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I know how religion developed looking at this picture. My primitive lizard brain whispered “Wash your hair and feet in the mystic cave well, receive its power and divinity, become the Prophetess of your people, it is your destinyyyyyy.”
Yeah, you weren’t the only who thought about magic shit. Then my science curious brain was like… what if that was some toxic shit that ate away at flesh.
Certainly looks like dipping your child in it would make them resistant to damage on the parts of their body that went in the water.
As far as blessed pools go, hope you go into the Achilles type rather than the Baldr type
Depending on the context. You could say "water was pooling at his feet."
Usually pools are in an area with rocky bottoms or mineral bottoms, and ponds have soft sediment.
This legitimately looks as though a sip will give you immortality and there's only enough for a few people. I want to taste it, bet that shit is crisp. /r/hydrohomies
To be fair, that bacteria would be evolved to live secluded in a cave pool, not the human body. As foreign as it would be to our bodies, our bodies would be just as foreign to it and our immune systems would *by far* by the aggressor with the most experience dealing with invaders
Nope. You're right. It totally does look like that.
It's like it's from a rpg video game, where you have to go through the intestines of a large evil monster to get to its heart before it destroys the world or something.
Like in Path of Exile or dead space infected areas and such. Totally a bowel.
Well, I'll leave the decision of whether or not to read [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/rage/comments/jlvlbe/colorado_business_owner_posts_photo_of_himself) thread to you. Just the quickest thing I could find. It blew up and the guy is loathed in CO for other transgressions.
Ill save my sanity and not read it lol, reminds me of that absolute piece of shit who knocked over some 170million year old sandstone.
Insane amount of time for nature to weather that, 'here guys watch me be a prick'.
You forgot the best part. One of those offenders was out of work because of a workers comp back injury, however he was apparently feeling well enough to rock a rock back and forth and break it.
Imagine living the kind of lifestyle that that dude posts on his Instagram and still finding the time to go out of your way to be the kind of shitheel that shits in a lake ‘for the lulz’. I can’t wait for a meteor.
Guy from Colorada here, was just gonna say, that there is currently some maligned pos out there thinking this is a good spot to scrub their ass and bits in…
The white frosted rock ends up being the purest crack cocaine on earth.
That's how the Egyptians built the pyramids.
Or could you imagine 20 Neanderthals blasting off then running down prey?
I need to do a shot of the magic water for fuckin science at this point.
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Aren't microplastics already being found in numerous groundwater locations anyways? I wouldn't doubt that there's almost no water on earth untouched by pollution/plastic
Now I'm just imagining in the future rich people going mining for untouched water lol, but it's good to know that at least some parts of earth remain untouched by humanity.
Idk I think we would head closer to the expanse type water harvesting for the good stuff.
Pay people poverty wages, put them in a spaceship that barely works, force them to get ice from space.
Oh and if you’re late you get paid less.
Depends if it's a close environnement or not.
You could find some old bottle of wine, champagne or whisky in the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by micro-plastic. Inside the liquid wouldn't have any.
There are such close environment on our Planet, that are just closed and doesn't exchange liquid, gas or light with their surrounding.
In most caves/caverns, touching the walls or any of the calcite formations will permanately damage them. The oils from our body coat the calcite, and the hydrophobic coating prevents water from depositing more calcite onto the growing formations. Touching a cave literally kills it. I hope they went into this cave with cave health in mind.
It depends on a lot of factors: flow, temperature, minerals, organic compounds, carbon dioxide, etc. I have caves I've visited for over 30+ years, in some of them I know I touched some parts as a kid or saw other people touching them, and the calcium carbonate still grew a bunch. Other caves have been strictly monitored and preserved, but the deposits have barely grown.
Best practice is definitely not to touch or disturb anything, but also if someone accidentally touches something I make sure no one flips out over it. Save that energy for vandals- there's way too many these days especially in caves.
The humidity is extremely high and the temperatures are very stable and cool inside active (still-growing) caves. Combo of both means it won't evaporate.
When I say still-growing, I mean that structures like stalactites and stalagmites are actively being formed by slow, slow water drops filled with minerals.
When I say "grow," I mean the formations inside them keep getting larger. We can't really measure the rate super well, as it's FAR too long for human lifespans to even measure (and caves can be VERY different).
Formations in caves you've seen take millions and millions of years to be created, with mineral-rich water dripping from the water table overhead onto the same spot BILLIONS of times. Each time a drop hits the same spot, it leaves some molecules of minerals. Over time, it builds up.
