 Editor in Chief Bill   | 16 May 2013 5:54 p.m. PST |
A pocket of water some 2.6 billion years old the most ancient pocket of water known by far, older even than the dawn of multicellular life has now been discovered in a mine 2 miles below the Earth's surface… Read more: link |
| zippyfusenet | 16 May 2013 6:38 p.m. PST |
Um yeah. And they want to find out what might be living in that water… "That is not dead which can eternal lie.
And with strange aeons even death may die." |
| Gunfreak | 17 May 2013 2:57 a.m. PST |
I wish they'd make whisky out of that |
| GeoffQRF | 17 May 2013 6:34 a.m. PST |
Well all the water in the shops has a 'best before' date which seems incredibly short, so this must be well beyond that! |
| Ron W DuBray | 17 May 2013 6:40 a.m. PST |
Are they saying that its been closed off in a water tight hole from all the other water on the earth? with no water getting in or out? because all the water on earth is going to be about the same age. except the stuff humans broke into H and O2 and burned back into water. |
| GeoffQRF | 17 May 2013 6:46 a.m. PST |
You do think, one wrong rain shower and that's the whole thing down the drain… |
| Cincinnatus | 18 May 2013 10:11 a.m. PST |
And there's no quarantine of people exposed to this water? Seems like the sort of thing I'd be worried about. Something that we have no immunity to being exposed. |
| Gunfreak | 18 May 2013 11:31 a.m. PST |
"Seems like the sort of thing I'd be worried about. Something that we have no immunity to being exposed." But microbes are picky, you can bathe in one type of virus and it won't hurt you, but you get a few small pox viruses in you and you are in trouble. The chances of virus/bacteria or other life some how know how to or even to attack us is slim, micro organismens have evolved along side us. that why they target us. Feline HIV is no dangoure to us, human HIV is bad for us. It's the old predator prey thing, prey and predator evolving along side eachother. So unless the microbes make some sort of toxin that kills lots of stuff, we should be safe. |
| Cincinnatus | 18 May 2013 11:44 a.m. PST |
Then why was the stuff from the moon put in quarantine? Really I don't doubt what you say but it seems kind of stupid to not take some precautions even if the chances are slim. It's not like we know everything there is to know. |
| Gunfreak | 20 May 2013 8:13 a.m. PST |
I'm guessing stuff from the moon sent to quaratine, was to see if they had life, there for, they had to be in a sterile invorment so microbes from earth could not infact the moon rocks, and give false positive. |
| Cincinnatus | 20 May 2013 7:32 p.m. PST |
I'm sure there was some concern about that at first but they specifically put them in with different lifeforms from Earth to see if there was anything there that would cause harm to life based on Earth. They did all of this before they felt comfortable exposing anyone else to them. Here's the link: link They do say that after a number of missions showed nothing coming back was going to be a problem, they dropped the requirement from a hazard standpoint but still tried to keep the samples clean to allow study. But the point is – they felt there was the possibility that stuff coming from the moon was potentially dangerous. Certainly stuff already here should be treated the same? |
