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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBillion year old drinking water,.... found in a Canadian cave,.... if you like very salty water....
isolated in the rock for roughly two billion years. That is older than animals, older than plants, and older than almost everything most people picture when they think of life. When that water was last in contact with the surface, the only life on Earth was microbial. The researcher who led the work, Barbara Sherwood Lollar of the University of Toronto, tasted it.
More at link below,...
https://spacedaily.com/t-nearly-three-kilometres-beneath-a-canadian-mine-geologists-found-water-that-may-have-been-isolated-in-the-rock-for-roughly-two-billion-years-older-than-animals-plants-and-almost-everything/
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Billion year old drinking water,.... found in a Canadian cave,.... if you like very salty water.... (Original Post)
magicarpet
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SSJVegeta
(3,373 posts)1. Makes me want to consider those outlandish ideas that perhaaps humans did not originate on earth
TexLaProgressive
(12,800 posts)2. Drinking water?
The brine was so salty and bitter
Ocelot II
(131,660 posts)3. It wasn't "drinking water" - it was much too salty to be drinkable.
magicarpet
(19,525 posts)4. Changed the post title to reflect the salty water thang,....
(Door bell rang,.... so I posted prematurely.)