Why Did The Geologist Who Discovered The Oldest Water On Earth Taste It?

Back in 2016, a team of geologists deep down in a Canadian mine made quite the discovery – flowing water that, when tested, was found to be over 2.6 billion years old. It became the world’s oldest water, but it took over from a find made by the same team in the same mine three years previous – and that time, one of them tasted it. If this was a movie, this would be the part when everyone sitting in …