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World's Oldest Rocks Found
Smivs writes "The BBC reports that Earth's most ancient rocks, with an age of 4.28 billion years, have been found on the shore of Hudson Bay, Canada. Writing in Science journal, a team reports finding that a sample of Nuvvuagittuq greenstone is 250 million years older than any rocks known. It may even hold evidence of activity by ancient life forms. If so, it would be the earliest evidence of life on Earth — but co-author Don Francis cautioned that this had not been established. 'The rocks contain a very special chemical signature — one that can only be found in rocks which are very, very old,' he said."
And you can see McCain's shadow stacking the layers...
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
They'll find proof I had first post!
No, but I did throw granola at a deaf person once
So, it smells like earth.
...I hear there are some rolling stones that are even older.
When asked for comment on what they intended to do with the rocks now that they had them, the lead researcher responded:
"Oh well, you know. Put them on a shelf. Maybe look at them from time to time. We might, when people come around to visit, take them down and let people not touch them! It's all terribly exciting... in fact, I think I need a lie-down."
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Fucking kids. Graffito-tagging anything. Who tagged it? Jesus.. I'm looking at you.
I record my sleeptalking
Here's a picture of world's oldest stones
Now all we have to find is the world's oldest hard places.
Because that is where those stones came from! McCain had kidney stones!
That's impossible! The earth is only 6000 years old!
You're right. It should have been: New "World's oldest rocks" found!
Laissez lire, et laissez danser; ces deux amusements ne feront jamais de mal au monde. - Voltaire
Pigs can fly. It derives from the "given sufficient thrust, anything can fly" postulate.
In the case of pigs, the trick will be designing the sabot to keep the pig from exiting the shell prior to firing while still releasing the pig after leaving the barrel.
As for budget and schedule, I'd say one farm-year (say ten man-months plus scrap) from concept to delivery.
He may know of older, you should ask.
For the world's scientists to calibrate their instruments for 6,000 years.
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I dated a rock once. Yeah, it was a hard relationship. Most of the time she was just stoned though.
Hey, bad puns. Don't take them for granite.
Yeah, I'll be here all night. (I really should learn to drink less or post as AC.)
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
'Cuz Sarah Palin told me the Earth is only 6,000 years old.
you could have broken the ice with her...
maybe she just likes laying around in the garden...
carbon dating your gf to find out her real age is not going to improve your relationship...
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Yeah, it just makes you look like a moraine.
It's a hoax. My priest says the oldest rocks can't be older than 10000 years. :p
"Sum Ergo Cogito"
Anyone that's been there would find that very hard to believe.
The difference between Canada and the USA is that in Canada healthcare is a right and gun ownership is a privilege.
The hydrogen atoms in my piss date back to the Big Bang.
Take that you silly rocks!
in fact it is almost inevitable there are older ones
And it is almost certain that we will find at least one of these older rocks. And it is almost inevitable that there will be older rocks than that. Therefore it is almost certain that the age of the earth is infinite!
Prov 9:8 Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you; rebuke the wise and they will love you.
I'm as old as the universe (since all my subatomic particles are the same age) but I can only reliably remember back only a week or two.