moonbouncer
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Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 | 11:38 AM
You can find fossils at the local nursing home. You can find fossils underneath your nuts if you dont shower. Did I mention that I had corn in my poo yesterday. It felt like a fossil coming out too. |
Smerk
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Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 | 05:46 PM
I remember reading something like that - God created fossils as a joke - can't remember which particular book it was in, but can tell you it was written by Terry Pratchett. And of course, it wasn't about our world either...we don't travel through space on a flat world on the back of 4 elephants on the back of a turtle...do we? |
Sharruma
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 | 02:18 AM
We used to
The world on the back of four elephants carried by a giant turtle was what people believed before it was proved the world was round. |
matzusdog
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 | 04:05 AM
it was one of Pratchetts sci-fi books called Strata - I believe the quote was something like
"Fossils were a result of when the Creator was much younger and unsure of what He wanted, and was, as it were, idly messing about with the Pleistocene" |
Nettie
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 | 04:28 AM
Hurrah! Smerk, someone else from good old Perth! I thought I was the only one in our time zone! |
Nettie
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 | 04:30 AM
By the way, moonbouncer, you scare me. Didn't your mother ever tell you to chew your corn properly??? Geez, that way your poo would be all mushy and yellow, not fossilised.
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Boo
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 | 04:38 AM
Curses, I wasn't paying attention properly, and thought you meant Perth in Scotland.
:red:
Oh well. |
Nettie
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 | 04:40 AM
No, I meant the lovely sunny one!
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Boo
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 | 05:01 AM
Hey, it's sunny here!
Well, it's not actually raining...
Much...
*sigh*
So! Back to the fossil debate!
(Just so I'm not completely OT) |
Smerk
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 | 06:00 PM
Yes, we may be the most isolated capital city in the world, but we do exist! There are people here. It's not a fictional place! Matzusdog, I'm pretty sure I read it in a different Pratchett book - one of the Rincewind novels...but then Pratchett does recycle his material from time to time...by the way, what does the turtle stand on? |
Smerk
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Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 | 06:03 PM
Nettie, I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one in Australia doing the occasional post. But then, some people don't say where they're writing from. |
matzusdog
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 12:55 AM
I'm pretty sure he answers that one as well - another turtle. And what does that one stand on? Well, its obvious. it's turtles all the way down... |
Smerk
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 01:24 AM
Just checking! 😜 |
Nettie
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 07:05 AM
Yeah Smerk, I think there are a couple of us. We're the ones who post and then have to wait until the next day to check for replies as everyone else seems to be alseep on the other side of the world.
Sigh, such is life I suppose.
It gives me something to do after work. |
Boo
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 07:08 AM
Just out of curiosity...
What time is it where you are, nettie?
It's 2.10 in the afternoon here.
(I really should be doing some work) |
Nettie
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 07:29 AM
it's 10.30 at night, I should be in bed, early morning tomorrow |
Nettie
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 07:48 AM
When I said that thing about everyone being asleep, I probably should have said when I post during the day. Obviously, when it's night here, it's day over there...somewhere...maybe...well, I'd assume so...
I'll just shut up now.
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Nettie
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 07:50 AM
OOOOOOOHHHHHH I get it now! There's a little time thingy telling me when I posted in Alex's time! Who's the dickhead now Nettie!!!
(perhaps I should get my glasses prescription checked again...) |
The Curator
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 07:58 AM
It's not my time actually. I think I set the daylight savings time option wrong. So it's an hour ahead. It said 'are you currently observing daylight savings time'? But what does that mean? Spring we're an hour ahead, and come Fall we'll be an hour behind. So aren't we always observing it, in one way or another? |
Boo
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 07:58 AM
Alex's time is magic time.
*nods sagely*
It's actually quite annoying, because I come on here when I'm at work, so about the time everyone is getting up over there, I'm going home over here.
HoHum. |
Smerk
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 05:22 PM
Never mind, Boo, I always post while I'm at work too, so it's very very quiet...I've just got into work, so it's approx 8.19 in the morning here in sunny Perth. *yawn* Alex, you need to add a sleepy smiley! |
Boo
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 | 02:50 AM
You get to work before 9?
Ugh.
But yes, we need a sleepy smiley.
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Nettie
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 | 05:19 AM
Unfortuately I don't have access to the net at work (darn retail!) so I have to get on when I get home from work. But I agree, a sleepy smile would be good because I'm buggered after work.
They say we Aussies work some of the longest hours in the world. Smerk how many do you average? I do bout 44-46 a week which I think SUCKS but hey, I wanna get paid.
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Boo
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 | 05:26 AM
Despite the fact I wasn't the one you asked...
I do between 32 and 40 a week, depending whether I'm working 4 or 5 days.
44-46 is a lot to be doing.
Good pay? |
Nettie
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 | 05:42 AM
Not really, I'm on a salary so I get paid for 40 no matter how many I work. Over Christmas it was hell! I was working up to 55 hours and they just expect you to do it. But I gotta remember, I want my house, have to save! |
Smerk
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 | 06:16 AM
Aaah, I'm lucky - 37.5 hours per week, no more, no less - although sometimes less would be nice. I technically start at 8.30 am and leave at 5 (official opening hours of the office). I do get in a little early, but always make sure I leave at 5 - gotta make a dash for those trains! I've heard that the average aussie works approx 40 hours a week, so I can say I'm below average. 😏 |
Smerk
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 | 06:29 AM
Ummm, just realised we're getting way off topic here! Think we may need someone sensible to get us back on track...What was the question again? 😊 |
Boo
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 | 06:36 AM
Yeah, um, fossils.
Creatures' remains.
