9 Sep
2008
9 Sep
'08
6:08 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
It has
taken even longer, which is not quite the same thing. Do we
have any reason to think we know how long it actually takes? That is,
the time actually required, as opposed to the time taken in the cases
we've looked at?
. . . and there are some folk who claim that you can make all that you
want in 6000 years, if you include a big flood, . . .
<flame off>
And then it will show up in another few thousand years as a string of
off topic postings on a classic computer mailing list.
Would everybody please resist the urge to post off topic one liners?
How many people need to chip in to what has degenerated to a worthless
thread?
<flame off>
>> And to
make coal...
> You find a old swamp, and cover it for few million years ...
I don't believe it takes quite that long.
It takes even longer.