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Solar System Date of Birth Determined
Invisible Pink Unicorn writes "UC Davis researchers have dated the earliest step in the formation of the solar system — when microscopic interstellar dust coalesced into mountain-sized chunks of rock — to 4,568 million years ago, within a range of about 2,080,000 years. In the second stage, mountain-sized masses grew quickly into about 20 Mars-sized planets and, in the third and final stage, these small planets smashed into each other in a series of giant collisions that left the planets we know today. The dates of these intermediary stages are well established. The article abstract is available from Astrophysical Journal Letters."
Of course it was. Even then, everything crashed on Mondays.
...to 4,568 million years ago, within a range of about 2,080,000 years.
Similarly, I've discovered my birthday to be defined as subsequent to July.
~ Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?
Yeesh, you people are so negative! The hint is right there in his username!
I need to know the calendar date so I can convince my boss it's a holiday. In fact, why don't we make it an international paid holiday?
Deltron 3030 - Virus (music video)
I doubt the Pope would like the news. It was a Wednesday.
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
to 4,568 million years ago, within a range of about 2,080,000 years
And on the seven hundred fifty-nine million seven hundred three thousand seven hundred seventy-third day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seven hundred fifty-nine million seven hundred three thousand seven hundred seventy-third day from all his work which he had made.
You just got troll'd!
This is good news! The Solar System has been bummed out lately 'cause it couldn't prove it's birthday to anyone. All of the other solar systems could get into the cool clubs, but not ours.
Now it's PARTY TIME and the drinks are on Sol!
-David
It's a fucking *long* time until Sunday then.
The cake is a pie
I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he's French-Canadian. For us, the comma is the decimal separator, so 4,568 million actually looks like "4.568" million -- whereas it actually is "4.568" billion.
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Of course, the next sentence shows 2,080,000 and that just completely ruins this
Nevermind.
Al
if you know the exact date' we can have a public holiday!
And then came Patch Tuesday...
You mean the universe didn't start on 01-01-1980?
There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
It's a shame they can't give us an exact date. That would be one hell of a birthday cake :-)
It has had a pretty good uptime since then.
This is not the funny you're looking for.
....isn't that far off then?
4568 million years vs. somewhere around 6000 yrs. That's only 6 orders of magnitude, I mean, really they're just ZEROES.
-Styopa