Hidden by aliens, or possibly Hitler. |
Smerk
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 | 10:32 PM
Why would Hitler hide fossils? Especially since people have been finding fossils long before Hitler was even born. Unless he is/was a time traveller? 😕 |
Boo
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 | 02:23 AM
Well, of course he's a time traveller.
Or possibly an alien.
😛
It's all a conspiracy, anyway. |
Nettie
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 | 03:48 AM
I think we've got buckley's of getting back on track now. Maybe we shouldn't side track in the first place... |
Boo
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 | 03:57 AM
Mmmmm.
Off topic even more, but...
buckley's? |
Nettie
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 | 04:09 AM
Oh sorry, it means really little...um, how else can I explain? It's just something that's always been said here. Ah, let's see, I probably shouls have said we will NEVER EVER EVER get back on track.
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Boo
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 | 04:26 AM
Gotcha.
😊
Snowball's chance, eh? |
Nettie
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 | 04:36 AM
Something like that |
Boo
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 | 04:56 AM
<a href="http://www.creationists.org/resp0011.html">These people</a> say
"As Christians, we can be 100% confident that the claims of these fossils being "missing links" are completely false. God told us he "created" all creatures fully-formed, suddenly and miraculously. We know from a careful interpretation of scriptures that this occurred about 6,000 years ago. We should never be so foolish as to put the opinions of misguided scientists, or elitist journalists over the Word of God on this or any matter. The prudent thing to do concerning these particular fossils is to take a wait-and-see attitude. Understand that there is good reason to mistrust the Columbus Dispatch, the media in general and these scientists on this issue. Give some of the scientists who are willing to do a critical analysis of the claims made about these fossils time to digest the data and make their comments. What we will most likely see is that other evolutionists will help lead the charge against these outrageous claims much as they have done with the "dinosaur-to-bird hypothesis", and other alleged missing links. And of course, Creation scientists will once again be in the familiar position of having to say "We told you so" when this eventually does occur. Christian scientists have known for years that modern science is still playing catch up to the Bible and will likely continue to do so until Jesus returns to claim his own."
and there's <a href="http://www.creationists.org/evolutionisreligion.html">this</a>:
"Fossil bones to not come with little labels attached telling you how old they are. Nor do fossils have photographs with them telling you what the animals looked like as they roamed the earth long ago.
When people visit a museum they are confronted by bits and pieces of bones and other fossils neatly arranged in glass cases. These are often accompanied by pictures representing an artist's impression of what the animals and plants could have looked like in their natural environment. Remember, no one dug up the picture, just the fossils. And these fossils exist in the present. For example, in Tasmania there is a sandstone bed containing millions of pieces of bones, most of which are no larger than the end of your thumb. The evolutionists have placed a picture at one particular excavation so that tourists can see how the animals and plants lived in the region "millions of years ago." You can stare at those pieces of bones for as long as you like, but you will never see the picture the scientists have drawn."
Interesting, I thought.
And mostly on topic.
😊 |
Maegan
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 | 07:45 AM
...I don't get it. Is it a joke-site? They have a T.V. for sale. |
Razela
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 | 03:32 PM
Smerk, I think the book you are trying to think of is called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0441003257/qid=1111098656/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/103-4766482-7874253?v=glance&s=books&n=507846">Good Omens</a> by Terry Prachett and Niel Gaimon. Very funny book and highly recommended to anyone who is not easily offended. |
Smerk
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Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 | 05:31 PM
It may be...I have the majority of Pratchett's books, and re-read them constantly. They all get jumbled up over time. I agree, Good Omens is hilarious. Good for another controversial religious topic!
Maegan, I think they're trying to say that on the 8th day, God created TV, not man in the late 40's, early 50's. Wonder what programs he would've watched? So yes, it probably is a bit of a joke. |
mikey
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 | 03:10 AM
hi can you tell me how fossils work im only 13 |
Nick
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 | 10:56 AM
mikey,
Some animals were quickly buried after their death (by sinking in mud, being buried in a sand storm, etc.).
Over time, more and more sediment covered the remains.
The parts of the animals that didn't rot (usually the harder parts likes bones and teeth) were encased in the newly-formed sediment.
In the right circumstances (no scavengers, quick burial, not much weathering), parts of the animal turned into fossils over time.
After a long time, the chemicals in the buried animals' bodies underwent a series of changes. As the bone slowly decayed, water infused with minerals seeped into the bone and replaced the chemicals in the bone with rock-like minerals. The process of fossilization involves the dissolving and replacement of the original minerals in the object with other minerals (and/or permineralization, the filling up of spaces in fossils with minerals, and/or recrystallization in which a mineral crystal changes its form).
This process results in a heavy, rock-like copy of the original object - a fossil. The fossil has the same shape as the original object, but is chemically more like a rock! Some of the original hydroxy-apatite (a major bone consitiuent) remains, although it is saturated with silica (rock).
everyone else,
who is with me in saying this site should have a permanent link to <a href="http://www.fuckinggoogleit.com/">this</a> site? |
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 | 12:18 PM
hi can you tell me how fossils work im only 13 - mikey (13)
They get a wake-up shake from their wifes, which have coffee and breakfast, slippers and morning paper ready. They shower and put on a grey suit, take their business briefcase, kiss their wifes (who stay at home and do the dishes), jump on the bus and and go to office. There they spend the day filling and filing paper sheets and making chains of paper clips, being suplied with coffee by a fat lady with an East End accent. If they use a pc at all, it is with two fingers, and probably with a focus on porn.
Basically that is how fossils work. Additional info is that they are usually bald. When they go home again at fiive, their wifes await them with the evening newspaper, a beer or a cup of tea, and diner cooking. In th vening h will watch th nine 0'cock neews while the wife iis doing the dishes. |
