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News Briefs 17-10-2008

Reality check… mate?

Quote of the Day:

“After us… the deluge.”

Louis XV (attributed)

  1. 345,000 footprints
    [quote]Dating experiments have not always confirmed suspicions. In 2003, a team discovered 40,000 year old footprints preserved in volcanic ash in southern Mexico. But when a separate group dated the Mexican prints using the argon technique used by Scaillet, they found that they were 1.3 million years old.

    Since this was before modern humans evolved in Africa – the team concluded that they couldn’t be human footsteps after all [emphasis mine] (see the very first Americans.[/quote]

    “It can’t be, therefore it isn’t”. Is that part of the scientific method?

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    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

      1. footprints?
        If you look at the picture in the New Scientist article, it doesn’t seem that obvious that these are human footprints.

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        It is not how fast you go
        it is when you get there.

  2. hottest planet
    I have a conspiracy theory about the hottest planet.

    You see, this planet’s orbit has been deduced by the periodic darkening of the star. Then calculating backwards from that period, they came up with this planet’s characteristics.

    However the truth, as I just made it up, inspired by some science fiction stories, is that it is not one planet in close orbit. Rather, we see the darkening effects of a series of objects in a much wider orbit.

    We are in fact witnessing the supposedly fictional Ringworld under construction.

    Ok, now I see that I didn’t actually make it up, just remembered parts of that book. And perhaps Niven didn’t make it up either 🙂 We should ask him.

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    It is not how fast you go
    it is when you get there.

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