Re: yo boots
- From: boots <no@xxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:39:17 -0600
Jackson Pillock <jacksonpillock@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Here you go, a bit of bony evidence to chew on:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/305816.stm
'Oldest ever' fossils found
'...the scientists reasoned that since the action of modern micro-
organisms produces deposits of a limestone called dolomite, then
dolomite approximately 3.5 billion years old would be a good place to
start looking for their ancestors.
'They found some 3.45 billion-year-old dolomite in the Pilbara range
in North West Australia. After etching it with acid they found the
fossils using an electron microscope.
'It is believed that the fossils are of a cyanobacteria - an organism
that still forms thick mats in warm shallow seas today.'
That do you for a ballpark lower-limit age of life?
Hey, I put those in place last Thursday, move along.
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Don't read this crap... oops, too late!
[superstitious heathen grade 8]
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