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Lalasticlala mynd44 ... do the needful please!!!

tempem:
How does radiometric works, first?

Geologists discovered that radioactive materials decay into other
elements at a very predictable rate.

Some materials decay quickly, while others can take millions or even billions of years to fully decay. Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy, working at McGill University, determined that half of any isotope of a radioactive element decays into another isotope at a set rate.


For example, if you have a set amount of Thorium-232, half of it will decay over a
billion years, and then half of that amount will decay in another billion years. This is the source of the term “half life”.


By measuring the half lives of radioactive isotopes, geologists were
able to build a measurement ladder that let them accurately
calculate the age of geologic formations, including the Earth. They
used the decay of uranium into various isotopes of lead.

By measuring the amount of three different isotopes of lead (Pb-206,
Pb-207, and Pb-208 or Pb-204), geologists can calculate how
much Uranium was originally in a sample of material.


If the Solar System formed from a common pool of matter, with
uniformly distributed Pb isotopes, then all objects from that pool of
matter should show similar amounts of the isotopes.

Also, over time, the amounts of Pb-206 and Pb-207 will change because as
these isotopes are end-products of uranium decay. This makes the
amount of lead and uranium change. The higher the uranium-to-
lead ratio of a rock, the more the Pb-206/Pb-204 and Pb-207/
Pb-204 values will change with time.

Now, supposing that the source of the Solar system was also uniformly distributed with uranium isotopes, then you can draw a data line showing a lead-
to-uranium plot and, from the slope of the line, the amount of time
which has passed since the pool of matter became separated into
individual objects can be computed.

Bertram Boltwood applied this method of dating to 26 different
samples of rocks, and discovered that they had been formed
between 92 and 570 million years old , and further refinements to
the technique gave ages between 250 million to 1.3 billion years.
Geologists set about exploring the Earth, seeking the oldest rock
formations on the planet.

The oldest surface rock is found in
Canada, Australia and Africa, with ages ranging from 2.5 to 3.8
billion years. The very oldest rock was discovered in Canada in
1999, and estimated to be just over 4 billion years old.

Read more here http://www.universetoday.com/75805/how-old-is-the-earth/

frank317:
I have given my best in my work place, contributed my qota tonmake the business grow. I have shown my siblings and friends the best love I can. I have visited sick loved ones and encouraged them in times of despair. I also give to beggers when touched by their conditions according to what I can give. I have tried talking to people like u out of mental slavery.

Common vooks you should be wiser than this. What were u thinking when u opened this thread?

You owe nobody any explanation i don't know why you bothered

JackBizzle:
I swear, getting fuel will soon be the new testimony!

Here is the point JackBizzle was trying to make.. You wanna troll a bit

T.B Joshua is a serious clown... He identified the location as north and southern part of france.. Thats like the whole country mother fuc_ker

Clear cut and join footage as usual... Nigga is a clown for real i can pull far more impressive stunts myself.

Cc. lalasticlala mynd44

Muafrika2:
I guess so.

So its most likely a case of indecent exposure of private parts (breasts).

In this age there probably is nothing private about the breast anymore

Ok holy spirit arrested the man and the pastor prayed and the alleged "demon" left the man.

so can anyone explain why the breast is still there?

Muafrika2:
@Op The pastor is heartless for parading him
And you are continuing with that act of abuse of the poor man.

The man himself might be part of the deal!!!

Oluwaseytiano:
Superstitious belief has been the bane of greater civilizations. I can only hope Nigerians and Africans see past their foolishness before its too late

I have addressed this many times https://www.nairaland.com/2953357/superstition-bane-nigerian-mind

https://www.nairaland.com/2807124/africans-superstition

https://www.nairaland.com/2405752/plight-ogbanje-witch-children

Once a belief/superstition is detrimental to the intellectual evolution of a community, such superstition is not only dangerous but harmful to the society.

21st century supposedly intelligent humans act less than simpletons, it is not a rare sight to see a mob beating and killing an old woman accusing her of witchcraft.

It is a sad reality but we can do nothing than what is within our power. The power to illuminate is in education.

the pen it is said is mightier than the sword... the internet has provided us a means of combating this without having to engage in physical battles or endangering ourselves.

So anytime you can "write" to educate people the much you can. No matter how many people kick against it (which is expected because ignorance will always kick against new ideas and people will fight the truth to preserve fantasies rooted in their fears)

There must be at least 1 person that it can change for good!!!

"Myth must be taught as myth, fables as fables, to teach superstition as truth is horrifying because a Child's mind accept these and only through great pain or perhaps tragedy can he be free of it"

LoJ:
+ 100

I also made that observation. In the thread of Joseph, there was this adherent of Hinduism claiming that it is not a religion, but a way of life.

What then is a religion?

Hinduism refers to both the Hindi culture (way of life) and also to the religion founded on that very culture (Hinduism)

It can be used to to refer to both differently but Hindiusm (religion) is sorely a religion like every other.

In fact it's myths and philosophies also influenced that of Buddhism, Toaism, Janism.

