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Old 19-02-2009, 07:46 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote in message
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moghouse writes
On Feb 19, 5:20 pm, "'Mike'" wrote:
(The Earth is reputed to be 36,000,000,000 years old. That is 36
Thousand
Million)

Just think, how important are you really? ........ ;-)


Well the real point is, Mike, all those years of evolution and
improvement have been leading up to..........me!


He could at least have got the age right. (The Earth is about 4.5 billion
years old; the estimates of the time that have passed since the Big Bang
have converged on 13.7 billion years.)
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Stewart Robert Hinsley


Which goes to show, that no matter which figures you apply, man's presence
on Earth is nothing less than a layer of dust. So I ask again, how important
are you in the minute time we are here?

Not at all, but look how important SOME people think they are :-)))