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Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by josemaria03(m): 5:59pm On Jun 05, 2013
Imagine a lake that's never been affected by climate change or any other man-made influences. Australian scientists say they have found just that—a 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 lake—one of the largest on North Stradbroke Island off the south Queensland coast, according to the AAP—is 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.

To reach its conclusion, the team studied the lake’s water quality, fossil pollen and algae, which team members then compared with photos taken of nearby areas on the island over the past 117 years.

Several other nearby former lakes have dried up over the past 40 years due to climate change, Barr noted. In fact, Barr's team was on North Stradbroke to study the effects of those former bodies of water when his team stumbled across the anomaly that is Blue Lake.

The lake’s water has remained unchanged, said Barr, because its waters drain into a nearby swamp and are replaced by an aquifer every 35 days or so.

"Because it's constantly being updated it doesn't suffer from the vagaries of the climate in so far as it doesn't evaporate and become more saline," Barr told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. "It doesn't fill up and become fresher. It just remains constant."

Barr said something as small as sunscreen samples from tourists could alter the lake’s chemistry.


http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/scientists-uncover-remote-lake-untouched-pollution-7-500-190246166.html

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Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by josemaria03(m): 9:55am On Jun 06, 2013
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Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by kandiikane(m): 10:55pm On Jun 06, 2013
Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by ril19(m): 10:56pm On Jun 06, 2013
jonzin sayentiss dem

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Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by Nobody: 10:57pm On Jun 06, 2013
Lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooooo!


Please when will they discover God's sh!thole (Nigeria)?

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Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by DsureHouz(m): 10:57pm On Jun 06, 2013
No, It is Gods latrine... Rubbish

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Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by yuzedo: 10:58pm On Jun 06, 2013
Huh?! Dis loooook like my swiming pull in side my Banana ice land man shun na. undecided or did my MOPOL allowe dis poeple to enter & snap piture wen am eatin dodo + tea wit fashala?! angry

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Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by otijah(m): 10:58pm On Jun 06, 2013
RUBBISH!!
Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by Nobody: 10:59pm On Jun 06, 2013
Now that its discovered, it will definitely be affected by man-made resort.

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Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by otijah(m): 10:59pm On Jun 06, 2013
yuzedo: Huh?! Dis loooook like my swiming pull in side my Banana ice land man shun na. undecided or did my MOPOL allowe dis poeple to enter & snap piture wen am eatin dodo + tea wit fashala?! angry
seriously u need prayers

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Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by rxhush: 11:00pm On Jun 06, 2013
na wa o
Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by nnanyereugo(m): 11:00pm On Jun 06, 2013
Oyibo wit dia yeye bliv sef, u jst concludd on mare assumptn. Mtchewwww

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Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by Qudus94(m): 11:00pm On Jun 06, 2013
Haha ''God's bathtub inded''
Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by Nobody: 11:01pm On Jun 06, 2013
I'm still waiting for them to discover God's favorite food cool cool
something tells me it's okpa undecided

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Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by ril19(m): 11:02pm On Jun 06, 2013
jonzin sayyentiss dem........ "God bathtub ni God bathtub kor.

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Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by ZN2: 11:02pm On Jun 06, 2013
How do these people come up with these names?
Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by Pstsmith(m): 11:05pm On Jun 06, 2013
God does not bath...........this guys shud myn wat they say
Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by bobthebuilder99(m): 11:05pm On Jun 06, 2013
Jesus would turn that lake into palm wine, chop down a few trees and turn them into bread and fish.
Mmmmm...sounds like a party!

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Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by babaowo: 11:07pm On Jun 06, 2013
joeydozzy: I'm still waiting for them to discover God's favorite food cool cool
something tells me it's okpa undecided
... see your mouth like okpa, his real food is garri and kulikuli,try and google it.....

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Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by Hyelnatz(m): 11:08pm On Jun 06, 2013
;DNice, but cant seem to wrap my mind around d name
Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by kandiikane(m): 11:10pm On Jun 06, 2013
Texas.Cowgirl:
Lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooooo!


Please when will they discover God's sh!thole (Nigeria)?

Lmfao! grin
Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by Nobody: 11:10pm On Jun 06, 2013
God
Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by Sundex70: 11:12pm On Jun 06, 2013
Dis is absolutely amazin!

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Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by johnwizey: 11:12pm On Jun 06, 2013
Ha ha ha, dis ppl no go kill ♍ƺ o
Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by horlajide: 11:15pm On Jun 06, 2013
God's bath tub! Interesting!!! Means if they look around they are prolly gonna find his sponge-case and towel, maybe his shower cap too!!!

yuzedo: Huh?! Dis loooook like my swiming pull in side my Banana ice land man shun na. undecided or did my MOPOL allowe dis poeple to enter & snap piture wen am eatin dodo + tea wit fashala?! angry

How you escaped from Yabaleft still amazes me!!!!

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Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by baby124: 11:18pm On Jun 06, 2013
Not what i was expecting at all. The picture in my mind was a heavenly bathtub made of gold and adorned with all the precious stones in the world. looool. These people undecided angry.

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Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by free2ryhme: 11:18pm On Jun 06, 2013
Mother nature bathtub
Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by alaoeri: 11:22pm On Jun 06, 2013
Afterall scientists believe in the existence of God, where's Logicboy?
Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by cecegorz(m): 11:26pm On Jun 06, 2013
Now that they have discovered it, in a few years time, we will be talking about Paradise lost!
I'm sure we may have a couple of them in Nigeria, nobody ever enters our massive forests to see what we have in there.

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Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by Codedrock(m): 11:27pm On Jun 06, 2013
Whats all this crappy tins nowadays? They make no sense!
Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by bobthebuilder99(m): 11:28pm On Jun 06, 2013
baby_123: Not what i was expecting at all. The picture in my mind was a heavenly bathtub made of gold and adorned with all the precious stones in the world. looool. These people undecided angry.

Do you think if they found a lake filled with gold and surrounded by jewels that they would tell anybody?

They would keep quiet and next thing you know they would be on the Forbes list for 'private investments'.

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Re: Scientist Uncover "God's Bathtub" In Australia by elbinmanny(m): 11:29pm On Jun 06, 2013
Texas.Cowgirl:
Lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooooo!


Please when will they discover God's sh!thole (Nigeria)?
excessive use of postinor2 has greatly reduced your sense of reasoning sad

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