water in our oceans is one of the oldest things on our planet - created with it 4.7 billion years ago. so, if water is either in it's liquid form, gaseous form (condensation in the atmosphere), or ice (snow, glaciers), is it safe to say we are drinking a liquid that is 4.7 billion years old?
i cannot stop thinking about this. there is no way you can carbon date water, so there is absolutely no way to tell the age of the water you're drinking. sure, water can be contaminated and shit like that, but even so it can still be purified and therefore it's age doesn't change.
the one thing that may contest to this argument is the fact that new water can be created everyday by oxygen combining with the smaller amounts of hydrogen our planet emits through decay, etc. so i wonder how much this contributes to the total amount of water on earth? even so - can water be destroyed? it can evaporate, but that case it's only changing state. how fucking old is the glass of water i'm drinking right now? i NEED to know.
this is mind boggling, isn't it?
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oh my science!
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