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Mars Rock Older Than Thought
Rambo Tribble writes "The BBC reports on a finding, reported in Nature, (abstract), that the so-called 'Black Beauty' rock, discovered in the Sahara, is over twice as old as previously thought. The meteorite is now thought to be 4.4 billion years old, dating from a time in a nascent Mars' history that scientists are eager to know more about."
...it's older than thought itself!
But I didn't cotton to browsing /. in time to drop that gag, Anonymous Corduroy. I blame Satinic influence.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Does Mars exist in this universe? Yes. Is it traveling at relativistic speeds? No.
Therefore Mars and Earth time are similar if not the same.
Also, we can communicate with Curiosity fine, except for a delay due to distance.
What makes you so sure that "time" is the same on Mars as it is on Earth?
What makes you think they might not be?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
but 1st I gotta complete the Dr Who doodle over @ google.fr
Dude, my neighbor down the street is older than God.
His lawn is immaculate.
Timecube... duh
"...Older than thought". ...
Humans became a sentient species only recently, on the geological time scale.
So a rock being older that thought itself, is not so surprising.
Now, what was I just thinking about?
My head feels heavy, like a rock
Q: Why does a Mars rock taste better than an Earth rock?
A: Because it's a little meteor.
It took them how long to decide to cut it open and count the rings?
Have gnu, will travel.
"dating from a time in a nascent Mars' history that scientists are eager to know more about."
And there is a time in Mars' history that scientists are NOT eager to know more about?
I think we can all agree that there is no reason to look back at the '70s.
Yes, it does.
Excuse me, wtf r u doin?
Assuming you are talking about time dilation, they are not going NEARLY fast enough (even on the ISS) for even a very expensive watch to be noticeably out of sync. The time difference is so minute you'd need 2 atomic clocks to even be able to measure it (1 on earth, the other in space).
Time runs at different speeds at different points in space. The poster has a point. When astronauts return to earth their watches are slightly out of synch with clocks on earth
RELATIVITY DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY
The emphasized bit is correct, and another AC claimed "relativity does not work that way", which is incorrect, because relativity does work that way. Astronauts on the ISS experience a net dilation of 21 or so microseconds per day -- dilation of about 25 microseconds due to velocity relative to ground and compression of about 4 microseconds due to being higher up the gravity well. Over a 6-month stay, that would be about 4 milliseconds.
While that's probably well within the margin of error of any mechanical watch, GPS devices are a different story. They have rather accurate internal clocks, and relativistic errors are large enough that GPS satellites have to compensate for the discrepancy.
Excuse me, wtf r u doin?
To the many Murcans (including elected officials) that think that humans and dinosaurs co-existed 6,000 years ago, this revelation means nothing. I abhor the indifference. On another note, the Bible IS fiction.
Thank you for doing the math. The 2 atomic clocks would definitely work then.