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@taniwharugby said in Science!:
@jegga well yea of course and yes that was how he was caught...some of the tech was created by a kiwi Chick in the US.
I didn’t know about the kiwi chick, that’s pretty cool
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Probably can go in here...
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@taniwharugby didn't see that on river monsters! Stink.
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@taniwharugby said in Science!:
Probably can go in here...
That’s sad . Those huge freshwater stingrays will probably be next
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This is bloody interesting...
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12299751
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I always struggle to comprehend this, makes my head hurt
We analysed the amounts of lead and uranium isotopes in these crystals using mass spectrometry, and found their clocks had been reset 2.229 billion years ago (give or take five million years). That’s when we realised Yarrabubba coincided with a major change in Earth’s climate.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/118950798/how-the-worlds-oldest-asteroid-thawed-earth
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@taniwharugby haha yea, timescales like that are too hard for my brain to comprehend
Like that ones about one type of dinosaur being closer in time to us than another type of dinosaur.
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@mariner4life said in Science!:
@taniwharugby haha yea, timescales like that are too hard for my brain to comprehend
Like that ones about one type of dinosaur being closer in time to us than another type of dinosaur.
Yeah dinosaurs existed from 240m years ago to 60m years ago.
So front end dinos existed 180m before the last ones, only 60m years ago.
Only a tiny fraction of the 4.5 billion years earth has existed, or 3.5b years of life.
On a similar note the mammoths and pyramids one gets me.
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@mariner4life said in Science!:
@taniwharugby haha yea, timescales like that are too hard for my brain to comprehend
Like that ones about one type of dinosaur being closer in time to us than another type of dinosaur.
Yeah dinosaurs existed from 240m years ago to 60m years ago.
So front end dinos existed 180m before the last ones, only 60m years ago.
Only a tiny fraction of the 4.5 billion years earth has existed, or 3.5b years of life.
On a similar note the mammoths and pyramids one gets me.
What the Mammoths/Pyramids one?
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@mariner4life said in Science!:
@taniwharugby haha yea, timescales like that are too hard for my brain to comprehend
Like that ones about one type of dinosaur being closer in time to us than another type of dinosaur.
Yeah dinosaurs existed from 240m years ago to 60m years ago.
So front end dinos existed 180m before the last ones, only 60m years ago.
Only a tiny fraction of the 4.5 billion years earth has existed, or 3.5b years of life.
On a similar note the mammoths and pyramids one gets me.
one i read the other day was that the founding of Cambridge University predates the Aztec empire. Which, while not of the same mind-bending time scale, still surprised me
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@mariner4life said in Science!:
@taniwharugby haha yea, timescales like that are too hard for my brain to comprehend
Like that ones about one type of dinosaur being closer in time to us than another type of dinosaur.
Yeah dinosaurs existed from 240m years ago to 60m years ago.
So front end dinos existed 180m before the last ones, only 60m years ago.
Only a tiny fraction of the 4.5 billion years earth has existed, or 3.5b years of life.
On a similar note the mammoths and pyramids one gets me.
What the Mammoths/Pyramids one?
https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/science/mammother-unearthed-facts.aspx
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@mariner4life said in Science!:
@taniwharugby haha yea, timescales like that are too hard for my brain to comprehend
Like that ones about one type of dinosaur being closer in time to us than another type of dinosaur.
Yeah dinosaurs existed from 240m years ago to 60m years ago.
So front end dinos existed 180m before the last ones, only 60m years ago.
Only a tiny fraction of the 4.5 billion years earth has existed, or 3.5b years of life.
On a similar note the mammoths and pyramids one gets me.
What the Mammoths/Pyramids one?
https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/science/mammother-unearthed-facts.aspx
Melting permafrost has made it easier to harvest their ivory
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@mariner4life said in Science!:
@mariner4life said in Science!:
@taniwharugby haha yea, timescales like that are too hard for my brain to comprehend
Like that ones about one type of dinosaur being closer in time to us than another type of dinosaur.
Yeah dinosaurs existed from 240m years ago to 60m years ago.
So front end dinos existed 180m before the last ones, only 60m years ago.
Only a tiny fraction of the 4.5 billion years earth has existed, or 3.5b years of life.
On a similar note the mammoths and pyramids one gets me.
one i read the other day was that the founding of Cambridge University predates the Aztec empire. Which, while not of the same mind-bending time scale, still surprised me
The last widow of a US civil war veteran died in 2008 , surprised me to find that out .
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Yeah I still struggle to understand how they can say this happened so many billion years back, when, well, billions of years...yeah yeah, science, but still...guess its easier whan you have such a big window 2.229 billion years, margin of error of 5 million...pfft.
@booboo also time, in terms of light years, some more staggering numbers
A light-year is a measurement of distance and not time (as the name might suggest). A light-year is the distance a beam of light travels in a single Earth year, or 6 trillion miles (9.7 trillion kilometers).
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@taniwharugby said in Science!:
Yeah I still struggle to understand how they can say this happened so many billion years back, when, well, billions of years...yeah yeah, science, but still...guess its easier whan you have such a big window 2.229 billion years, margin of error of 5 million...pfft.
@booboo also time, in terms of light years, some more staggering numbers
A light-year is a measurement of distance and not time (as the name might suggest). A light-year is the distance a beam of light travels in a single Earth year, or 6 trillion miles (9.7 trillion kilometers).
It's likely to be a somewhat more accurate estimate of Earth's age than Bishop Ussher's