To: SunkenCiv
"Between 50,000 and 3,000 years before present (BP) "
WTF is "before present (BP)"?
It must be the politically correct/atheist version of "BC", Before Christ. I guess "AD" is now just "P", for Present.
Or maybe "BP" could stand for "Bowing President", huh?
7 posted on
05/22/2010 7:54:54 AM PDT by
FrankR
(Standing against tyranny must start somewhere, or the future belongs to the tyrants.)
To: FrankR
Before present is just a geologic time measurement term that lays out the years linearly. I doubt it has any other connotations. Just that it’s easy to count back from 0.
BUT — It’s possible the liberals did it ... but it might be one thing that makes stuff simpler for science, worldwide.
8 posted on
05/22/2010 7:58:19 AM PDT by
Tarpon
(Obama-Speak ... the fusion of sophistry and Newspeak. It's not a gift, it's just lies.)
To: FrankR; SunkenCiv; blam; Coyoteman; All
I may be remembering this wrong, but I think BP which means Before Present, not British Petroleum in this context, counts back from 1950. After this date carbon 14 dating ran into difficulties because of Atomic Bomb effects and other nuclear radiation. So 100 years BP would be 1850 if I am correct.
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