[decimon]

No, that's not Lucy in the sky.

[decimon]

Tote that barge ping.

[marron]

But she doesn’t look a day over nine. Ten million tops.

[Gaffer]

Do they mean the riverbed or the ‘river’....if it’s the ‘river’ that water would be mighty stale by now...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

They drilled a core into the Fox River near Green Bay and found 11 inches of wood pulp.

[Gaffer]

....Until recently the Amazon Fan, a sediment column of around 10 kilometres in thickness, proved a hard nut to crack, and scientific drilling expeditions such as Ocean Drilling Program could only reach a fraction of it. Recent exploration efforts by Petrobras lifted the veil, and sedimentological and paleontological analysis on samples from two boreholes, one of which 4.5 kilometres below sea floor, now permit an insight into the history of both Amazon River and Fan.......

Using only two points of data are what I call, in academic terms, grossly overexaggerated BS....

[devane617]

The bottom must be a mile deep in fish poop.

[LukeL]

I find this very very hard to believe. There may have been rivers in the Amazon Basin area for this amount of time, but the river itself probably wasn’t. Oxbow lakes and meanders can form very very quickly and it would be very unlikely that the entire river would remain unchanged for over 2 million years

[cripplecreek]

All I know is that I’m never swimming in it. I watch the show about fish in the Amazon.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Sarah Palin’s gonna have a very tough time explaining just who or what was swimming amid all those piranhas for the prior 10,996,000 years.

[exist]

I’m pretty sure there’s a sea monster in there somewhere.

[DallasMike]

Not true. It can’t be older than 6,000 years. Probably much younger, since it’s not even mentioned in Genesis.

[VirginiaConstitutionalist]

sedimentological and paleontological analysis on samples from two boreholes

What do Biden and Gore have to do with this?

[El Sordo]

Really old man river...