Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/11/27/rainbow-swamp-caused-by-na.html
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AFAIR this is usually a result of the bacteria themselves, not oil they release. Has to do with their size in relation to the refractive index of water. Oil plays a role in a wider sense ( membranes build from a lipid double layer).
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Enhance.
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We all came out to Montreux…
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I hope everyone goes there for the perfect Instagram picture and then ruin it.
THAT’S WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO BELIEVE.
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Obviously, this is where the unicorn poop accumulates.
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I wonder how the mosquitos are in that area. Oil on swampland used to be a way to suffocate mosquito larva.
There might be gaytors in that particular swamp.
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Wouldn’t spilled petroleum/crude also be a natural oil though?
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Nature’s pollution.
O M G! What are they putting in the water?!?! I bet it’s dihydrogen monoxide!
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Oh wow! So this is what I took a picture of a couple of years ago in Italy. And there I thought it was some kind of a human-made oil spill.
(Later I spun it off into a bit on Annihilation’s shimmer. Sorry for plugging & Hi everybody, longtime-firstime reader-lurker here.)
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Welcome to the bbs!..errr…Welcome to posting on the bbs! 
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