World's Oldest Water Discovered in Canada

[LookBehindYou]

6co2 + 6h2o → c6h12o6 + 6o2

Wut? 😕

<---Got a C in Chemistry...

 

[Gibsons]

Wut? 😕

<---Got a C in Chemistry...

Plants will take water (H2O) and carbon dioxide and use it to make sugars. And eventually, lots of other things.

The sugar can then be burned or metabolized to make 'new' water.

 

[LookBehindYou]

Plants will take water (H2O) and carbon dioxide and use it to make sugars. And eventually, lots of other things.

The sugar can then be burned or metabolized to make 'new' water.

Ahh, gotcha. The equation threw me off.

 

[ProchargeMe]

It's Daleks

 

[GTaudiophile]

The Black Ooze virus to kill us all! The Aliens have been here all along...

 

[CurseTheSky]

Clearly... this is the beginning of the zombie apocalypse.

You heard it here first, folks!

 

[silverpig]

this isn't about the age of the water, it's about the how long it has been isolated from the rest of the biosphere (assuming it was perfectly sealed all that time... a big assumption).

Anyway, there could be some very interesting insights into the evolution of life on Earth if that water has been truly isolated for billions of years. Very exciting potentially. 😎

This. The water was supposedly trapped underground for the entire time and has been isolated from the rest of the earth's water (and life).

They are hoping to filter a bunch of it to see if they can pull some DNA or something from it.

 

[SagaLore]

I never did electrolysis in science class in school, but I did it at home since I bought a bunch of chemistry apparatus from a catalog and Ebay. I didn't know you can age the water. How do you do that?

In oak barrels

 

[JoetheLion]

In a few weeks there will be beer made with billion year old water...

Meh, you know what kind of piss you'll get if you let your beer standing for too long...

 

[SunnyD]

Old sparkling salty water? I call it "god piss".

 

[Wyndru]

Quick! Run it through a brita!

 

[Darwin333]

This. The water was supposedly trapped underground for the entire time and has been isolated from the rest of the earth's water (and life).

They are hoping to filter a bunch of it to see if they can pull some DNA or something from it.

The article in the OP says it has been seeping to the surface for at least hundreds of years. If it can get up wouldn't it be safe to say that something could get down?

 

[zinfamous]

this is where all the black ooze from those Prometheus aliens has been hiding all along.

 

[silverpig]

The article in the OP says it has been seeping to the surface for at least hundreds of years. If it can get up wouldn't it be safe to say that something could get down?

Not to the surface. It was seeping into the boreholes in mines 2.4 km below the surface.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

How long before they bottle it up and sell it for $25+ a bottle???

How about a hundred and selling it as a "timeless mixer"? I would so buy into that location.

 

[silverpig]

How about a hundred and selling it as a "timeless mixer"? I would so buy into that location.

giga-water

or hell water?