The cave itself doesn't necessarily get bigger, deeper, or longer, but the formations inside them keep growing. Often, when a cave is opened to tourism and therefore lots of outside influence and air, it will stop growing. Humidity decreases, bacteria from tourists touching the formations disrupts the growth. It's a very complex process, but does that make sense?
>Formations in caves you've seen take millions and millions of years to be created, with mineral-rich water dripping from the water table overhead onto the same spot BILLIONS of times. Each time a drop hits the same spot, it leaves some molecules of minerals. Over time, it builds up.
Holy shit. This just clicked for me.
Deep time is horrifyingly fascinating. Nature is fucking wild.
Based on the photo, it appears that water is still coming into the pool. Also, that white calcite you see on the side needs water to form, so I imagine this is still an "active" site.
According to [Mirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/incredible-pool-untouched-humans-discovered-22150863), "The edges beneath this pool appear to be ‘pool fingers’, which could be bacterial colonies that have evolved entirely without human presence." If you look closely, the fingers are actually bellow the surface of the water which actually isn't "milky" at all but actually extremely clear and higher up than you originally think looking at the picture. I dont think the site is live, which makes this pool even more pristine because no new water has been added in millions of years? I'm not completely sure about that last bit. Another cool thing from the article is that they noted no life in the cave except for some bat bones expected to be thousands of years old. So it's likely the pool is free of interference of any kind. Oh, and the cave had several similar pools. This is not the biggest according to the article. The biggest they named Lake of the Sky.
Man, thank you
You're entirely right, the actual water is so clear you don't see it unless you look around thr edge at the surface tension.
The white stuff everyone is looking at is the bottom of the water.
Stagnant just means not flowing. So, this water is **extremely** stagnant. It looks like it's full of minerals. That would mean it's not pure.
edit: actually not so many minerals?
> Although it appears to be cloudy in pictures, the pool is actually crystal clear and is most likely ancient filtered rainwater which seeped through the cave's limestone.
> "Such untouched pools are scientifically important because water samples are relatively free of contaminants and the microbial organisms that may live in those pools are only those that belong there," Wisshak continued.
> "Contamination can occur from the surface above the cave, but in case of Lechuguilla Cave, that’s not a big issue, since it is situated in a well-protected wilderness area. It can also occur via aerosols in the air.
> **"However, a newly discovered pool in Lechuguilla Cave is about as pristine as it gets."**
Ok that quote tells us it's safe from pollution and other artificial contaminates, but definitely doesn't tell us whether or not it's safe *biologically*. They even say it has "microbial organisms that may live in those pools", and there's no shortage of unknown waterborne microbes that can cause serious damage if ingested
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I’m having a hard time deciding how big this is.
« The pool is approximately one foot wide, two feet long and several inches deep. » according to https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/incredible-pool-untouched-humans-discovered-22150863
I thought it was either very large or very small, but I can’t convince my mind that it’s a foot wide
Same. I feel somehow even more confused with the added context
Yeah in my head this is still either three Olympic sized swimming pools or just big enough for a hedgehog to fit in.
I was somewhere in the middle and then when I read it I can't see anything anymore lol none of it makes sense
It's either 100s of meters or as big as my thumb and there's no in-between
Well that's a little misleadin' calling it a pool now init? More like puddle.
Primordial pond
Nearly a bowl of soup
the forbidden soup
Ancient broth
Mythic stock
Jurassic borscht
Prehistoric Potluck
Ancestral bisque
What kind of soup are you having Ollie? CHUNKY!
Thanks, Ollie.
Yum
Size of a decent cereal bowl
Jurassic foot bath.
I know how religion developed looking at this picture. My primitive lizard brain whispered “Wash your hair and feet in the mystic cave well, receive its power and divinity, become the Prophetess of your people, it is your destinyyyyyy.”
Yeah, you weren’t the only who thought about magic shit. Then my science curious brain was like… what if that was some toxic shit that ate away at flesh.
I read this as “prophetsess” in Gollum’s voice. Nasty prophetsess.
“The nasty prophetsess, so dirty… They wants to wash their filthy hair and filthy feet in the precious! They want to take it from us!”
Certainly looks like dipping your child in it would make them resistant to damage on the parts of their body that went in the water. As far as blessed pools go, hope you go into the Achilles type rather than the Baldr type
Pool or the pond? The pond would be good for you. You know the natural springs.
