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Jameson Lopp | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +46 
 Sharks have survived for around 450 million years. That makes them older than:

North Star, aka Polaris (~70 MYO)

Saturn's rings (~100 MYO)

The Atlantic Ocean (~150 MYO)

One galactic orbit (200-225 MY)

Trees (390 MYO)
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fiatdenier | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 How do you even know that?
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Jameson Lopp | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Carbon dating and astrophysics?
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ricky | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Carbon dating also said the rocks of the newly formed lava dome in the crater of Mt. St. Helens are 350,000 years old
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SHSS | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Somebody dug up the fossil of a shark from 450 million years ago? 

Carbon dating is kind of like S2F. Best taken with a grain of salt, especially for predictions in the hundreds of millions of years
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fiatdenier | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 DNA has a half life of 521 years, after 1000 years, 75% of DNA is gone, after 7 million years, every single base pair is gone, how do you determine something that is 400X older than that?
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JayLeClay | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Science!


Stay in school, Kids.
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jerrud | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I laugh a little when I hear timelines like that. I’m not saying that those things aren’t that old, but I doubt the implicit rigid accuracy.
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nourspace | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 They must be telling each other the tales of the ancient times when nothing existed but their Atlantis
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mandalorianhodl | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 so you also listened to that Joe Rogan episode, huh? 😅
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Padoc2robert | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I learned something today 💜
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Bird1984 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I feel way older than that shark, when people try to tell me about how cool it is to put pictures on a blockchain.
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legxxi | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 How much or little have they evolved then? Where’s Darwin, does he has Nostr
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xalang | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 your reasoning killed those bullshit facts
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build.it | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Wow. Good facts.
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vnprc | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 sharks are older than trees 🤯
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TexasHODLer | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The universe is 6,000 years old.  Genesis 1-3