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Scientists find oldest piece of Earth
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Scientists find oldest piece of Earth
A piece of zircon found on a sheep ranch in western Australia has been dated as some 4.4 billion years old - almost as old as the 4.5 billion-year-old planet itself.

The tiny crystal was subjected to Uranium-Lead dating to determine its age. Then, to avoid the risk of a misleading date, the findings were confirmed via a seperate, independent dating method "known as atom-probe tomography that was able to identify individual atoms of lead in the crystal and determine their mass, and confirmed that the zircon was indeed 4.4 billion years old. "

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...Earth.html
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Scientists find oldest piece of Earth
Cue some creatard shrieking about 6,000 years in 5...4...3...2....1..........
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RE: Scientists find oldest piece of Earth
(February 24, 2014 at 11:43 am)Stimbo Wrote: A piece of zircon found on a sheep ranch in western Australia has been dated as some 4.4 billion years old - almost as old as the 4.5 billion-year-old planet itself.

The tiny crystal was subjected to Uranium-Lead dating to determine its age. Then, to avoid the risk of a misleading date, the findings were confirmed via a seperate, independent dating method "known as atom-probe tomography that was able to identify individual atoms of lead in the crystal and determine their mass, and confirmed that the zircon was indeed 4.4 billion years old. "

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...Earth.html

Also, scientists confirmed that it was really, really dusty.
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RE: Scientists find oldest piece of Earth
Pmsl!!

Well, it would be wouldn't it!
"Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken."
Sith code
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#5
RE: Scientists find oldest piece of Earth
So?

At the beginning of time God had a girlfriend and being a bit of a tight-arse he didn't buy her a real diamond.

No biggie (the Zircon that is).
Kuusi palaa, ja on viimeinen kerta kun annan vaimoni laittaa jouluvalot!
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RE: Scientists find oldest piece of Earth
Yeah. But carbon dating isn't reliable, so...
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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RE: Scientists find oldest piece of Earth
God put it there to test us.
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RE: Scientists find oldest piece of Earth
"Where you there!?"

ROFLOL
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RE: Scientists find oldest piece of Earth
(February 24, 2014 at 2:13 pm)ThePinsir Wrote: "Where you there!?"

ROFLOL

Yes. Yes, I was.

You can't prove I wasn't.
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RE: Scientists find oldest piece of Earth
I can. I was there and I didn't see you.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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