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G7PSK:

--- Quote from: cdev on May 05, 2021, 02:26:01 pm ---There is water in space, in an extremely rarefied form.

The amount of water on the Earth may be increasing, kind of like as if it was raining.

We really don't know. But there may be much more than we thought in the past. A huge patch of water was recently discovered several billions of light years away (so also in the past,  a long time ago, also. So this water is very "old". But this "cloud" of water is also very large.

The discovery at quasar APM 08279+5255
was made by the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, making use of a technology known as Z-Spec.

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There is now thought to be up to ten times the amount of water on earth than in the oceans, rather in the earth bound up in the rocks and as earth cools and shrinks water is forced from the rocks. 

cdev:
This storyof the

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra

reminds me of a real animal, thats found in Borneo. Its a tufted ground squirrel of Borneo, also known as the "vampire squirrel"



It is the animal on Earth with the largest and most voluminous tail. But the reason its well known globally, which has been verified as true, is that this squirrel is a Omnivore, like us . US squirrels are also omnivores, but the only "meat" they eat is insects.

Like the mythical Chupacabra (Happy Cinco De Mayo!) they lie in wait for, and kill much larger animals and in the Borneo squirrels case, drink its blood, and or selectively feed on its remains, leaving the rest behind, which presumably other animals eat. As far as I know they are the only rodent that behaves this way.

Definitely they are well on the way towards monster status.  Its conceivable that these squirrels might prey on human children, who are roughly the same size as some of their prey.  Since I read about this I haven't looked at squirrels the same way as I did before. They have a dark side.





This is a dead sqirrel that somebody shot that had large lower teeth, "fangs" One of these two teeth which were overgrown was beginning to look like it would penetrate his brain soon.  It must have been in tremendous pain.


Simon:
Water is Hydrogen and Oxygen so can be split at which point it's no longer water and when recombined becomes "new" water. Even if it evaporates it will leave behind "stuff" that was dissolved in it so I think what they mean by oldest water is water that has not evaporated and been there with whatever is in it for a long time. I mean what if some evaporated and "new" water condensed into it, they would probably still claim that it is "old", it seems to be more about what is in it than the actual H2O itself

cdev:
Ice cores from places like Greenland and Antarctica contain a tremendous amount of information about past volcanism and compostion of the atmosphere.. even things like pollen. (so using it they can get an idea of what plants existed in the past)

They can determine down to the year and even month when volcanic eruptions thousands of years ago occurred.

--- Quote from: Simon on May 05, 2021, 05:33:06 pm ---Water is Hydrogen and Oxygen so can be split at which point it's no longer water and when recombined becomes "new" water. Even if it evaporates it will leave behind "stuff" that was dissolved in it so I think what they mean by oldest water is water that has not evaporated and been there with whatever is in it for a long time. I mean what if some evaporated and "new" water condensed into it, they would probably still claim that it is "old", it seems to be more about what is in it than the actual H2O itself

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Simon:
Yes ice is ice, it's frozen so will stay put for a while ;)

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