Recent content by Robert Christian

Helps put it in perspective.

Didn't know, but now I do.

One of the reasons Agamerica recommends against moving the time and the American Dairy Association says that it is extra work for the dairy farmers to keep theirs cows okay by gradually changing milking and feeding times.

Follow the lice. So, 300,000 years ago, here and there. 170,000 years ago, widespread and regular. Thanks!

Like most things that the country would like to see get done, our Congress cannot do it. We have a governing system built for a smaller country and a slower time - horse travel. Most 12-year-olds could think of better ways of governance. What a mess.

... I always had a good excuse ...

Well - that didn't happen.

Yo! not good. I noticed when trying to find some words recently that ChatGPT or Bard were not much help. They didn't seem to understand the concept of "a word with (x) number of letters."

That is amazing. Almost unbelievable.

What's next? Will a closer view show a tiny moon of the moons?

That may be a threshold in an agreement or about a point after which there needs to be no more input for a projected result, but the real threshold would be when the oceans have absorbed so much heat that the large weather patterns change the dependability of our breadbasket farmlands and food...

Interesting. Would like to see a map of the populations with percentages.

Since Oldowan tools and others were from 1 1/2 to 2 million years before, it's likely that other sites will be found - sometime.

I wonder if to catch light or heavy dark matter particles, or something lighter than neutrinos, if the area between here and the moon might be a place to build a detector as their would be less to interfere or do we need the shield provided by concrete and the earth. What are the projections for...

Wow! Thanks. Hadn't thought much about how and why plants moved to land: rock-derived elements, eh? Well written - thanks again.