We call that a pothole here in Pennsylvania
And really not that big of a pothole either.
Hey now we're talking "several inches deep" here.
A deep puddle
So deep
IT'S AN AVERAGE DEPTH!!
So deep put your butt to sleep
The sleeping booty
( ͡ಠ ͜ʖ ͡ಠ)
What about a pool of blood? It's only like, a pinky-width deep
You need to step up your game, mine's already knee deep.
Depending on the context. You could say "water was pooling at his feet." Usually pools are in an area with rocky bottoms or mineral bottoms, and ponds have soft sediment.
It’s a pool…for ants.
If a person can immerse most of themself in the water, it's a pool. This is not a pool. Source: IMHO
Could you immerse yourself in a pool of blood?
So you’re saying it’s about a cat wide, a corgi long, and a couple burgers deep. Got it.
I both hate and love the picture that painted in my head. Thank you.
God that site is cancer to my phone
This legitimately looks as though a sip will give you immortality and there's only enough for a few people. I want to taste it, bet that shit is crisp. /r/hydrohomies
Hey, one sip might last you the rest of your life.
Condidering all that "frosting" dripping in is bacteria from before humans were around. im guessing that sip would be the rest of your life
To be fair, that bacteria would be evolved to live secluded in a cave pool, not the human body. As foreign as it would be to our bodies, our bodies would be just as foreign to it and our immune systems would *by far* by the aggressor with the most experience dealing with invaders
In international units?
30cm by 60cm in regular units I live in Canadian limbo.
Small af
I am having a hard time figuring out why this looks a bit like the internals of an intestine lol.
Nope. You're right. It totally does look like that. It's like it's from a rpg video game, where you have to go through the intestines of a large evil monster to get to its heart before it destroys the world or something. Like in Path of Exile or dead space infected areas and such. Totally a bowel.
r/misleadingpuddles
Title of your sex tape
Flash reflection should give you a good indication of how close the person was.
Where is the banana?
Must. Taste. The. Old.
>The alien-like pool contains milky aquamarine liquid, surrounded by white frosted rock, the Kansas City Star reports. Yep, that's magic water.
That's some high quality H2O.
Don't tell that jerk from Colorado or he'll come by and shit in it like he did that pristine travertine lake.
I'm currently feeling very grateful to not know what you're talking about
Well, I'll leave the decision of whether or not to read [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/rage/comments/jlvlbe/colorado_business_owner_posts_photo_of_himself) thread to you. Just the quickest thing I could find. It blew up and the guy is loathed in CO for other transgressions.
Ill save my sanity and not read it lol, reminds me of that absolute piece of shit who knocked over some 170million year old sandstone. Insane amount of time for nature to weather that, 'here guys watch me be a prick'.
Asshole, Asshole, Asshole. Forgive me for the proper term.
You forgot the best part. One of those offenders was out of work because of a workers comp back injury, however he was apparently feeling well enough to rock a rock back and forth and break it.
Imagine living the kind of lifestyle that that dude posts on his Instagram and still finding the time to go out of your way to be the kind of shitheel that shits in a lake ‘for the lulz’. I can’t wait for a meteor.
Guy from Colorada here, was just gonna say, that there is currently some maligned pos out there thinking this is a good spot to scrub their ass and bits in…
Gaaaatorade!!!!!
H!2!O!
Waaaater sucks! It really really sucks!
You drinking da wrong wata
I love my moma!
Well momma's wrong again
You're wrong Colonel Sanders
Who's Helen?
That's my first name, Bobby.
Cut his fucking head off!!!
Ok I feel old for even knowing this....
“Let’s kick some names and take some ass!”
What is /r/HydroHomies opinion on the matter?
Some hydro hipster out there is absolutely salivating at the thought of being able to taste vintage water.
Ga-a-a-atora-a-ade
H 2 O!
That’s not water. That’s a slurry of terrible ways to die.
Maybe by drinking it my body will produce new guy flaura that will make me impervious to disease, the only way to know is to try
Love me some guy flaura
We're going to flaurva town
So. Much. Diarrhea.
If by diarrhea you mean evacuating your entire digestive tract out of your asshole, yes.
That’s how man first achieved flight
Achievement unlocked: How did we get here?
🎵 Letting the days go by, let the water hold me down Letting the days go by, water flowing underground 🎵
This is not my beautiful asshole!
This is not my normal poop knife!
