Crazy ideas require crazy decisions. Some time ago, we wrote that scientists found out how our planet actually smelled a few billion years ago, but it turned out that these were just childish pranks. The essence of the new story is this: about a month ago, Canadian miners discovered, as it turned out, the oldest underground pool, the age of which is more than 1.5 billion years. The scientists, of course, immediately became interested in the find - really, but what if traces of prehistoric life remained in this water?
But the interesting fact in this story is not even the fact of the find itself, but what they later did with it. Have you ever tasted water between 1.5 and 2.5 billion years old? Not? Don't know what it tastes like? It tastes like crap ... In general, something like that was described by Dr. Barbara Sherwood Lollar. And after all, she knows what she’s talking about, because she tried it.
A leading researcher in this case and a connoisseur of quality prehistoric foods, Lollar described the physical properties of a liquid substance in a recent interview with the newspaper LA Times. So what does ancient water taste like? Salty and viscous, and also turns orange when in contact with air. Refreshes, in a word!
“I have to admit that I tried this water several times. The taste is terrible, I must say. It is much more salt than sea water. You would definitely not drink like that! ”
Yes. She tried it. Repeatedly. That is more than one. At one point, she even declared:
“I thought that tasting water, whose age could be as much as 2.5 billion years, could be a great idea. Indeed, few can boast of such a thing. ”
What madness sometimes science does not go to make new discoveries!
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