I took a bite of ice directly off of a glacier in Greenland. It tasted like blood- either I cut my mouth on the sharp ice somehow, or it contains high mineral content. Should be fine in a drink. A bit gimmicky but the UAE will love it.
‘Vast’ mass of microbes being released by melting glaciers
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Bacteria can fertilise ecosystems but need to be studied closely to identify potential pathogens, scientists say:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/17/microbes...
This is what is wrong with the world all in one thing.
The hubris of humankind astonishes me. We are getting what we deserve.
So much effort and energy wasted, not for a drink. It's not a better drink. It's for ego. That ice is solidified ego. It's like the people that eat endangered animal meat.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 49.1 ms ] threadNeat idea but have never bothered myself
Yes. But frozen for a thousand years, so harmless. /s
Glacial Ice Cores Reveal 15,000 Year Old Microbes: https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2021/09/01/glacial-ice-cor...
Bacteria species found in glacial ice could pose disease risk as glaciers melt from global warming: https://phys.org/news/2022-06-bacteria-species-glacial-ice-p...
‘Vast’ mass of microbes being released by melting glaciers This article is more than 1 year old Bacteria can fertilise ecosystems but need to be studied closely to identify potential pathogens, scientists say: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/17/microbes...
The hubris of humankind astonishes me. We are getting what we deserve.
So much effort and energy wasted, not for a drink. It's not a better drink. It's for ego. That ice is solidified ego. It's like the people that eat endangered animal meat.
The pitch was using empty ships that were going from Iceland to Denmark anyways.