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xkcd bot@lemmy.worldB to xkcd@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

xkcd #3205: Carbon Dating

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xkcd #3205: Carbon Dating

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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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Source: https://xkcd.com/3205/

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  • nialv7@lemmy.world
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    a cosmologist wouldn’t even know what carbon is. it’s just some kind of metal.

    • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Still boggles my mind that literal matter came to be out of literally nothing but radiation and heat.

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        And now we can coax some matter to convert back into energy to produce power.

      • Zwiebel@feddit.org
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        Let’s time travel and take a look!

  • bulwark@lemmy.world
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    They’ll probably date bones in the future by how much plastic is in them.

    • sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org
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      in where

      • ripcord@lemmy.world
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        Bones

  • jaycifer@lemmy.world
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    Somewhere between 13.6 billion and 50,000 years old.

  • Etterra@discuss.online
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    Well they ain’t wrong.

    • sga@piefed.social
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      they are technically correct, the best kind of correct

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