What is strange about the lakes of Keli Mutu?

Kelimutu is a small but well-known Indonesian Volcano in central Flores Island with three summit crater lakes. These lakes are startling in that they are of three different colours! The western lake, Tiwi Ata Mbupu, or Lake of Old People is blue while Tiwu Nua Muri Kooh Tai or the Lake of Young Men and Maidens is green and the Tiwu Ata Polo, or 'The Enchanted Lake', is red.

The people who live in the area believe that these lakes are the resting place of souls, of sinners, virgins and babies. What is even stranger is that the lakes have changed colour over the years. Some years back, they were black, maroon and blue, and in the 1960's, they were milky coffee brown, red brown, and blue! No one can explain the cause of such colour changes except to suppose that different minerals are dissolved in the waters of each lake at Kelimutu. Did you know that the word 'Kelimutu is a combination of words 'Keli' which means mountain and 'Mutu' which means boiling?

ಚಿತ್ರ-http://thepowerofindonesia.blogspot.com/2010/02/kelimutu-unique-lake-with-three.html
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S Chandra

I read an article on S Chandrashekhar and I got a glimpse of how big minds operate. Check this out when you get a chance:
http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/apr252000/generalia.pdf

Here is a very lengthy interview with him where he discusses his career in greater detail:
 http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4551_1.html


It surely is inspirational material!




PS: Srinidhi, you have disable comments for your posts. Try to enable comments. When you edit the post, click on "Post Options" link you see at the bottom left of edit window. This has an option to enable comments.


The comment I wanted to make is this: The fossils of tree trunks appear to be those that are neatly cut, like from a chain saw. How did that happen when this should be dating back from pre-human days?


I haven't had time to post of late. The following are coming up soon:
1. The universe may end up in a Big Crunch or a Big Freeze or a Big Rip. These are certain ideas that capture our imagination. 
2. Narasimhanna suggested that I draw pictures to depict visual proofs of such things as (a+b)^2=a^2+2ab+b^2 and Pythogoras theorem, etc. 

Amazing!

Garden Eels

Garden Eels are small eels that burrow into the of coral reefs. They moor themselves into trenches in the seabed, and get their name from the fact that they drift in the current like plants. They don't swim around at all, but stay in one place, filtering the water for fish eggs and small shell fish.

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Believe it or Not !

Wood to Stone - taken from Manorama's 'Tell me why'

Arizona's Petrified Forest is not a forest at all. It is a hauntingly beautiful landscape filled with magnificent specimens of petrified wood. Petrified wood is wood that has turned into stone. How did this happen? Millions of years ago, the forests covering Northern Arizona were buried under a sea of mud, sand, and volcanic ash, and the pressure over a period of time turned the wood into stone, to create a forest of stone trees!

Image - http://www.moore-fun.net/images/Petrified%20Forest.jpg

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Carnivorous plants

Venus fly trap, Pitcher plants (Nepanthes), Sun Dew plants (Drossera) are some of the carnivorous plants.

List of carnivorous plants available at -

http://www.pinguicula.org/pages/pages_principales/SEZNAM%202004.pdf

How these plants trap the prey and digest is available at -

http://www.ehow.com/list_5791411_carnivorous-plants-list.html

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