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To: ETL
"BP" (Before Present) makes the most sense.

Except that every year it changes.

16 posted on 12/01/2015 4:39:20 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Fresh Wind
Re: "BP" (Before Present)

Except that every year it changes.

You're right. I was, for some reason, thinking about paleontology, which deals in millions of years. But even there, way down the line, or even with ice-age period stuff now, a thousand years, sometimes less, matters.

19 posted on 12/01/2015 4:49:06 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: Fresh Wind

“”BP” (Before Present) makes the most sense.
Except that every year it changes.”

Actually it doesn’t. Archaeology defines the present as 1950.


48 posted on 12/01/2015 3:54:25 PM PST by Varda
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