Found: The World’s Oldest Pool of Water Is 2 Billion Years Old

Atlas Obscura ^ | December 16, 2016 | Sarah Laskow

[SunkenCiv]

This picture shows ALL of Earth's water (liquid, ice, freshwater, and salt water) as a sphere. It would be about 860 miles in diameter (about the distance from Salt Lake City, Utah to Topeka, Kansas, USA). Credit: Illustration by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; USGS.

• Water from 400AD in mystery ocean abyss
• Amazingly, the earths water is really a miniscule amount
• Astronomy Picture of the Day -- All the Water on Planet Earth
• Early Earth Was Almost Entirely Underwater, With Just A Few Islands [Hadean Eon, 4.4 billion years ago]

and, pertaining to "The Big Splash" by Dr. Louis Frank:

• Small Comets and Our Origins
• Cosmic Hole-in-One Captured Over Antarctica
• Solar System Ice: Source of Earth's Water
• Is there an ocean beneath our feet?
• So, where did the water on Mars come from?
• Microorganism Isolated In Space

[cynwoody]

since the sun is the source of heat in our solar system, how could the interstellar ice melt prior to the creation of the sun?

Who said it melted?

It could have simply accreted as ice crystals, then waited for the sun to start up and melt it.

[piasa]

We can never know about the days to come
But we think about them anyway
And I wonder if I’m really with you now
Or just chasin’ after some finer day
Sub-lim-m-a-tion
Sub-lim-m-a-tion
Is makin’ me late
Is keepin’ me waitin’

[newfreep]

Joni Mitchell wrote “Woodstock” and, ironically, chose to not attend the event.

Although her original version was slow & haunting, I prefer her more upbeat, jazzy version in her live album, “Miles of Aisles”.

[Cvengr]

Looks more like Pasta Sauce to me.

[Moonman62]

You’re right, but the article is about a “pool of water” rather than chemical water.

[Covenantor]

A++

[stockpirate]

There was no BB. Violates the first law of thremodynamics

[ETL]

There was no BB. Violates the first law of thermodynamics

There are indeed some serious problems with the standard Big Bang theory, but that doesn't appear to be one of them.

"... Therefore, to those who claim that the very idea of a Big Bang violates the First Law of Thermodynamics (also known as the Law of Conservation of Energy) that matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed, proponents respond that the Big Bang does not address the creation of the universe, only its evolution, and that, as the laws of science break down anyway as we approach the creation of the universe, there is no reason to believe that the First Law of Thermodynamics would apply.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics, on the other hand, lends theoretical (albeit inconclusive) support to the idea of a finite universe originating in a Big Bang type event. If disorder and entropy in the universe as a whole is constantly increasing until it reaches thermodynamic equilibrium, as the Law suggests, then it follows that the universe cannot have existed forever, otherwise it would have reached its equilibrium end state an infinite time ago, our Sun would have exhausted its fuel reserves and died long ago, and the constant cycle of death and rebirth of stars would have ground to a halt after an eternity of dissipation of energy, losses of material to black holes, etc.

http://www.physicsoftheuniverse.com/topics_bigbang.html

[null and void]

Hmmm, makes sense. It’s over 35, its natural, and Canada is practically the US...

[null and void]

We’re all recycled stardust, which kind of makes me feel spatial...

[null and void]

In the semiconductor industry it’s common to burn hydrogen and oxygen to make hyper pure water for some processes.

The wafers are oxidized with the help of literarily new water.

[null and void]

4004 BC+2017AD is 6021, not 6016.

At least get your math right, if nothing else.

[ETL]

We’re all recycled stardust

With a few grains of 'magic dust' somewhere sprinkled in.