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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."

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  1. Re:Give or take a few eon's. by Breakfast+Pants · · Score: -1, Troll

    They don't have a copy of God's diary, but they are going on word of mouth from G. W. Bush.

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    WHO ATE MY BREAKFAST PANTS?
  2. Margin of Error by uselessengineer · · Score: -1, Troll
    -- to 4,568 million years ago, within a range of about 2,080,000 years.

    And i was born 22 years ago, within a range of 10 years

    Pretty big error (almost 50%)

  3. Re:Another article just the same by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I was probably like any other fifteen year old when I was growing up, seemingly aways having to fight off a hard-on. Maybe it was hormones, maybe it was because I was still a virgin, but my almost daily jack-off sessions didn't seem to help much. I still wanted to experience the feeling of my dick actually plunging into some beautiful young girl's tight, wet cunt. Hell, she didn't even have to be all that beautiful!

    This feeling was driving me crazy. I HAD to have me a piece of ass soon, or I was simply gonna explode! I just couldn't keep out the thoughts of some young girl's pointed, jiggling tits slipping between my lips while my dick plowed between her moist slit.

    My imagination, summer bikinis, and dad's PENTHOUSEs helped me to fill out my favorite fantasies of what the girls in my classes looked like naked. Those vivid images of beautiful, naked young girls coming into my room looking at my dick with lust, or my plopping them down on a desk right there in school and fucking our brains out seemed to dominate my every waking moment. Hell, even my nights were filled with wet dreams of these nubile young girls offering their naked bodies to me on sight!

    The truth was I had never even seen a live naked girl since I was about seven-years-old playing doctor with a neigbor girl. Even then I didn't know what it was all about, just that my little dick got hard when I touched her bare pussy and that it felt REAL GOOD when she touched my hard dick. 'If only I new then what I know now,' I thought. Furthermore, I was much too shy to even approach a girl my age to ask for a date, much less to ask for a piece of ass or a blowjob.

    I was sitting under a tree fretting about all of this one summer day, when I was startled by the voice of a young neighbor girl who had walked up behind me.

    "What are you doing out here all by yourself?"

    Jamie Lynn Spears was a typical eleven-year-old, her body just beginning to show the first signs of maturing into an hourglass shape, but she still was flat-chested. Her personality had definitely not matured, and I even cosidered her to be quite a brat.

    "Nothing much, just moping around," I told her.

    "What's wrong?" she asked in a soft tone, touching my knee as she sat down beside me on the ground, her small skirt riding up her smooth legs.

    I had never looked at her in a sexual way before, but the combination of my frustration and her uncharacteristic soft-spoken manner caused me to take a second look at her. She was actually a very pretty young girl, with long dark brown hair that flowed down onto her flat, preteen chest. Her innocent dark brown eyes looked deeply into mine as she pondered my troubles, and I began to get an idea on how I might exploit this budding motherly instinct of hers.

    "Well , it's just that a lot of the other guys my age have dated girls already," I began, "some of them have even had sex."

    I paused to check her reaction. She was still sitting there looking at me intently, her knees pulled up near her chest and her arms draped around them casually leaving her skirt to gape open under her legs. I was sure that anyone passing by would be able to see her panties, but she didn't seem to be aware of her immodest pose.

    "I'm just too shy to ask anyone out, though. I guess I'll never have the guts to either."

    She sat there silently, bending her head down and resting her chin on her knees. She seemed to be in thought as she began to stare blankly at the ground in front of her, possibly wondering about her own lack of boyfriends and whether she too would ever have the experience of having sex one day.

    "Have you ever wondered what it's like to have sex?" I asked her, hoping to guide the situation into a possible encounter.

    She looked at me momentarily to see if I was sincere, or just trying to poke fun at her before answering.

    "Well ., yeah ., sometimes ., but nobody really likes me much around here. All of the

  4. Move Right Along by Braxton_the_Covenant · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nothing to see here. It is not like the radiometric dating methods are completely speculative and saddled with risky assumptions at all. These dates are solid! 4Ma + or - 2Ma... or maybe + or - 4Ma or 40 trillion years, it is not like we are guessing at all.

  5. According to to Huckabee, 5000 BC. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Unlike science, Gods word never changes.

    The flat earth is 5000 years old.

  6. Re:Give or take a few eon's. by professional_troll · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your god is a child murderer

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  7. Seriously... by Loibisch · · Score: 0, Troll

    Everytime I read something like this I cannot help but wonder how they claim to have figured it out. To me it always sounds like they're just making up yet another wild number to keep the funds flowing.

    Scientist #1: crap, it's evaluation in a week
    Scientist #2: so?
    Scientist #1: well, the people who are giving us all our money will want to know what we made of it and we have nothing to present
    Scientist #2: ah, well, let's just make up some wild number on how the universe is more or less exactly 4 billion years old...noone can really prove that wrong anyway...
    Scientist #1: hmm, this might just work...
    Scientist #2: and just to top it off we'll even admit we're wrong by a few million years...just so noone asks how we can be so sure
    Scientist #1: My dear Scientist #2, you are a genious! ...or something like that...