Subject: Dude, it took 500+ million years to happen ...
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Posted on: 2009-06-23 21:22:00 UTC
... anything under a full day's lecture is the short version :P
Glad it helped :D
Subject: Dude, it took 500+ million years to happen ...
Author:
Posted on: 2009-06-23 21:22:00 UTC
... anything under a full day's lecture is the short version :P
Glad it helped :D
I know it's been asked before, and the recent Board Survey asked in terms of range, but a recent conversation with Sara and that thread about posting below has made me wonder.
So, if you guys don't mind, care to tell me how old you are? I know, as a point of fact, that most people here are in their teens, but I tend to forget, sometimes, and I'm curious.
I'm twenty-two, if anyone cares to know. *waves her Old Lady Walking Stick*
And I started posting here when I was 14. Yikes.
But I keep forgetting!
...in years, anyway. In cynicism, about two hundred. ;)
Not too old, not too young. Just right.
I'll leave it to you to decide whether that's centuries or life-ages of the universe.
But with a bad habit of answering 16. It probably doesn't help that I look around 14, but isn't a useful habit when you're being ID'd (even when it's for child tickets on the train).
But considering I also have an OAP bus pass in my wallet... (the disabled one is the same as the OAP one, so I have to endure).
Hee. Hee hee.
Sorry, I don't give out my age, if possible. (It's a privacy habit I uphold.) But I am within the age range of 1-100. More specifically, the age range of 10-20. *shrugs*
*Az sticks out her tongue in an ever-so-mature fashion*
And I've only got till October till I'll be twenty-one.
Bah.
July 12, that is. I guess I'm about average.
I turn sixteen in August. Suddenly I feel very young. *staring around at all twenty-year-olds*
And a half (almost).
My birthday's in about a month.
32
Nineteen in... about three months.
I turned 21 on April 13th! :D
Hitting 21 in a couple of months, actually. Fun.
As of April 30th.
Who's old now? :P
Party's on the other board. Happy birthday Krisprolls!
January 4th, 1991.
I have been known to tell people I'm anything from 21-24 and then scratch my head, think, try to remember which year I was born in, and then on occasion have to ask what year it *is*...
I forget too. It tends to take me up to six months to remember that we've changed year if I'm writing down a date. This year was odd though. I memorised it in two days. Crazy.
I have a horrible tendency to have a similar conversation on those rare occasions when I get IDed. My automatic response tends to be "Dunno, what year is it?"
... tell myself we're in the Century of the Anchovy.
I keep thinking we're still in the Century of the Fruitbat.
We're in the Anchovy now.
... on a slightly more serious note, what century ARE we in? As in, what Earth century, not what Disc century?
It's one of those ones that starts with a two. I think. Holocene, isn't it?
the Common Era calendar (aka the calendar based on when that Jesus bloke was around, but more politically correct).
It is? Since when? Where the hell did the twentieth bugger off to? I'd swear it was here just a moment ago...
I feel sorry for you. I have that trouble too, but I've never forgotten my age or the year (once memorised). Maybe you should carry your birth certificate/passport everywhere with you?
If I'm honest, I just have issues with periods of time shorter than ten thousand years.
Uncyclopaedia tells the truth when it says 'One of the main difficulties in communicating with geologists is their belief that a million years is a short amount of time and their heads are harder than rocks. Consequently, such abstract concepts as "Tuesday Morning" and Lunchtime are completely beyond their comprehension. (This difficulty generates problems particularly when dealing with the girlfriend/boyfriend/spouse and attempting to explain why you were "gone for so long" or why something is taking "so long to occur.")'
Yeah, you've infected me with that, you know. A book I was reading the other day, probably Mutants, mentioned a thousand million years ago. Think they were talking about Hox genes. And I thought "a thousand million? That's... not all that long, is it?"
Not when you consider the Earth itself is 4.6 billion years old ... :D
It wasn't until I remembered how long ago the... Cambrian explosion, is it? was, that I realised, yeah, a thousand million years is actually quite a long time.
Life hasn't been around all that long in the scheme of things :D
... in the fossil record.
And if I got into the reasons I had to put 'sudden' in quote marks, we'd be here all decade :D
as long as I can play Left 4 Dead while you're talking. I'm also a fairly decent multitasker. Woo!
Short version! Short version! :P
Thanks, though. I think I understand random knowledge now.
... anything under a full day's lecture is the short version :P
Glad it helped :D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_explosion
When multicellular organisms suddenly started appearing and diversifying all over the shop.
not a figurative one.
far better than Encyclopaedia Dramatica.
So, do you have those issues with "Tuesday Morning"? Maybe I should become a geologist. I can't remember anything.
like you're doing a PhD.
My days were almost all the same. Only way I noticed it was Friday was because most of the senior staff was absent (most of them worked only four days a week).
And yeah, same here. If I can find any of my supervisors/helpful people, it must be Friday ...
And I presume you shower at some point between rolling in and out of bed? Or is the mud bath enough?
Yeah I shower when I'm at home. Not when I'm staying in a shack, cos they don't usually have them.
I took my sister to one of our field stations once. She called it a 'shit little hut'. I was shocked, because after all, this was our swankiest field station; it had both showers AND toilets!
they'd be half rotten and covered with mouse droppings?
And for your sister, it sounds like she likes to live high maintenance? :D
That's probably not 'high maintenance' except by the standards of geologists. But let's face it, when you're surrounded by awesome rocks, who has the time or interest to do something as boring as washing?
or they'll erode.
Also the best place to see stratigraphy is in streambeds :D Where the rocks are wet. And where you get wet also.
Thank Glod for waterproof notebooks, is all I can say!
The science of strations?
Strata being rock layers :)
so far off?
a proofreader. Being a geologist might require interacting. With people. *shudders*
That's my desired career, too!
And it was inspired by joining the PPC, wouldja believe.
Not that I can depend on its income, right now, but I am making money. :)
I was inspired when I stopped being crap at beta reading. I only have a C in English GCSE, but that's because of the freaking Literature side of it. What a load of crap. If they'd split Lit and Lang back up, I'd have aced Lang and happily failed Lit.
I only got Cs in both. But the places around where I live all demand an A-level in English, so now I'm looking at applying to colleges so I can get that. And I'm not doing any freakin' Literature unless I bloody well have to, I hated it.
I'm sick of literature courses. I'm delighted to say I never have to do them again. :)
.. but you do interact with them a LOT. To the exclusion of almost all other people.
Yes, proofreading might suit you a bit better if you're not a social type.
is a massive understatement. I can't get comfortable with anyone in real life. Pop goes my chance at having children?
... as a qualified biologist, that if you get on okay with women and children, that is all the requisite things for breeding. Y'know, women. Getting on with them helps if you wish one to bear your offspring.
and never truly comfortably. My best real life female friend in the last three years was a lesbian. Oh, yeah. I'm good with women.
Approximately a month ago, on May 6. I'm nineteen now.
...It really doesn't feel that different from eighteen, to be honest.
It was June 11. I'm 24 now. I'm really old. {; )
~Neshomeh, who would have mentioned the birthday, but she was busy playing D&D and spending time with her fiance.