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To: PatrickHenry

So this type of atmosphere would be completely cloudy (and opaque to visible light) until the later (oxygen -producing) plants arrived, right?

Where then, in the global time frame, would these first theorectical "plants/microbes/amino-acid-strings" be compared to the formation of the moon from its asteroid collision?

(Moon is theorectically 4.5 billion years old. First rocks still existing in the Canadian shiled are also 4-5 billion years old. So when could the earliest "life" begin?)


44 posted on 09/12/2005 12:36:16 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
So this type of atmosphere would be completely cloudy (and opaque to visible light)...

I think the word you're looking for is "translucent." Opaque describes something that completely blocks light.

54 posted on 09/12/2005 1:30:29 PM PDT by Junior (Just because the voices in your head tell you to do things doesn't mean you have to listen to them)
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