Well i have been noticing this for long.

-No religion wants to be associated with Religion anymore . it is both funny and curious ..

Cus it begs the question Why is it that no religion wants to be recognized as a religion anymore?

Something must be behind that, why are all desperately trying to remove the tag religion when you are a religion.

"its a way of life" that my friend is what we call Culture not religion and both Christianity and islam is not anybody's culture but are sorely religions

Even the Igbo religion is a religion but a tiny part of the totality of igbo culture..

Well lets keep watching religions run away from being called religions and enjoy the comedy while it lasts..

Imagine Nigeria is not a religious country, Islam and Christianity are both ways of life.. Since when did our culture become Christianity and Islam

That's plain idiocy!!!

Since all religions are desperately trying to exclude themselves from being a religion then my brother we can all agree something is seriously wrong with Religion

Only proper sound Education will save Africans from stupi_d superstitions and mindless idiocy..

This is a medical case of Gynecomastia can be caused by low testosterone in the said individual.

Now just take a look at how it is being used to scam some deluded ignorant lot supposedly humans that exist in the 21st century an era of information.

And people ask why i bother fighting superstition, these beliefs and superstitions are insults to the human intellect and therefore have no place among humans should be discarded.

In the age of information, Ignorance is a choice.. Witchcraft my asss!!!

Nigeria is not a Religious country but it has more than 96% of it's population either Christian or Muslim and up to 2% for other religions

Recognizes Sharia for some part of the country in it's constitution..

Seriously Nigeria is not a religious country??

Only a mor0n would say that ...

I have noticed most people are beginning to exclude their religions from being a religion.

The "tag" religion has become so degraded that even top notch religions will fight tooth and nail to claim they are not a religion ..

this is good We are getting there.

Nobody wants to be classified religious again it is now "Islam is a way of life not a religion, Christianity is not a religion but relationship bla bla bla"

Religions don't want to be religions again!!!

Well i am loving this thread by the way

Lwkmd

Liljeez:
Na latin u dey speak oh

Ok in English buy a telescope ebay or amazon!!!

Dawdy:
I'm disappointed! I Thought I would see real video, only to see animation. when will the people realise that these Nasa Guys Are The Greatest Liars? the sooner they do the better.

You see arguing from Ignorance is one of the worst way to present an argument.

For the fact you were expecting a real video shows you are ignorant of how the observation was made.

Kepler space telescope made the observation and kepler is not a mirror based telescope rather uses a photometer to measure the brightness of stars in a fixed field of space.

It can detect the slightest dim of a star if an object passes in front of it and the reading will suggest if it is a planet, how large, its orbital period and size.

it's detection was the intense sudden increase in a particular stars luminosity and also detected the shock wave that can only mean a star has gone supernova (exploded).

the video is a visual representation of an accurate reading..

The kepler telescope cannot even take pictures talk more of make a video, even the hubble telescope which is a mirror based telescope is not designed to make videos but rather take pictures.

Stop using your ignorance to make a case for an argumentative premise, it's totally uncool!!!

omohjesu:
Lol....I cnt stop laffin o....actually I was asking for a fwend buh he said he used condom sha

I can bet my left ball that this aint about your God damn friend, y'all should stop playing this "it happened to someone i know card" we already know all that shiit.. come out clean nobody is gonna kill you.

I am sure it's you, we have all being in that awkward situation at a point in time so i know exactly how it feels.

Calm down don't be scared... you are safe unless STD i don't know about that

In the year AD 1006 a supernova was seen right here on the earth's night sky many astrologers and natural philosophers of that time described the natural wonder but you as usual there is always a bit of superstition thrown in.

If any of the stars we see in our night sky goes supernova it will lit up our sky in colourful wonder..

NASA have spotted a lot of supernova remnants of many supernovas scattered through out the cosmos but this first hand witness of the explosion itself is a wonderful development.

Man and other living things on this planet are predominantly made of Hydrogen, Carbon, nitrogen and oxygen and these are from the core of stars.

through supernovas these elements are being scattered through the universe making it possible for planets like earth to exist and carbon based living organisms like us to exist.

Supernovas reminds us out of violence comes something beautiful, out of star death came life!!! that is profound!!!

Nice one brother!!!

Donvilo:
In as much as I will admit the fact that science & technology have appeared to have made things a bit easier for man, but based on the knowledge of God's word, I still believe that some things are better left as it is instead of trying to turn it into something that it's not; and NATURE is one of them!
Moral: NEVER TRY TO PLAY GOD WHEN YOU ARE NOT GOD HIMSELF.
Simple.....

Forget the Gods they are still riding horses!!!

CoCoLav:
Have you seen 3D machines that print edible pizza?

Technologies are not necessarily about war and destructions.

He is not really saying Technology is about war, technology has being man's greatest means of development and civilization starting from the first man made stone weapons, sumerian invention of wheels till now.

He is saying that ability is being misused for destructive means and less for the betterment of humanity by some greedy selected few.

