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Old 15-03-2005, 15:45   #37
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Re: disasters that could end the world

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Originally Posted by AndrewJames
I like this happens every so many thousand years, how do we know, we are using the old dates of history, I doubt earth will have a timetable where every 67000years this happens, the Earth is neverending, always changing always doing something different, what could have made ever 67000 years could now be 1003 years or more? I mean we have blown nukes,h-bombs all kinds of bombs off all over the planet, we just don't know we are sitting ducks and here for the ride.
Because major geological events leave a record of themselves in geological formations. These can then be dated with reasonable accuracy, and thus a possible timescale for recurring events can be extrapolated.
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