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I don't remember specifics from college, but yes, I think there is uranium pretty much everywhere. Oceans, rocks, dirt, maybe not airborne, but everywhere else.
There is actually enough in the oceans that people have proposed concentrating it for commercial extraction. Probably not viable, but surprising to think about.
210k-year-old skull in Greece is earliest sign of modern humans in Europe, Asia
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#32Does it strike anyone else as odd that the two skulls found practically "nose-to-nose" are 40,000 years apart in age? How do two humanoid skulls coincidentally end up right next to each other with 40,000 years gap between them?
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#33Does it strike anyone else as odd that the two skulls found practically "nose-to-nose" are 40,000 years apart in age? How do two humanoid skulls coincidentally end up right next to each other with 40,000 years gap between them?
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#34> When bone is buried in the ground, it can absorb U-238 from the environment. How? Is there traceable amount of Uranium-238 in every handful of dirt around the world?
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#35Take the dates with a grain of salt. Nobody ever got a grant or a paper published for revising towards a younger date. No discovery in that.
Really? Is there a published paper with evidence supporting this claim?
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#37Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20410982
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#38Nice try, Satan. First dinosaur bones are planted to trick us, and now this?!