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Old 05-23-2008, 04:13 PM
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Older than the earth it self.

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Scientists found a huge mass of cells, most of them still alive.
Guess who old these cells are?
80 years old? No
100 Years old? No
200 Years old? No
500 Years old? No
800 Years old? No
1000 Years old? No
5,000 Years old? No
10,000 Years old? No
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They are expected to be 111 Million years old.
Yes 111,000,000 years old.

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Parkes has been hunting for deep life for over 20 years. Recently, he and his colleagues examined samples of a mud core extracted from between 860 metres and 1626 metres beneath the sea floor off the coast of Newfoundland.
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The number that sticks in my head for the age of the earth is around 4.5 billion years.
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The number that sticks in my head for the age of the earth is around 4.5 billion years.
he's right, dinosaurs appeared 250 million years ago...
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The earth is only 6,000 years old
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The number that sticks in my head for the age of the earth is around 4.5 billion years.
and she doesn't look a day over 3.2 billion!
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The number that sticks in my head for the age of the earth is around 4.5 billion years.
yeah I know.
I was exaggerating.
And it's actually 4.6
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and she doesn't look a day over 3.2 billion!
i lol'd
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and she doesn't look a day over 3.2 billion!
You know your a science geek when you actually laugh out loud at that

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the earth is clearly 2008 years old...come on guys...jeez
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That book you read, eat it.
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Typo slipped in a few thousand years back
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Very cool!

Does this mean Newfies might be aliens?
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That's so 1850. It's 6158 years old now.
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Does this mean Newfies might be aliens?
our fuel is alcohol!!!
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They found it using a French Bow and whining about chord changes.
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