End of an era: New ruling decides the boundaries of Earth's history

Wiley-Blackwell ^ | Sep 22, 2009 | Unknown.

[Larry Lucido]

How will this affect the age of the paleoconservatives?

[null and void]

Well! This finally proves evolution is a hoax! </GGG>

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-—FREE GONDWANALAND—!!

Reunite Pangea!

[SunkenCiv]

There have been other periods as well, and there are a variety of different conflicting models for what caused them. All of them have some glaring omission or insoluable problem, other than the one I’ve cooked up with some clear-cut help. :’)

[colorado tanker]

I'm aware of the snowball earth theory way, way back. It's just interesting scientists think the current cycle goes back 2.6 million years. I just shake my head that so many people in high places in government and academia think we can somehow change a pattern that's been around that long with some CO2 in the atmosphere. Obviously, something else has been driving this.

[SunkenCiv]

• When have Ice Ages occurred?

[coconutt2000]

It wasn’t really a particle. I’m not sure it was a singularity either. It may not have been a big bang either.

Probably best if we just give it a name... “Bob”. We’ll call the phenomena that resulted in the origination of the Universe (which probably isn’t really a Universe), we’ll call it “Bob”.

Some may refer to this non-particle as the Bob-particle because of the possible particle-like characteristics it may have exhibited just prior to the creation of time and space. Others may refer to it as the Bob-singularity, because of the similarities such a phenomena may have had to a singularity just prior to the creation and expansion of time and space into the dimensions we currently recognize as the Universe. Some may refer to this instance of the Universe in the Multiverse as the Bob-verse.

In any case, in the beginning there was Bob, and moments later there was everything else.

[colorado tanker]

Doing some googling indicates that this period began with the joining of North and South America, closing the Isthmus of Panama and radically altering ocean currents.

[colorado tanker]

These two sources say four major ice ages in earth history, with the present age going back to at least the beginning of the Quaternary.

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/ice_ages/when_ice_ages.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age#Major_ice_ages

[null and void]

So all we need to do is remove Nicaragua from the face of the earth and all will be well?

[Varda]

“covers both the ice age and moment early man first started to use tools”

This is an odd description. I thought it was simply the Pleistocene + the Holocene.

[colorado tanker]

So all we need to do is remove Nicaragua from the face of the earth and all will be well?

Ya know, removing the Isthmus is probably the only piece of terraforming our technology is capable of. But, as a strong believer in the law of unanticipated consequences, I think we just ought to stick with the status quo. :-))

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