Ivy covered tree
"cormaic" wrote in message
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'Twas Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:10:30 +0100, when Mike
enriched all our lives with these worthy
thoughts:
The Earth is reputed to be 36 Thousand Million Years old.
No - it's approximately 3.6 billion years old which is 3
thousand 600 million not 36 thousand million - you are out by an order
of magnitude.
....and you are out by about 1 billion years! More like 4.3-4.5 billion.
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Tumbleweed
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