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Related: About this forumScientists uncover ‘God’s bathtub’
By Eric Pfeiffer
Imagine a lake that's never been affected by climate change or any other man-made influences. Australian scientists say they have found just thata remote lake whose crystal-clear waters seem to be in the same chemical state as they were about 7,500 years ago.
"It's like God's bathtub," Dr. Cameron Barr told the Australian Associated Press of the body of water now named Blue Lake. "It is beautiful. It is absolutely beautiful."
Barr and his team of researchers from the University of Adelaide say the lakeone of the largest on North Stradbroke Island off the south Queensland coast, according to the AAPis so pure that you can see more than 30 feet below the surface to its bottom.
"It appears that Blue Lake has been an important climate 'refuge' for the freshwater biota of the region, and is in the same condition now as it was 7,500 years ago," Barr told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Barr, who published his findings in the current issue of Freshwater Biology, said it's the only such lake of its kind known to be in Australia.
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Arkansas Granny
(31,517 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)Cronus Protagonist
(15,574 posts)Wait till Bush and his ilk find out about it. They're buying up freshwater lakes and aquifers as if the world is running out of them!
Wounded Bear
(58,660 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)to do a stupid youtube video of the stunt.
Jim__
(14,077 posts)Makes you wonder whatever drove them to publish that story.
MFM008
(19,814 posts)Now that mankind have found it, its history.
lame54
(35,292 posts)JBoy
(8,021 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)chknltl
(10,558 posts)I'm more of a shower man myself.
SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)that the earth is 7,500 years old and not 6,000 years old? Who told you that? Could it be, ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Satan?
Orrex
(63,213 posts)abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)greiner3
(5,214 posts)Nestle, or some other ass hat corp. will drain the water to fill up some more water bottles.
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)noes
Javaman
(62,530 posts)that blows the fundies idea of how old the earth is out of the...water.
and besides, it looks as if "god" doesn't clean it's bathtube very often.