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Drop of ancient seawater rewrites Earth's history
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| August 1, 2019
| University of the Witwatersrand
Posted on 08/05/2019 8:20:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: Red Badger
Komati river near Barberton in Mpumalanga ............. Is that near Wakanda?😄.......... Funny! You can probably see Wakanda from there. :)
Mpumalanga is what the Eastern Transvaal was renamed after apartheid ended. Very beautiful area on the border of Swaziland; Kruger National Park is close to this town. I traveled there some years ago.
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/05/2019 9:16:18 AM PDT
by
momincombatboots
(Do you know anyone who isnÂ’t a socialist after 65? Freedom exchanged cash, a medicare card control.)
To: SunkenCiv
And if we believe THAT, they’ll tell us another one.
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posted on
08/05/2019 10:15:47 AM PDT
by
Tucker39
("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
To: SunkenCiv
When can we reunite Pangaea? Then we’ll really be able to take the train everywhere!
To: SunkenCiv
I have a feeling that these people have no idea what actual proof of something is.
If you add up all the uncertainties underlying claims of events said to happen hundreds of millions of years ago or more, they add up to north of 99%.
You can’t hand-wave accumulated uncertainty and declare the outcome to be a proof, not if you want to be taken seriously by serious people.
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posted on
08/05/2019 10:34:54 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
To: thoughtomator
have no idea what actual proof of something is
Right back at ya. And no, the word "proof" doesn't even occur in the article, which was written by a journalist.
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posted on
08/05/2019 10:46:37 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
But the word “proves” does occur, in the third sentence, and is the object of my criticism.
Failures in the acknowledgement of uncertainty turn science into cultism.
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posted on
08/05/2019 10:50:01 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
To: SunkenCiv
Komati river near Barberton in Mpumalanga What planet is this?
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posted on
08/05/2019 10:50:49 AM PDT
by
dead
(Liberals ruin everything.)
To: thoughtomator
Regardless, it's an article by a science journalist, not by the authors of the paper.
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posted on
08/05/2019 10:53:56 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: dead; Red Badger
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posted on
08/05/2019 10:58:54 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Given how frequent this practice is among science journalists, it’s amazing scientists don’t object and correct more often, don’t you think?
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posted on
08/05/2019 11:02:28 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
To: thoughtomator
No one buys your fake concern about the state of science, don't you get it?
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posted on
08/05/2019 11:06:29 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Seems there is more agreement here for my point of view on the matter than yours.
Count ‘em... if you can.
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posted on
08/05/2019 11:12:20 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
To: SunkenCiv
To: thoughtomator
Trolls in science topics? I don't count 'em, because they don't count.
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posted on
08/05/2019 11:25:36 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
put the cultish nonsense in Religion where it belongs and you can have your troll-free environment
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posted on
08/06/2019 5:43:57 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
To: thoughtomator
Ridiculous, since this is a science topic, and you are a troll.
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posted on
08/06/2019 8:19:16 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Ah yes, mysticism about things allegedly happening hundreds of years ago, with no possibility of experimental proof whatsoever, is “science”.
Take your religion and file it properly in the future and you won’t get pushback from people who know what science is.
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posted on
08/06/2019 10:24:47 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(... this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.)
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