Posted on 10/24/2023 10:39:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
Wow. That really changes my worldview and how I intend to spend the remaining days of my life.
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Hillary’s gynecologists said the same thing.
This changes everything!
They made a mistake when they said it was 4,420,000,000 years old...
Some us were sure it was at least 4,465,000,000 years and 6 minutes and 31 seconds old...
Now they’ve almost got it correct at 4,460,000,000 years old...
Eventually they will get it absolutely correct...
> Research, which also involved the University of Glasgow, now puts that age at approximately 4.46 billion years. <
Just my luck. I had 4.47 billion years in the office pool.
Lol. It’s all conjecture. Or just a rounding error.
Appearance of patches of green mold?
Wow, the Moon looks young for its age. I would have guessed not a day over 4 billion.
A point of interest, the moon’s age, but is it really worth spending lots of grant dollars to find out?
The science is settled.
We have consensus...................
Moldy green cheese alert!
I don’t mind if they change their thinking on things like the age of moon, age of the universe, or certain things about evolution. The attitude is always “We’ve learned more, and now we believe this”. Fine.
But I don’t think they can play that particular game and also try to shout people down for
“questioning the science”. About COVID. About Climate Change. And evolution. Hey, quite often the scientists DON’T know what they’re talking about. But they hate it when you show a bit of doubt about their latest pronouncement.
Don’t be too hasty.
These samples of moon dust were collected from a fairly small area.
The moon is much denser on one side as compared to the other.
I have considered this to be evidence for the Giant Impact event as a glancing blow that preserved a large portion of the impacting object that formed nucleus of the moon.
This nucleus may be much older than the post impact part of the moon.
The denser part of the moon would because of gravitational attraction be the part of the moon that would be tidally locked to Earth.
The Earth facing part of the moon is where the moon landings took place so that the astronauts could remain in contact with Earth.
Until the study looks at samples from the far side of the moon I think they should refrain from making revisions to the age of the moon.
Almost my age 😂
40 million years is more than a rounding error.
Remember that next time somebody says to follow the science.
It might be worth millions of grant dollars to find out how old the moon is but in this case they are paid to estimate something slightly different than the previous estimate and which is still far from any certainty. I still believe that most things that say “scientists” actually refer to graduate students and most conjectures called a “study” are basically term papers. Proof of this is that they are only mentioned once.
These scientists must work for the Treasury Department..............
They’re 40 million years off, but...
They can tell us when the temperature is gonna be too hot to sustain life on Earf.
40 million years, an eyeblink in cosmological time. What we know for fairly certain is that the moon was created sometime between the initial formation of the earth about 4.5 billion years ago and the late heavy bombardment about 4.1 billion years ago.
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