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Rock Fragment Found in Field Turns Out to Be Ancient 4.6-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite
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| 21 July 2021
| MICHELLE STARR
Posted on 07/21/2021 11:10:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
4.6 Billion,
Yes I feel Dizzy.
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posted on
07/21/2021 12:06:07 PM PDT
by
Big Red Badger
(Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
To: Big Red Badger
Looks like a piece of asphalt from the motorway................
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posted on
07/21/2021 12:07:26 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Looks like a piece of asphalt from the motorway................ You don't want to collide with a bolide.
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posted on
07/21/2021 12:09:26 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
To: Red Badger
A small fragment of rock found lying in a field in Gloucestershire in the UK may not have looked like much to the casual passerby, but it could contain vital information about the formation of the Solar System – and the origins of life itself. Or maybe not.
To: Sirius Lee
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posted on
07/21/2021 12:29:14 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Sirius Lee
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posted on
07/21/2021 12:30:22 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
“But the composition is different to anything you would find here on Earth and potentially unlike any other meteorites we’ve found – possibly containing some previously unknown chemistry or physical structure never before seen in other recorded meteorite samples.”
Oh, now that puts my mind at ease.../s
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posted on
07/21/2021 12:35:34 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Red Badger
They’re found lots of places. Ain’t no big thing. I have one.
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posted on
07/21/2021 12:36:36 PM PDT
by
bgill
(Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
To: tet68
I saw this in a movie...............It didn't end well............
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posted on
07/21/2021 12:38:05 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
around 4.6 billion years old Let's just make up numbers, shall we?
To: ryderann
Don’t be to sensitive. This usage has been around before PC wokers. The latter being an example of a made-up bad-grammar phrase.
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posted on
07/21/2021 12:53:43 PM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
To: Red Badger
The Crown has first dibs on this meteorite, the same when someone finds a cache of coins with a metal detector.
But, they have to pay the finder fair market value.
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posted on
07/21/2021 12:55:07 PM PDT
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(No masks necessary? I guess voting by mail will be eliminated for 2022 and 2024. Yippee!)
To: july4thfreedomfoundation
What is fair market value of a black rock?................
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posted on
07/21/2021 12:57:50 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
I don’t know....maybe compare it to similar meteorites and what they sold for on the open market?
From what I understand, meteorites are worth a nice chunk of change.
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posted on
07/21/2021 1:04:16 PM PDT
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(No masks necessary? I guess voting by mail will be eliminated for 2022 and 2024. Yippee!)
To: july4thfreedomfoundation
Some are. Some are just rocks................
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posted on
07/21/2021 1:04:56 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: All
“Carbonaceous chondrites” might be a good name for a rock band
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posted on
07/21/2021 1:12:44 PM PDT
by
SteveH
To: Red Badger
Just looking at the lyrics of “Taxman” I can hear Harrison tearing it up with his guitar part and solos...
To: Red Badger
“ancient 4.6-year-old meteorite”?!!!! 😯
Department of redundancy department… 😆
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posted on
07/21/2021 1:37:21 PM PDT
by
DJ Frisat
(If you're not black, your life apparently doesn't matter...)
To: DJ Frisat
oops. left out the billion… 🙄
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posted on
07/21/2021 1:38:35 PM PDT
by
DJ Frisat
(If you're not black, your life apparently doesn't matter...)
To: Red Badger
That’s because it did not form here on Earth, but hails from somewhere out past the orbit of Mars. Kicked out by gravitational interactions or a collision between asteroids, the fragment tumbled across the vastness of space to end up punching through our atmosphere to land on Earth as a meteorite.
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And that, my dear eleventh grade composition students, is an example of how to make some dull conjecture seem like facts. Just use exciting adjectives, adverbs and verbs to gloss over the phony-baloney assertions about age of the universe.
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