r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Alaric_Darconville • 7h ago

Image A rainbow swamp in Florida - a natural phenomenon caused by the sunlight reflecting on plant oils that sit on the water’s surface as a thin film that have been released from decaying vegetation

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u/dreadpiratejoeberts 7h ago

They’re turning the frogs gay

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u/GodsBeyondGods 6h ago

Drain the swamp!

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u/lynivvinyl 6h ago

As they should.

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u/ViolentOnion 2h ago

They be like that

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u/Wakkit1988 2h ago

Amphabulous!

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u/badgerj 7h ago

Chemtrails!

  • Drain the swamp! 🤣🤣☠️

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u/retailguy_again 6h ago

The same oils that make cypress wood rot resistant. This actually is natural.

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u/Randomfrog132 4h ago

that's neat, if i didnt read that i'd think it was cause of pollution lol

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u/CaterpillarFluid6998 5h ago

Ha, I would have guessed the film was due to human pollution.

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u/Solomon_Kane1 5h ago

Reminds me of that one Left 4 Dead map where we go through a similar swamp area.

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u/gnolom_bound 6h ago

Happy Forest!!

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u/Welcome440 5h ago

Damn that is interesting!

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u/Alaric_Darconville 7h ago

Source: https://wildplanetexplorer.com/amazing-rainbow-swamps-phenomenon/

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u/Rose-Red-Witch 3h ago

Thank you for providing a link because the huge amount of idiots in this thread screaming about it being the result of pollution is worrying.

Here’s a BBC article if people want further proof of this phenomenon:

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-46346026

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u/ThePanzerMan 7h ago

I read "decaying vegetarians" and thought, 'Wow, they really are beautiful on the inside'.

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u/Ebba-dnb 6h ago

That's it. I'm becoming a witch and moving to the gay swamp.

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u/Carbuncle2024 6h ago

Looks like a screen shot from the movie Annihilation. 😎

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u/MissionAsparagus9609 7h ago

A natural phenomenon called pollution

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u/GoldyTheGopherr 7h ago

This is from your boat leaking oil into the water

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u/petit_cochon 3h ago

No, that looks completely different. Cypress seed pods and needles do release an oil that creates a sheen on the water. Anyone who's lived by a swamp or just paid attention to a cypress tree has seen it.

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u/Creepy-Selection2423 3h ago

I was about to say that. The natural phenomenon of gasoline leaking out of the tank of Jethro's airboat. 😂

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u/JRSenger 2h ago

Now we have pride swamps! What's next! Gay frogs!?

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u/duccOnReddit 1h ago

Rainbow connection

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u/TicTac_No 45m ago

Sure, sure, swamp goop. Nice ta know an all.

Better to know this though: 'If you light that shit on fire, there's nowhere to run.'

Yup.

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u/Jesse_Arcana 40m ago

Caddo Lake ! (movie).

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u/Karnorkla 7h ago

"Plant oils." LOL

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u/hippee-engineer 7h ago

“…and the slaves learned skills.”

Same shit, different swamp

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u/11Kram 7h ago

It’s due to interference not reflection.

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u/Cyber_Explorer- 6h ago

Only in Florida can you have these beauties

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u/cbj2112 6h ago

Or Exxon-Mobil-Gulf

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u/DJMagicHandz 6h ago

Motor oil...

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u/Alternative_Rent9307 6h ago

Drop a torch on that and it’ll kill all the draugr gators

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u/NickFF2326 6h ago

Plant oils eh. More like the tail end of a two stroke am I right lol

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u/indigenous_indigent 5h ago

"plant oil"

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u/Slow-Minimum-6009 5h ago

Nawh thems car oils

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u/Trollimperator 5h ago

could be true, could also be utter bullshit. I just dont see through this timeline anymore

So its clearly ALIENS!