To: Rodney King; longshadow; PatrickHenry; Junior; balrog666
“Then we did some carbon-dating and we confirmed that these are the real deal.” Very cool. Carbon dating a marble statue. This is the kind of real science we should be pissing away money for...
To: general_re
LOL
To: general_re
Carbon dating a marble statue. You beat me to it.
To: general_re
But you can carbon-date a marble statue. It's calcium carbonate. Only problem is that it wouldn't tell you when the statue was carved, it would tell you when the marble was formed ... if it worked back that far, which it doesn't.
19 posted on
11/13/2002 2:22:10 PM PST by
Campion
To: general_re
This was my favorite line in the story:
Art critics and historians are up in arms over this shocking find.
Very clever!
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