Changes in Earth's crust triggered an explosion of life [tr]

Daily Mail ^ | 9/18/2017 | Tim Collins

[Mr. K]

"... oxygen in the atmosphere suddenly increased by about 10,000 times in just 200 million years.

Anything that takes 200 million years is not "suddenly"

[sparklite2]

The best cartoon-to-human matchup ever done.

[Huskrrrr]

What a great thread!

[fhayek]

“Drink more olivine!”

[HLPhat]

>>ROMANS 1...

...describes a natural process that unfolds when Natural Law is abominated.

XX + XX = FAIL

XY + XY = FAIL

XX + XY = Human

[SunkenCiv]

I’ve seen pictures, it’s neat. There are other olivine beaches in the Pacific, not surprising I guess, all volcanic islands of fairly recent origin. :^)

[Repeal 16-17]

So now the question becomes, what caused olivine to disappear?

That was my first thought after reading the part about olivine.

[free_life]

I have about a quarter baggie of that beach olivine. Meteorites can have olivine and have a few of those too, and bags of Peridot. Yet none of it has disappeared.

[Cronos]

These were not Goths:

1. Vandals were an East Germanic tribes and Alans were the Alani - descendants of Sarmatians - they were Irani speakers and ancestors of today's Ossetians
2. Suevians - not Goths
3. Visigoths - well yeah, Goths :)
4. Alans - again, an Irani tribe
5. Burgundians - related to VAndals, not Goths
6. Franks -- a west German tribe, not Goths
7. Britons - Celts, not even Germanic, forget about Goths -- or do you mean Angles and Saxons? Even those were not Goths
8. Huns - a Turkic or Finno-Magyar tribe, not even Indo-European, leave alone Germanic.
9. Lombards - another German tribe, not Goths
10. RAvenna -- that's a city in north-east Italy, not a tribe....

[dr_lew]

“Once on a star in a remote corner of the universe, some clever animals invented knowledge, but then the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die. One might invent such a fable, and still not sufficiently have illustrated, how X and Y, how aimless and arbitrary, the human intellect appears in nature. There have been eternities when it did not exist, and when it is gone, nothing will have happened.”

- The F-Meister

As you can see, my own memory is already eroding. Sad.

[Robert DeLong]

According to the article it disappeared. It does not say that it diminished in quantity. I’ll take your word for it though.

[JimSEA]

The photo of the olivine beach shows it is yet a component of lava. Just not a significant part of the crust anymore.

[left that other site]

I have attempted to reach it on a number of occaisions, but I was always WITH someone who chickened out at the thought of the 5 mile HIKE to get down there and back. Oh Well. Those days are over!

[SunkenCiv]

Doesn’t sound like that much fun to me, either — maybe a chopper (and I don’t care for those), or a zodiac boat?