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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: JusPasenThru
Here is a haiku I wrote at a YES concert years ago. It is a haiku in both French and English.

Nous sommes du soleil
Les visages de les enfants
Le main de Dieu.

We are of the sun
The faces of the children
God's hand in us all.

"Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

61 posted on 12/20/2016 4:19:34 PM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: rdl6989
half of the water on Earth is actually melted interstellar ice that predates the sun.

since the sun is the source of heat in our solar system, how could the interstellar ice melt prior to the creation of the sun?

I'm confused......

62 posted on 12/20/2016 4:23:12 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: NYer

Is this one of those creationist, the earth is 6000 years old threads, or interesting science. The comments I’ve seen so far scare me.


63 posted on 12/20/2016 4:37:32 PM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: FrankR
Wow...no evaporation in all that time...amazing.

It wasn't exposed to air.

64 posted on 12/20/2016 4:43:16 PM PST by palmer (turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure)
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To: jonno

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We used to have a Dennis the Menace cartoon up on the wall.

His mom was having a hen party, and is pouring punch from a pitcher into one of the ladies’ cup while Dennis blurts out “the kitchen sink isn’t working so Mom used bathroom water to make the punch” as his mom’s knees are quivering like she is about to die of embarrassment.


65 posted on 12/20/2016 5:08:21 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: FrankR
i'm pretty sure they'll tell you it's settled science...
66 posted on 12/20/2016 5:09:52 PM PST by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

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“Old Earth” is definitely not science.

Your comments should embarrass you.
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67 posted on 12/20/2016 5:11:02 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Moonman62; poinq

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This is Science Fiction.
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68 posted on 12/20/2016 5:17:39 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: poinq

I get that it was underground, but that it was there for 2 billion years with zero infiltration from above is a little hard to accept.


69 posted on 12/20/2016 5:28:28 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: NYer


70 posted on 12/20/2016 5:34:52 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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71 posted on 12/20/2016 5:53:02 PM PST by ETL (On the road to America's recovery!)
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To: toast

The cruel ghoul from the cool pool!


72 posted on 12/20/2016 6:17:26 PM PST by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: TheBigB
As a point of reference, 2 billion years ago Strom Thurmond had only finished his second term

Robert Byrd was still only a Ku Klux Klansboi.

73 posted on 12/20/2016 6:52:03 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Safetgiver

No wanking in the pool, pisser!


74 posted on 12/20/2016 6:56:43 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: editor-surveyor

What do you mean by “old earth is definitely not science”? Are you inferring that there is a new earth that is scientificly gifted in sentient way? Why should my comments embarrass me? Why are you harassing me anyway?


75 posted on 12/20/2016 7:42:31 PM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: NYer

That will be a GREAT slogan on the bottle!


76 posted on 12/20/2016 7:45:30 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: NYer

It’s older than Abe Vigoda? Wow...


77 posted on 12/20/2016 7:48:17 PM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

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Why are you harassing the thread?

The Earth is 6016 years old.

All of the physical evidence shows that the Earth cannot be older than that. We still have constant deep soil land slides all over the Earth, and all of the soil would be rock if the Earth had been broken up more than once.

Features that the oldies try to say are evidence of age are really quite the opposite.

The Grand Canyon for example would be nothing but a narrow slot rather than an open canyon had it not been mostly created in a few days while the soil was all still wet from the Genesis flood.

The only part of that canyon that was slowly eroded is the very bottom, which is only cut a few feet from the rocks that tumble down the river under present flows.
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78 posted on 12/20/2016 8:37:57 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: FrankR

Pore water at that depth (and pretty much the rest of the shallower) in a closed formation doesn’t evaporate.


79 posted on 12/20/2016 11:38:10 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Note: this topic is from 12/20/2016. Thanks NYer.

80 posted on 11/13/2017 12:46:15 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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