Posted on 12/31/2005 9:37:38 PM PST by neverdem
The Boyet and Carlson result requires the Earth to have differentiated early, within 30 million years, leaving most of Earth's mantle (light blue) depleted in those elements that prefer melts over crystallizing solids. The chemical complement to the depleted mantle could be small and quite enriched in radioactive elements, such as uranium and thorium; this complementary material may coincide with the seismically observed D" layer, located between the core and the mantle some 2700 km deep. (Images courtesy Maud Boyet)
BTTT
You know, between 30M and 4B -- pretty soon you're talking about real time.
Lost on the first absurd sentence.
Birth? I.D............ B.B. .............. what?
Thank God there was no Planned Parenthood then.
I didn't see it as between 4 billion and 30 million. More like between 4 billion and (4 billion minus 30 million). Isn't that how the article puts it?
YEC INTREP
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Main Entry: sa·mar·i·um
Pronunciation: s&-'mer-E-&m, -'mar-
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from French samarskite
: a pale gray lustrous metallic element used especially in alloys that form permanent magnets -- see ELEMENT table
And now for something completely different:
Main Entry: sa·mar·i·um
Pronunciation: s&-'mer-E-&m, -'mar-
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from French samarskite
: a pale gray lustrous metallic element used especially in alloys that form permanent magnets -- see ELEMENT table
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28 October 1878: Delafontaine reports another new metal found in samarskite from North Carolina, this time he gave this element the name Decipium, after the Latin "decipiens", which means "deceptive, misleading" (note). According to Delafontaine, samarskite contains the earths yttria, erbia, terbia, philippia, decipia, thoria, didymia, and ceria.
16 August 1880: after spectroscopical analysis, Soret found that Decipium was identical with Lecoq's Samarium (note). Later was shown that Decipium was a mixture of Samarium and other rare-earth elements, mainly Neodymium and Praseodymium.
28 July 1879: François Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1838-1912) analyzed samarskite and noted that another earth precipitated before Didymia when ammonium hydroxide was added. Spectral analysis showed two new blue lines, differend from the lines of Decipium. Lecoq called the new earth Samaria after its mineral source. The name for the element within became Samarium. (note). To Vasilij Evgrafovic Samarskij-Byhovec, a rather unknown person, went the honour of being the first individual to give his name to a chemical element.
Despite the suggested chemical symbol of Sm, until the 1920s often Sa was used (note). Later was shown that Lecoq's Samarium was a mixture of Samarium and Europium. Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (1852-1904) separated it in 1901.
19 April 1880: Marignac reports that he has separated two new earths from samarskite. He indicated them provisionally with Ya and Yß (note).
16 August 1880: after spectroscopical analysis, Soret found that Yß was identical with Samarium (note). In 1886 Lecoq de Boisbaudran produced a more pure form of Ya and named it Gadolinium.
Via spectroscopical analysis Sir William Crookes described in 1886 an element Sd, which later proved to be Samarium.
Basic information:
http://www.chemicalelements.com/elements/sm.html
The symbols one finds in the oddest places. Wonder how it's spelled in Hebrew...
http://www.vanderkrogt.net/elements/lang/hebrew_num(w1255).html
samech, mem, resh, yud, vav, mem
60 + 40 + 200 + 10 + 6 + 40 = 356
Compare:
alef, mem, resh, yud, quf, hei
1 + 40 + 200 + 10 + 100 + 5 = 356
Tolkien built his mythology pretty much alone. Apparently, vast fictions are still possible, but people don't seem smart enough to create them on their own anymore. It takes vast numbers of people to write broad fictions nowdays. The more stupid the fiction, the more likely it will be called "science" apparently. If it's good fiction, it might make it to the best seller list and maybe even have the name of a single mind attached to it - like Stephen King... Now I'll shut up and let the liberals present take on the parlance of the anti-McCarthy mob. Perhaps once they're done being emotional and irrational, we can imagine why we should bother accepting assumptions as "reasonable" when there is no basis for analyzing how "reasonable" the assumptions are.
Next year, the earth will be nearly 5billion years old - assuming we accept assumptions. lol
A) The person railing about those darned "assumptions" without bothering to do anything so mundane as name any of those assumptions or explain why they are unwarranted, or;
B) the person who thinks this article means that the age of the earth is being revised downward to 30 million years - after all, if you're six feet tall, and it took you about 14 years to grow to your present height of six feet, you must be about 14 years old.
Cast your votes now!
Mythology and science fiction never caught my fancy. Maud Boyet and Richard Carlson have staked their reputations on their conclusions. Their reputations and their conclusions will be upheld or refuted by the scientific method alone.
IMHO, the recent exposure of fraud with stem cells is instructive. Fraud in science does not withstand scrutiny. Time will tell if it works or not. Faith in the Creator has nothing to do with it. Happy New Year!
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When fraud withstands scrutiny, none dare call it fraud.. Say for instance - if a group of people decide they like an ideology enough to call it "science"... The response to people calling the bluff might look something like early Democrats going after Joe McCarthy.. Hmm.
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