The Oldest Known Material on Earth Is Officially Older Than The Solar System

www.sciencealert.com ^ | 13 JAN 2020 | MICHELLE STARR

[Red Badger]

Old Stuff Ping!....................

[Delta 21]

Next you will try to tell me that crude oil is the result of decayed and compressed dinosaurs.

Just not buying it.

[ClearCase_guy]

Son, this is the most amazing thing I've ever heard of, and I'm older than dirt the Murchison meteorite.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

helium-3 and neon-21 dating...cool. I was wondering how they can measure the age of such old rocks.

[SunkenCiv]

It sure feels that way some mornings.

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[Red Badger]

It’s not. It comes from decayed and compressed methane.................

[neverevergiveup]

I used to think about how lucky we are to live on Earth during a time of relative stability on our planet, in our solar system, and in our galaxy. Now I realize that we are alive now because it is a time of relative stability on our planet, in our solar system, and in our galaxy.

[SunkenCiv]

helium-3 and neon-21 dating... sounds like a Tinder-style site for scientists.

[Red Badger]

A passing star could destroy it all......................

[neverevergiveup]

Yes..

[Larry Lucido]

The material in the solar system is older than the solar system.

The material in my car is older than my car.

[Bubba_Leroy]

All elements on Earth, with the exception of helium, are older than the solar system. Hydrogen has been around since the Big Bang. Our sun creates helium out of hydrogen. All other elements were created somewhere else, either in much older stars or the Big Bang.

[Red Badger]

The material in my refrigerator is older than the Universe.................

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Those scientists can use these great icebreakers at the Tinder Bar & Grill...

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A chemist walks into a pharmacy and asks the pharmacist, “Do you have any acetylsalicylic acid?”

“You mean aspirin?” asked the pharmacist.

“That’s it! I can never remember that word.”

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A physicist, a biologist, and a chemist were going to the ocean for the first time. The physicist saw the ocean and was fascinated by the waves. He said he wanted to do some research on the fluid dynamics of the waves and walked into the ocean. He drowned and never returned.

The biologist said he wanted to do research on the flora and fauna inside the ocean and walked inside the ocean. He, too, never returned.

The chemist waited for a long time and afterwards, wrote the observation, “The physicist and the biologist are soluble in ocean water.”

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Q: What is the fastest way to determine the sex of a chromosome?

A: Pull down its genes.

[Grimmy]

A song for us old guys

Rainstorm in My Knees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqPstbN42Jk

[Bratch]

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"I compare this with putting out a bucket in a rainstorm. Assuming the rainfall is constant, the amount of water that accumulates in the bucket tells you how long it was exposed."

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[1Old Pro]

It's just mind-blowing to think of everything those tiny specks must have passed through before landing here on Earth.

We also know they didn't have TV News back then from these findings, because if we did and the particles had to listen to 5+ million years of that crap they would have offed themselves prior to landing here.

[blam]

"Next you will try to tell me that crude oil is the result of decayed and compressed dinosaurs."

Nah. God made it 4 thousand years ago.(s)

[tet68]

The material in my refrigerator is older than the Universe.................Some of it is probably alive too.