!!
DUBU2DEATH

deep scarlet pink aka pepto pink
http://decalsmb.com MacGuyver912

There is something off about lake Retba…off-red that is.

Shut-up that's funny…

Okay maybe not…

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