Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bill Sloman Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Expedition to Europa Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 13:45:17 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <63br7jpf7le468rnljlfhaol4432dt70lq@4ax.com> <667f96cb$0$2873004$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <92018j574uvccf1r14g9tpaj1osktf7i2g@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 05:45:19 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c5a5fbd5c8fbcb7d6cae3672c5e8dec4"; logging-data="375996"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/14cSndefUaRe9UpXxofeluOAMKsKOQLY=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:cRIH768MXlxeqYdkv1QlSwl85Pk= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 240629-8, 29/6/2024), Outbound message In-Reply-To: <92018j574uvccf1r14g9tpaj1osktf7i2g@4ax.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2504 On 30/06/2024 7:45 am, john larkin wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 17:41:14 -0400, Joe Gwinn > wrote: > >> On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 11:26:56 -0700, john larkin >> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 11:35:47 -0400, Joe Gwinn >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 04:04:11 -0700, Don Y >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 6/28/2024 10:08 PM, bitrex wrote: >>>>>> On 6/27/2024 5:17 PM, Don Y wrote: > > I think that life on Earth is someone's high school science project. The experiment has been running for at least half a billion years, and probably some 3.5 billion years. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210117-stromatolites-the-earths-oldest-living-lifeforms The big bang was about 13.8 billion years ago. The "high school" would seem to need to be in some higher universe. High school projects do seem to have short time scales. -- Bill Sloman, Sydney -- This email has been checked for viruses by Norton antivirus software. www.norton.com