09/09/09

[pineapple stu]

I think you can take out the 14 billion year old earth theory! It'd be impressive if it were 10 billion years older than the rest of the solar system.

[centre mid]

There isnt really a definitive theory yet but they are getting closer to one all the time. The problem being its very hard to correctly age anything that is too far away to radiation age. Different strands of science will have a different theory of how old planets/stars etc are, it depends what field of science your working in I suppose. There are mad whores who think the world is only 6000 years old but thankfully his 8 years were up last Jan.

[pineapple stu]

Yeah, but I think 4.5bn is the common consensus. On the basis that no-one was there to check, it can't be proven, but I don't think there's any serious argument for the earth being 14bn years old.

[Battery Rover]

Apparently the world is going to end on 21 December 2012!

Have read about the Mayan calender ending on that day alright along with the appearance of the lizard king and Planet X. Some pretty heavy stuff about it on conspiracy theory websites.

Well if its true we have
1200 days
Or 3 years, 3 months, 13 days

103,680,000 seconds
1,728,000 minutes
28,800 hours
171 weeks (rounded down)

I know quiet day

[DeLorean]

My son was born 13 weeks prematurely on 08/08/07. He weighed 1.1kg and the medics said he would not survive more than a few hours.. A friend gave me hope by saying that he will thrive because he was born on the 8th day of the 8th month, based on the Chinese theory on the number 8.

Cool, that's my birthday too, except the 07 bit obviously!!

[DeLorean]

Apparently the world is going to end on 21 December 2012! FACT, well sort of

Great, then I get to die with all ye great guys, instead of dying alone at a later date.

[thischarmingman]

Whereas if you put them together coming would be a given.

Speak for yourself...

[thischarmingman]

On the subject of the origins of the world, I always think of Archbishop Ussher, who spend years going through the Bible in the 1650's and finally calculated the beginning of creation to have been nightfall preceding 23 October 4004 BC (around suppertime).

[stann]

Best guess puts the universe at between 15 & 20 billion years old, but thats all it is, an educated guess. Our solar system formed about 4-5 billion years ago so its estimated that earth began forming 4.5 - 14 billions years ago.

Eh... no it doesn't.
The accepted consensus is that our universe is between 13 and a half and 14 billion years old.
The solar system is 4.6 billion years old.
The earth cannot be older than the solar system, as it formed from the circumstellar disc formed as the Sun itself formed, and indeed it isn't. It's pretty much agreed that it is 4.5 billion years old or so, maybe a smidge more (4.54).
Nobody estimates that it began forming 14 billion years ago, don't know where that's coming from.

[Mr A]

Anyhow, here's a Motorhead song about today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0K5mHHhVU4

[tetsujin1979]

Dates only stack up if you take the Christian clock. The earth is somewhere between 4.5 - 14 billions years old, what date does that make it?

next tuesday.

[First]

Speak for yourself...

Thats a good start tongue out

[Magicme]

Have read about the Mayan calender ending on that day alright along with the appearance of the lizard king and Planet X. Some pretty heavy stuff about it on conspiracy theory websites.

Well if its true we have
1200 days
Or 3 years, 3 months, 13 days

103,680,000 seconds
1,728,000 minutes
28,800 hours
171 weeks (rounded down)

I know quiet day

Yeah its fascinating how the Mayan's looked at things and how much they knew. They are my favourite of the ancient civilisations and if had a daughter her name would be Maya in honour of them!