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.
Invade Canada, NOW.
Send EPA-SWAT!
Protect this ancient water.
I’ll bet it has the cure for AIDs, and for Alt-Right.
Of course, I’m not a scientist.
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Yes, but you are a 3rd Grader, from back when it meant something.
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Incredible stupidity.
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Lol
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The Waterboy
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>> “That water likely tastes stale.” <<
It’ll be bottled up and sold by Evian next week.
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But the hydrogen atoms were created soon *after* the BB. (Bad Back). Lol!
BB = Big Bang.
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>> “Of course, I’m not a scientist.” <<
Neither is the fool that said its 2 billion years old.
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That man is the character Bobby Boucher played by Adam Sandler in the only funny movie he ever made, The Waterboy.
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If you watch the movie you’ll get the joke.
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Does Crosby allow his lyrics to be posted on a Deplorable site?
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OK excuse me if I think this is crap. The scientist dig a hole and think that this pool is older than any other pool beneath any other hole they could have dug. Scientist crap just to get published.
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You’re excused. Ignorance is so much easier than science.
Helen Thomas was baptized in that water.
Water filters into the ground constantly. The land itself moves especially over 2 billion years. I am pretty sure that water is not the same water as this guy thinks it is.
So when will they start marketing it to dopey millennials as the latest trend in bottled water? They can call it “Giga-Water”.
The other half is rain in Seattle.
I only drink new water...
I suppose they want us to take showers before we swim in it?....”No pissing in the pool, Wanker!!”
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