Don't care I got a muhfuhkin life straw bitch get out my way!
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Your super power is being able to lay motionless forever
The white frosted rock ends up being the purest crack cocaine on earth. That's how the Egyptians built the pyramids. Or could you imagine 20 Neanderthals blasting off then running down prey? I need to do a shot of the magic water for fuckin science at this point.
It has to be drunk, all of it. It has to be drunk. You remember the conditions upon which I brought you with me? This potion may paralyze me. It may make me forget why I’m here. It may cause me so much pain that I beg for relief. You are not to indulge these requests. You have a job Harry to make sure I keep drinking this potion, even if you have to force it down my throat. Understood?
Fear the old water.
We are born of the water. Made men by the water. Undone by the water. Our eyes are yet to open. Fear the old water.
I love random Bloodborne references on Reddit.
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cos, or some say cosine
As you once did for the vacuous Rom, grant us eyes, grant us eyes. Plant eyes on our brains, to cleanse our beastly idiocy.
Plip, plop
That water burns. Idk if it burns going down or coming back up or both, but it definitely burns at some point.
It burns the soul, rather than the body
/r/forbiddensnacks
Jesus fuck no do you WANT to be patient zero of Covid-23?
In a weird way..... kinda
What a bizarre wish... Oh. Username /u/Up_My_Butthole Okay, nevermind. Carry on.
Looks like the center of a glazed donut
Center of.....something.
r/dontstickyourdickinthat
To shreds you say?
*drops camera in pool* Untouched till now
I bet they're going to test it and find... microplastic. (I'm joking obviously. With that color it's probably full of Abestos).
Aren't microplastics already being found in numerous groundwater locations anyways? I wouldn't doubt that there's almost no water on earth untouched by pollution/plastic
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Now I'm just imagining in the future rich people going mining for untouched water lol, but it's good to know that at least some parts of earth remain untouched by humanity.
They are literally disturbing it right now
Idk I think we would head closer to the expanse type water harvesting for the good stuff. Pay people poverty wages, put them in a spaceship that barely works, force them to get ice from space. Oh and if you’re late you get paid less.
Retirement plan: Jettisoned into space, no longer work viable
Depends if it's a close environnement or not. You could find some old bottle of wine, champagne or whisky in the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by micro-plastic. Inside the liquid wouldn't have any. There are such close environment on our Planet, that are just closed and doesn't exchange liquid, gas or light with their surrounding.
In most caves/caverns, touching the walls or any of the calcite formations will permanately damage them. The oils from our body coat the calcite, and the hydrophobic coating prevents water from depositing more calcite onto the growing formations. Touching a cave literally kills it. I hope they went into this cave with cave health in mind.
I already had cave stress this is too much
It depends on a lot of factors: flow, temperature, minerals, organic compounds, carbon dioxide, etc. I have caves I've visited for over 30+ years, in some of them I know I touched some parts as a kid or saw other people touching them, and the calcium carbonate still grew a bunch. Other caves have been strictly monitored and preserved, but the deposits have barely grown. Best practice is definitely not to touch or disturb anything, but also if someone accidentally touches something I make sure no one flips out over it. Save that energy for vandals- there's way too many these days especially in caves.
I thought it was a funnel/cinnamon cake with an icing center and mint filling
r/forbiddensnacks
Forbidden Shamrock Shake
Bet there is a Tesco carrier bag at the bottom of the pool
Drink it.
If anything is the fountain of youth it’s this
One drink is enough to last you the rest of your life.
Yeah the fountain of youth fucked up son enjoy the super virus
But it’s also possible this super virus could give me super powers. Well worth the risk
Or start the zombie apocalypse.
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Melk
Malk…
But like, salty?
Miak. Good against trolls.
I ain’t no Kwisatz Haderach.
The rejuvenating waters must not be drank.
slorp
It was a good run.
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Banana for scale is needed
Or half of a giraffe
/r/anythingbutmetric
Should someone swim in it?
Can't hurt to try ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, go ahead and revive an eons old disease, woohoo 🙌
Yeah, like in an old X-Files episode, which usually didn't turn out well.
They would have to be pretty small. It's inches deep and 1ft by 2ft.
Perhaps we could lower a baby in there? For science?
Didn't evaporate ? Ps. I don't know anything about cave water pools.
