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The world’s oldest water, which is locked deep within the Earth’s crust, just got even older.
The liquid was discovered deep down in a mine in Canada in 2013 and is about 1.5 billion years old.
But now, at the same site, University of Toronto scientists have found a deeper source of water that is at least 500 million years more ancient.
The work was presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco.
Professor Barbara Sherwood Lollar, who led the team that made the discovery, told BBC News: “When people think about this water they assume it must be some tiny amount of water trapped within the rock.
“But in fact it’s very much bubbling right up out at you. These things are flowing at rates of litres per minute - the volume of the water is much larger than anyone anticipated.”
In your face, Peru!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @04:48PM
In order to preserve and ration a resource, its value to the world must be determined; that's the whole point of an economy: To figure out the best way for society to appropriate resources; under a Free Market, the solution is brought into existence under evolution, without requiring an Intelligent Designer.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Friday December 16 2016, @05:28PM
Price =/= value. I bet you'd tear down the coliseum to build a shopping mall if the price was right.
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Friday December 16 2016, @06:51PM
A mall in place of the Coliseum? I wouldn't.
Banks and McDonalds have better return per square metre. The rest can be luxury condos.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday December 16 2016, @10:25PM
The free market, if such a thing had ever existed outside an economist's dreams, only allocates resources in the most economically efficient manner. To claim that that is the "best" or "most valuable" manner is making an unsubstantiated leap of faith, as there is precious little evidence to suggest that economic efficiency correlates particularly well with any moral, ethical, or aesthetic definition of "good", at least once you get beyond the level of basic survival.