They budget more for creating weapons of mass destruction than things we actually need.

Humanity do not need weapons that should kill us, the only reason we have wars is because there are people who make money from wars and there will always be war as long as money is being made from it by the greedy few.

If you look around what our ego, selfish greed and unthinking quest for power has made us LIFE's greatest threat.

This planet is not threatened by Zombies, alien invasions, vampires, religious apocalypses, gods flying down to rapture man or every other fantasy we have imagined.

If you look well enough there is only 1 threat to this planet and all in it and that is Man..

This is either a photoshop or make up.. There is no way the machete could have clean cut the shoulder bone like razor and still had enough force to clean cut more downwards.

And that arm supposedly is separated from the shoulders how the fuc_k is it still intact and not dangling outward..

Anyway the juju of a shiit doesn't work between, if anybody claims he has such powers bring your own machete or gun to test run it lets see how well it works!!!

Politics is a game of ping pong between the elites with the people as the ball and the nation as the board.

APC PDP are just same old senile greedy old men of yesterdays that have squandered their own today and are devouring our tomorrow.

What we are seeing is a game of ping pong of power play, they don't really care about us.

I only pity the youths that chant and massage the egos of these old men under the umbrella of different party but all one stock and quality.

I pity the youths who are selling their tomorrow over a share of #1000 chanting for old men who are destroying their future.

..APC with the way they are going by the way will self destruct .. Only a matter of time.

Sectionalism, regionalism and nepotism will be the trigger APC or no APC that psychological boundary of North and South remains..

RobinHez:
Yeah.. Just like in the movie ROBOCOP. u seen it?

Nope!!

RobinHez:
I diddid

Conclusion we already have cyborgs but we must learn where to draw the curtain !!!

CoCoLav:
No matter how you look at it, we are already cyborgs. Tell me how long you can stay without any form of technology. Read Donna Haraway's 'We are all Cyborgs now" and you will understand. Mentally, technology is already ingrained into our bodies. The only thing left is the physical alteration which will come soon.

Although I am left to wonder, would you call an amputee with robotic legs or hands a cyborg?

Good question and a very delicate one at that... Let me see who get mind answer this one

RobinHez:
Johnydon22

I like the Science Library idea.. It is really brilliant! As it will help people who are interested in this section to find threads to start with.

that was the idea my brother ... Thanks!!! UjSizzle was a huge help!!!

mustfaith:
wtf is this one saying[size=8pt]

Haaaaaaaa that is sukkot brother He talks a lot of nonsense so eloquently that you cannot help but applaud his evily genius

You'll get used to it soon i promise!!!

sukkot baba i salute sir!!!!

DrayZee:
We didn't evolve here.
We were "put" here.
There is no reason why we should be so advanced if we started out the way the other animals did.
Were extraterrestrial.

What's your take on that?

I am always reserved when it comes to origin of species on earth but the bolded i quite disagree with.

There is no reason to what nature does. Reasons are products of humans, our ideas and the meanings we read into things that are ..

It is undisputed that we all are NATURE whether we are extra-terrestrial still point to the fact that entities still differ in intellect.

even here on planet earth, no species are ever exactly alike in terms of intellect does this also make every specie on earth alien to each other.

Intellect can develop, it has developed and it will keep developing that is a fact so whether we are from here or not still doesn't exclude our intellectual abilities from being a product of consistent natural development ..

bigval:
Imagine if ISIS, AL Queda or our dear Boko haram and Fulani herdsmen get a hold of Cyborg tech, they will just be imagining terror and unleashing at the same time

Exactly my brother ..

No matter how beneficial something can be, it can and must also be used for negative ends.

Look down history from Politics to religion and technology!!! Technology if not checked will prove to be the worst of all.

There is no money for food and other technologies that can actually help humans but how come there is always money to fight each other and make weapons that are threats to our existence

i wonder!!!

spacyzuma:
Artificial Intelligence is cool and awesome, but I don't trust it.

Also, if we have Cyborg technology, some humans will still use it to dominate, persecute, alienate, control, manipulate other humans for selfish and financial reasons.

Cyborg technology should wait until we have successfully colonized other worlds and need intelligent machines to help us expand.

But sadly it won't wait, humans are selfish creatures and can never over look an opportunity that can be of value for the selfish gains of that selected few.

Just like Nuclear weapons.

Like guns and bombs were not enough damage, humans went ahead and made nuclear weapons.

hydrogen bombs .. for what??

Our ego and selfishness will be our own undoing!!!

DrayZee:
Be wary of technology. It will destroy us all!

Nature don't really need technology to kill us but technology can either postpone it or make it comes faster than we can ever imagine

26. The lagoon nebula

taurus25:
we should never stop looking tho...i believe somewhere in the universe exist beigns that are different or maybe similar to us.....whats more important is that we preserve our race to maybe be the ones conquer the universe someday

Survival first ..

Nature is a dangerous whole to itself so its always changing for the good or bad (human perspective though )

So surviving is the first thing cus i doubt if the human race will survive that long!!!