Team finds Earth's 'oldest rocks'

[DonnieW]

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[SIZE=2]Call me a skeptic, but I don't think these guys have a clue how old any of this shit it. These guys are getting "excited" because they figure they've found something that is hundreds of millions of years older than they knew previously. Sheeet, there are cigars we can't even figure out when were made, let alone where. But hey, if it makes these guys happy, good for them.[/SIZE]

I'm gonna go sit on the 4 billion year old rock and smoke the oldest cigar I have.

[rsamos]

Originally Posted by DonnieW

[SIZE=2]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7636708.stm[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=2]Call me a skeptic, but I don't think these guys have a clue how old any of this shit it. These guys are getting "excited" because they figure they've found something that is hundreds of millions of years older than they knew previously. Sheeet, there are cigars we can't even figure out when were made, let alone where. But hey, if it makes these guys happy, good for them.[/SIZE]

I'm gonna go sit on the 4 billion year old rock and smoke the oldest cigar I have.

You mean you don't have the Poh-peal home carbon dating kit?

[rack04]

Originally Posted by DonnieW

[SIZE=2]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7636708.stm[/SIZE]

[SIZE=2]Call me a skeptic, but I don't think these guys have a clue how old any of this shit it. These guys are getting "excited" because they figure they've found something that is hundreds of millions of years older than they knew previously. Sheeet, there are cigars we can't even figure out when were made, let alone where. But hey, if it makes these guys happy, good for them.[/SIZE]

I'm gonna go sit on the 4 billion year old rock and smoke the oldest cigar I have.

Since this isn't in the jokes forum I'll assume you're being serious. Geology is a very precise science, not to be compared to determining the age of cigars. Geologists use scanning electron microscopy on samples to study of how materials, structures, processes and organisms have changed over time.

[DonnieW]

Originally Posted by rack04

Since this isn't in the jokes forum I'll assume you're being serious. Geology is a very precise science, not to be compared to determining the age of cigars. Geologists use scanning electron microscopy on samples to study of how materials, structures, processes and organisms have changed over time.

It was tongue-in-cheek

It is a precise science, I guess I still laugh about it because they throw around millions of years like its nothing.

[freakygar]

Darn! Based on the thread title I thought Sailor passed his stones!

[TheTraveler]

Originally Posted by ahc4353

Darn! Based on the thread title I thought Sailor passed his stones!

ZING!

Don't pick on salty dogs - they get mean when they're riled up!

[billhud]

Originally Posted by rack04

Geology is a very precise science, ....

I have a degree in Geology. Geology uses the scientific method and often uses very precise tools when and where it can, but it is not "a very precise science". Hence its continual changes, particularly over the last sixty years.

[billhud]

Originally Posted by DonnieW

It was tongue-in-cheek

..... guess I still laugh about it because they throw around millions of years like its nothing.

When you're speaking of 4.5+ billion years, a few or several million is "nothing".

[parafumar]

that would make a nice countertop...