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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: Expedition to Europa
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 13:45:17 +1000
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On 30/06/2024 7:45 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 17:41:14 -0400, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 11:26:56 -0700, john larkin
>> <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 11:35:47 -0400, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 04:04:11 -0700, Don Y
>>>> <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> 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




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