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Found: The World’s Oldest Pool of Water Is 2 Billion Years Old
Atlas Obscura ^ | December 16, 2016 | Sarah Laskow

Posted on 12/20/2016 1:44:17 PM PST by NYer

Deep within a mine in Canada, there is a pool of water bubbling out of the ground. It’s close to 2 miles below the surface of the earth and, according to the scientists who discovered it, it’s been there for 2 billion years, making it the oldest pool of water in the world.

Previously that record was held by a pool further up in the mine, about 1.5 miles down, which was discovered in 2013 and given the age of 1.5 billion years.

The scientists date the water by analysing the gases trapped inside. As the CBC explains, gases like helium and xenon accumulate in the water while it’s stuck in rock fractures. Measuring those concentrations can tell the researchers how old the water is.

What’s unique about this water is that it’s been conserved for all that time. Much of the water on this planet has an even older origin: half of the water on Earth is actually melted interstellar ice that predates the sun.

As the BBC reports, the most fascinating aspect of these billion-year-old pools of water is the possibility that they could reveal more about life on Earth billions of years ago. The scientists have detected signs that single-celled organisms once lived in this water, which is now about eight times saltier than seawater.


TOPICS: History; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: canada; earth; godsgravesglyphs; h2o; helium; water; xenon
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To: NYer

Interesting. Thank you for this post.


21 posted on 12/20/2016 2:06:59 PM PST by Mr Apple ( Let's play.........Hide the Muslim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59J0i3LNoY8)
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To: FrankR
Wow...no evaporation in all that time...amazing.

That's because the pool isn't "2 billion years old." It's silly to say so.

22 posted on 12/20/2016 2:07:16 PM PST by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: NYer

Sooo...

I suppose they want us to take showers before we swim in it?


23 posted on 12/20/2016 2:07:31 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Who is the man in that photograph, and what is his relationship to a pool of old stale water?


24 posted on 12/20/2016 2:08:05 PM PST by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF TWO USA CITIZENS)
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To: BwanaNdege

Speaking of scientists and God....

The scientist tells God that he can create life too. God takes the bet and says “Go”. The scientist grabs a big scoop of dirt. God looks over and says “Hey - get your own dirt!”


25 posted on 12/20/2016 2:08:51 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Jeff Chandler; dfwgator

lol


26 posted on 12/20/2016 2:12:10 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: JusPasenThru

Stardust

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em3xyZz_mow


27 posted on 12/20/2016 2:12:24 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: SkyDancer

I was wondering where the date stamp was, too.


28 posted on 12/20/2016 2:13:26 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Politically Correct

I like what CSN did to that song more than Joni’s unpleasant caterwauling.


29 posted on 12/20/2016 2:14:53 PM PST by Rastus (#NeverHillary #AlwaysTrump)
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To: BwanaNdege

+1


30 posted on 12/20/2016 2:16:19 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: musicman

That is great


31 posted on 12/20/2016 2:16:40 PM PST by NorseWood
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To: NYer

32 posted on 12/20/2016 2:17:06 PM PST by toast
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To: musicman

lolol


33 posted on 12/20/2016 2:17:30 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: NYer

Would make a great Christmas gift!


34 posted on 12/20/2016 2:17:39 PM PST by Lent
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To: NYer

Test it for hormones.


35 posted on 12/20/2016 2:17:47 PM PST by Rapscallion (The opposite of charity is justice. I favor justice every time.)
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To: NYer
Was Dan Rather any where near by to report on this find.

My gut feeling is some very liberal scientist from a very liberal university was given a very large sum of money from the liberal Democrat party to come up with this bull sh## discovery to push their evolutionary old earth made up science.

36 posted on 12/20/2016 2:18:34 PM PST by ReformedBeckite (1 of 3 I'm only allowing my self each day)
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To: rdl6989

[ half of the water on Earth is actually melted interstellar ice that predates the Sun. ]

I guess all that ice had to be wait around, being bored, for the Sun to be created to melt it. Finally!....they thought....


37 posted on 12/20/2016 2:18:44 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: toast

I thought Hillary was going to retire after losing in 2016?


38 posted on 12/20/2016 2:19:45 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: ETL

that explains why my back hurts.


39 posted on 12/20/2016 2:21:08 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: TheBigB

Lol


40 posted on 12/20/2016 2:22:43 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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