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This dating is corroborated by the presence of stone tools at the site, rather than earlier and less effective helium ones.
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This dating is corroborated by the presence of stone tools at the site, rather than earlier and less effective helium ones.
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They’ll probably date bones in the future by how much plastic is in them.
Well they ain’t wrong.
they are technically correct, the best kind of correct
Somewhere between 13.6 billion and 50,000 years old.
nialv7@lemmy.world 1 day ago
a cosmologist wouldn’t even know what carbon is. it’s just some kind of metal.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Still boggles my mind that literal matter came to be out of literally nothing but radiation and heat.
Gathorall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And now we coax matter to convert back into energy to produce power.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 day ago
Let’s time travel and take a look!