Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
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Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
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Re: Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
#2> Oxygen levels run at roughly half of what our lungs expect. Carbon dioxide is present at concentrations enormously higher than in the outside atmosphere. The air is laced with hydrogen sulfide, the compound responsible for the smell of rotten eggs, and with methane and ammonia.
So it was not truly sealed. A truly sealed cave would have had no oxygen, it would have all been consumed in reactions with methane.
Re: Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
#3Interesting that being sealed for 5 million years did not yield any life forms more complex than insects.
Maybe sun and space are importance factors for intelligence.
Re: Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
#4> Oxygen levels run at roughly half of what our lungs expect. Carbon dioxide is present at concentrations enormously higher than in the outside atmosphere. The air is laced with hydrogen sulfide, the compound responsible for the smell of rotten eggs, and with methane and ammonia. So it was not truly sealed. A truly sealed cave would have had no oxygen, it would have all been consumed in reactions with methane.
Yeah it has significant groundwater inflow (like 5L/s). Nothing about this is sealed.
Re: Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
#5> Oxygen levels run at roughly half of what our lungs expect. Carbon dioxide is present at concentrations enormously higher than in the outside atmosphere. The air is laced with hydrogen sulfide, the compound responsible for the smell of rotten eggs, and with methane and ammonia. So it was not truly sealed. A truly sealed cave would have had no oxygen, it would have all been consumed in reactions with methane.
Yeah it has significant groundwater inflow (like 5L/s). Nothing about this is sealed.
>Yeah it has significant groundwater inflow (like 5L/s).
where did it say this? i did a double-take because the article says the opposite, and i checked the wikipedia and didnt see it there either. is there another source of info? or am i being blind?
Re: Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
#6Just because the cave is sealed now, does not mean it has been sealed for millions of years. Even for geology, 5.5M years is a long time. I don't understand how they can claim it never had connections to the outside, just because it doesn't have connections now.
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#7Interesting that being sealed for 5 million years did not yield any life forms more complex than insects. Maybe sun and space are importance factors for intelligence.
the sun is energy so i’d expect there to be a correlation there.
Re: Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
#8Does anyone have the original source of this information? This article seems to be AI generated:
https://www.pangram.com/history/fdf6dfd6-1a9c-4267-a90c-a3cf...
Re: Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
#9> Oxygen levels run at roughly half of what our lungs expect. Carbon dioxide is present at concentrations enormously higher than in the outside atmosphere. The air is laced with hydrogen sulfide, the compound responsible for the smell of rotten eggs, and with methane and ammonia. So it was not truly sealed. A truly sealed cave would have had no oxygen, it would have all been consumed in reactions with methane.
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Re: Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
#10Does anyone have the original source of this information? This article seems to be AI generated: https://www.pangram.com/history/fdf6dfd6-1a9c-4267-a90c-a3cf...
while looking at the wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movile_Cave), this popped up from 2015 from bbc earth: https://web.archive.org/web/20210531110415/https://www.bbc.c...