Study: Seafloor Vents 30,000 Years Old

[DoYouEverWonder]

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-seafloor-vents,0,4690318.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines|


uly 24, 2003, 2:28 PM EDT

WASHINGTON -- A collection of giant seafloor hot vents is thousands of years old and may be the type of place where life first developed on Earth, a new study suggests.

Located in the mid-Atlantic about 1,500 miles off the U.S. East Coast, the collection of towering vents discovered in 2000 has been nicknamed the Lost City.

Water coming out of the vents is heated by chemical reactions rather than the volcanic action seen at the better-known hot smoker vents that have been studied in the past, according to the research team led by Gretchen L. Fruh-Green of Switzerland's Institute for Mineralogy and Petrology.

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The Lost City type of vents may be conducive to life because their fluids are less acidic and are rich in organic compounds, compared to the well-known black-smoker vent systems heated by volcanism, the researchers said. In addition, the water from these vents ranges from 105 degrees to 170 degrees Fahrenheit, compared to 700 degrees at volcanic vents.

[opihimoimoi]

1. these are things the bible creationist guys refute and reject

as hogwash

they believe earth is only 7000 years old

[seventhson]

2. You have you remind them that that is in god'years

a God second could be an eternity

how in the F*** would THEY know?

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. What I don't understand

With the folks who want to convince everyone else that the earth is 6000 years old, is that the truth is even more awesome. I kind of like the idea of being stardust.

[lightbulb]

4. Yeah, Carl Sagan's Cosmos

Turned me on WAY more than any other certain books about the nature of the universe as a kid. Cool to think about the gold dental work in your mouth originating inside a supernova billions of years prior. THAT sounds like the hand of God at work to me. Not to turn this into a religious debate...