| ps3-sales! said: And for the fossil records, I find it impossible for me to believe that scientists can tell you how many millions of years old a rock is. That just sounds stupid. I know they have their equations and tests and what not, but still. |
Everything sounds like magic until you study it yourself. Go back in time 30 years and tell people that we'll have a portable phone that connects everyone on the planet, access the Internet, plays games, can render HD video and imagery and it all fits in your pocket. They'd lock you up in the looney bin.
Go back 100 years and tell them we'll have integrated circuits with 5 billion transistors on it that operate at 4 billion cycles per second and handle trillions of operations per second and it's only 22nm thick. They'd burn you at the stake.
The ability to carbon date a rock or use electron spin resonance dating, optically stimulated luminescense dating, mass spectrometric dating plus several other methods and can be used all in conjunction are simple concepts these days but can still seem hard to wrap your head around if you don't deal with it every day....as we do with cell phones and computers.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
