<br> Here's one reference: <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070726142026.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070726142026.htm</a>. They name Octopus Pool, Mushroom Pool, and Green Finger Spring as the known sources of the organism.
<br><br> I'm kind of confused why the mainstream media is at all interested in this. Life forms that convert light to chemical energy are pretty common. Most of them are called "plants." Some are also protozoa or bacteria. As far as I can tell, this discovery is of interest because it's a member of a class of bacteria previously unknown to photosynthesize, which should be of great interest to the niche group of scientists who study this particular class of organism. I don't know why anyone else should care, and headlines like "
<a href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/07/26/microbe_pla.html?category=earth&guid=20070726153030&dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000" id="s-LzHgDHVo-FFIDPeke1zACA:r-5_0"><b>Microbe</b> Makes Energy From Light</a>" lead me to believe that the journalists have never heard of photosynthesis before. They make it sound like the conversion of light to chemical energy is some exciting new discovery, rather than the long-understood main source of energy for life on Earth.
<br><br>David<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:TSBryan@aol.com">TSBryan@aol.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:TSBryan@aol.com">TSBryan@aol.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div>In a message dated 8/13/2007 6:29:46 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
<a href="mailto:Lee_Whittlesey@nps.gov" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Lee_Whittlesey@nps.gov</a> writes:</div>
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid blue; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;"><font style="background-color: transparent;" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">The
media has been full of news about a spring at LGB (Sentinel Meadows<br>Group)
some five kilometers from Octopus Spring that converts light
into<br>energy. It has been informally called "Green Finger
Pool."<br><br>Does anyone have a more precise location for
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</font><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">1. I've never heard of the thing, nor seen any such media. Any
references/sources that can be cited?</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">2. Isn't the distance from Octopus Spring to Sentinel Meadows rather
greater than 5 kilometers?</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">Scott Bryan</font></div></div></blockquote></div><br>