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Instant Earth, Just Add Dust Particles

Posted by michael on Tuesday September 3, 2002 @04:46AM from the buy-one-from-thinkgeek-today dept.

EvilSuggestions writes "Apparently, the estimate for how long it took for the Earth to form just got chopped in half. Now just a paltry 30 million years (which, IIRC, is less than one day on Carl Sagan's 1 year = the life of the universe calendar). So, adjust your terraforming plans appropriately. The good folks over at Science News have been following the gory details behind this conclusion."

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Crappy science by Caractacus+Potts · 2002-09-03 06:21 · Score: 3, Insightful

Looks like Science News is going the way of Scientific American. Yet another magazine I used to admire is getting watered down for the masses.
Let's see, two teams of researchers misusing the same radiodating technique get similar answers. Obviously, we can report that "researchers finally reach a consensus..." and state that the results are "clearly" definite.