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Scientist finds 100 million-year-old bee
Associated Press ^
| 10/30/06
Posted on 10/30/2006 8:19:35 AM PST by presidio9
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10/30/2006 8:19:36 AM PST
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presidio9
To: presidio9
I wish there was a photo.
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posted on
10/30/2006 8:22:09 AM PST
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stm
(Katherine Harris for US Senate!)
To: stm
I wish Dr. Poinar would stick to mosquitos and other blood-sucking insects, so we can get our hands on some dino-DNA and commence the cloning of T-rexes already. Why is it so hard for the nerd to understand and give the people what they want???
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10/30/2006 8:24:37 AM PST
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presidio9
(Make Mohammed's day: Shoot a nun in the back.)
To: Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro; dead; Froufrou
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posted on
10/30/2006 8:25:35 AM PST
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presidio9
(Make Mohammed's day: Shoot a nun in the back.)
To: presidio9
Now that's pretty cool looking.
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posted on
10/30/2006 8:25:38 AM PST
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stm
(Katherine Harris for US Senate!)
To: presidio9
"Amber, a translucent semiprecious stone, is a substance that begins as tree resin." Never unserstood this part...how does tree sap (from an organic process) become a stone?
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posted on
10/30/2006 8:26:18 AM PST
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patriot_wes
(Pray for the peace of Jerusalem - may they prosper who love thee...Ps 122:6)
To: presidio9
Creating quite a "buzz" in the scientific community.
To: patriot_wes
Coal is also from an organic process, as is limestone.
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posted on
10/30/2006 8:27:13 AM PST
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presidio9
(Make Mohammed's day: Shoot a nun in the back.)
To: presidio9; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; SandyInSeattle; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
Scientist finds 100 million-year-old beeA bee-dance pattern found in the amber was decyphered to read "You damn kids stay off of my lawn!"
To: presidio9
"To Bee or not To Bee"!
I don't see any diverse license! So who knows how old this bug could bee!
To: presidio9
I would really like to know how these scientists determine how something is a million years old.
What is the difference between determining if the bee is a million years old or a half a million? what about a million and a half? what bee criteria do they use?
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posted on
10/30/2006 8:33:20 AM PST
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TaraP
To: Young Werther
I don't see any diverse license! So who knows how old this bug could bee!Beecuz he does have a license.
It's a class Bee.
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posted on
10/30/2006 8:33:29 AM PST
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Lazamataz
(I love you.... but not in a gay way.)
To: TaraP
I would really like to know how these scientists determine how something is a million years old. Simple.
If it remembers Helen Thomas as a child, it is a million years old.
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posted on
10/30/2006 8:34:19 AM PST
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Lazamataz
(I love you.... but not in a gay way.)
To: Lazamataz
Your stinging puns are beeginning to give me hives.
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10/30/2006 8:34:37 AM PST
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presidio9
(Make Mohammed's day: Shoot a nun in the back.)
To: Lazamataz
Haha..Now I understand the formula!...
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posted on
10/30/2006 8:40:31 AM PST
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TaraP
To: presidio9; Slings and Arrows
And it's still alive? :-P
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posted on
10/30/2006 8:41:48 AM PST
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
To: patriot_wes
It dries out and hardens. This keeps happening until what is left after the volatiles are gone is rock hard. Over 50 million years even the heavy volatiles evaporate. Also, there could be a setting up reaction like happens in concrete, polymer chains lengthen over time.
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posted on
10/30/2006 8:45:27 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: Lazamataz
Class Bee? Does that mean he can drive a Hog?
Vroom! Vroom!
To: presidio9
"...the ancient bee may help explain the rapid expansion and diversity of flowering plants during that time..."
All in all, this "discovery" doesn't give me the excitement it does these scientist, but the above statement did bring to mind an interesting mental picture. Gives new meaning to "busy bee."
To: Irish_Thatcherite
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10/30/2006 8:54:17 AM PST
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presidio9
(Make Mohammed's day: Shoot a nun in the back.)
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