[Dales]

Two hints.

1) This would be a very poor thread to choose to engage in flamewarring or flamebaiting.

2) It would be wrong to try to guess my position based on me posting this thread.

[Aracelis]

When the organisms die, their carbonate shells and skeletons settle to the ocean floor, where some dissolve and some are buried in sediments.

If the authors made this claim in their paper, they are mistaken. CaCO3 will dissolve below the CCD (carbonate compensation depth), thus in all but shallow regimes, calcareous remains are absent.

[Pietro]

So what's it gonna be?

Are we going to burn into a cinder or are we going to freeze into a single block of ice?

Apparently we walk a fine line between being and nothingness and the smallest component of this elaborate house of cards can be our undoing.

All of us deserve a gold star on our forehead for having the shear determination and courage to wake up each morning and face the grim uncertainty of existence.

Think I'll buy a bagel and contemplate my navel.

[Dales]

Amazing.

Four threads up in two days. Over 400 replies made on them.

Not a single abuse report. Not a single 'ping' to the moderators about abuse. Not a single email about abuse.

You know what that tells me?

It tells me that there was never a reason for all the crap that usually goes on in these threads. Good. Let's keep it this way.

[hosepipe]

[ Scientists find evolution of life ]

Humans love a good story, or a bad one....
Blow in some humans ears, and they will follow you anywhere..

[truthandjustice1]

"It would be wrong to try to guess my position based on me posting this thread."

Then would it be wrong to suggest that you may have single handedly created the problem with the o-zone layer?/sarcasm off

[man of Yosemite]

(Genesis 8:22) "While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." Thanks God, now I can go to sleep and not worry.

[Stone Mountain]

Self bump