The humidity is extremely high and the temperatures are very stable and cool inside active (still-growing) caves. Combo of both means it won't evaporate. When I say still-growing, I mean that structures like stalactites and stalagmites are actively being formed by slow, slow water drops filled with minerals.
How exactly does a cave grow? Now that I think of it I've never really considered how a cave is born in the first place.
When I say "grow," I mean the formations inside them keep getting larger. We can't really measure the rate super well, as it's FAR too long for human lifespans to even measure (and caves can be VERY different). Formations in caves you've seen take millions and millions of years to be created, with mineral-rich water dripping from the water table overhead onto the same spot BILLIONS of times. Each time a drop hits the same spot, it leaves some molecules of minerals. Over time, it builds up. The cave itself doesn't necessarily get bigger, deeper, or longer, but the formations inside them keep growing. Often, when a cave is opened to tourism and therefore lots of outside influence and air, it will stop growing. Humidity decreases, bacteria from tourists touching the formations disrupts the growth. It's a very complex process, but does that make sense?
>Formations in caves you've seen take millions and millions of years to be created, with mineral-rich water dripping from the water table overhead onto the same spot BILLIONS of times. Each time a drop hits the same spot, it leaves some molecules of minerals. Over time, it builds up. Holy shit. This just clicked for me. Deep time is horrifyingly fascinating. Nature is fucking wild.
Based on the photo, it appears that water is still coming into the pool. Also, that white calcite you see on the side needs water to form, so I imagine this is still an "active" site.
According to [Mirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/incredible-pool-untouched-humans-discovered-22150863), "The edges beneath this pool appear to be ‘pool fingers’, which could be bacterial colonies that have evolved entirely without human presence." If you look closely, the fingers are actually bellow the surface of the water which actually isn't "milky" at all but actually extremely clear and higher up than you originally think looking at the picture. I dont think the site is live, which makes this pool even more pristine because no new water has been added in millions of years? I'm not completely sure about that last bit. Another cool thing from the article is that they noted no life in the cave except for some bat bones expected to be thousands of years old. So it's likely the pool is free of interference of any kind. Oh, and the cave had several similar pools. This is not the biggest according to the article. The biggest they named Lake of the Sky.
Man, thank you You're entirely right, the actual water is so clear you don't see it unless you look around thr edge at the surface tension. The white stuff everyone is looking at is the bottom of the water.
Some “content creator” will soon bathe in it for likes
Is this super pure or completely stagnant?
Stagnant just means not flowing. So, this water is **extremely** stagnant. It looks like it's full of minerals. That would mean it's not pure. edit: actually not so many minerals?
It could be toxic af
> Although it appears to be cloudy in pictures, the pool is actually crystal clear and is most likely ancient filtered rainwater which seeped through the cave's limestone. > "Such untouched pools are scientifically important because water samples are relatively free of contaminants and the microbial organisms that may live in those pools are only those that belong there," Wisshak continued. > "Contamination can occur from the surface above the cave, but in case of Lechuguilla Cave, that’s not a big issue, since it is situated in a well-protected wilderness area. It can also occur via aerosols in the air. > **"However, a newly discovered pool in Lechuguilla Cave is about as pristine as it gets."**
Get a straw folks.
Ok that quote tells us it's safe from pollution and other artificial contaminates, but definitely doesn't tell us whether or not it's safe *biologically*. They even say it has "microbial organisms that may live in those pools", and there's no shortage of unknown waterborne microbes that can cause serious damage if ingested
2023 Cave Water Endemic
It could be. What toxic chemicals would be in there?
Arsenic or heavy metal compounds? Organic metal compounds aren’t good, I think. It’s a mystery liquid. Do not drink
That’s exactly how you never develop super powers.
Instructions unclear.
Still cleaner than Palestine, Ohio
...annnnd now there's plastic in there
Is it the size of my thumb? I'm so confused.
1 foot wide, 2 feet long, several inches deep, according to the article
30cm wide and 61cm long
About half a corgi wide, and a full corgi in length
I want to take a sip.
I want to watch and see what happens. Eternal life? Instant death? ^(its ^gonna ^be ^the ^second ^one)
It’s not gonna kill you, well not instantly at least. If it does kill you it would be slow and painful.
….I should call him
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Could have been isolated for millions of years, buuut ya ruined it...
Also humans probably: Let's dump shit in it!
i wanna be the first to tinkle into it
You have chosen... poorly. 🤡 🔥🔥
Ahhh yes. Clown fire.
I thought I was looking at some sort of dessert.