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To: chessplayer
The Earth is several billion years old. "Records" go back only a couple hundred years. Accurate records go back 50? years. The last 50 years out of four billion ... yeah, that makes it easy to spot a trend.
13 posted on 01/16/2008 7:30:08 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze
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To: Sgt_Schultze

The Earth is several billion years old. "Records" go back only a couple hundred years. Accurate records go back 50? years. The last 50 years out of four billion ... yeah, that makes it easy to spot a trend.

yep.

A Chronology of the Earth

Event

Date

Time

Years Ago

Big Bang

Jan. 1

12:00 AM

15,000,000,000 yr

CMB forms

Jan. 1

12:10:30 AM

14,999,700,000 yr

Galaxies form

Jan. 24

12:00 AM

14,000,000,000 yr

Sun forms

Sept. 13

noon

4,500,000,000 yr

Earth forms

Sept. 13

12:17 PM

4,400,000,000 yr

1st life appears

Oct. 24

8:48 PM

2,800,000,000 yr

1st higher forms

Dec. 19

3:07 AM

570,000,000 yr

1st land animals

Dec. 25

4:29 AM

280,000,000 yr

1st dinosaurs

Dec. 26

12:36 PM

225,000,000 yr

Dinos Rule!

Dec. 28

4:34 PM

136,000,000 yr

Dinos Die!

Dec. 29

10:02 PM

65,000,000 yr

Earliest "human"

Dec. 31

9:05 PM

5,000,000 yr

Neanderthal - CM

Dec. 31

11:50 PM

300,000 yr

Last Ice Age

Dec. 31

11:59:37 PM

11,000 yr

Pyramids

Dec. 31

11:59:53 PM

3,500 yr

USA

Dec. 31

11:59:59.6 PM

220 yr

You

Dec. 31

11:59:59.96 PM

20 yr


28 posted on 01/16/2008 9:04:04 AM PST by itsamelman (Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh. - - Al Swearengen)
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To: Sgt_Schultze
The Earth is several billion years old. "Records" go back only a couple hundred years. Accurate records go back 50? years. The last 50 years out of four billion ... yeah, that makes it easy to spot a trend.

I wish there was a push to increase funding for accurately measuring the earths temperature. I suspect that stuff vastly beyond our control causes the massive shifts in the earths weather (ie. ice ages), but it wouldn't hurt to get a better read on this. I don't want to accelerate a coming ice age nor to turn Earth into a desert planet. The records we have are poor and it is clear that the data we are recording RIGHT NOW in the 21st century are in many cases tainted. Before spending trillions on fixing a problem that may not even exist, why aren't we budgeting more money to make the measurements?

Or does that sound too reasonable?

55 posted on 01/16/2008 8:48:03 PM PST by free_for_now (No Dick Dale in the R&R HOF? - for shame!)
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To: Sgt_Schultze
"Accurate" measurement devices go back a long way. "Accurate measurement" records have not yet been created.

This has to do with a maintenance problem as yet unresolved, nor does anyone have any idea how to fix it.

65 posted on 03/06/2008 5:56:43 AM PST by muawiyah
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