Sharks have survived for around 450 million years. That makes them older than:
North Star, aka Polaris (~70 MYO)
Saturn's rings (~100 MYO)
The Atlantic Ocean (~150 MYO)
One galactic orbit (200-225 MY)
Trees (390 MYO)
Discussion
How do you even know that?
Carbon dating and astrophysics?
Carbon dating also said the rocks of the newly formed lava dome in the crater of Mt. St. Helens are 350,000 years old
Somebody dug up the fossil of a shark from 450 million years ago?
Carbon dating is kind of like S2F. Best taken with a grain of salt, especially for predictions in the hundreds of millions of years
DNA has a half life of 521 years, after 1000 years, 75% of DNA is gone, after 7 million years, every single base pair is gone, how do you determine something that is 400X older than that?
checkmate, lopp
I laugh a little when I hear timelines like that. Iβm not saying that those things arenβt that old, but I doubt the implicit rigid accuracy.
They must be telling each other the tales of the ancient times when nothing existed but their Atlantis
I learned something today π
I feel way older than that shark, when people try to tell me about how cool it is to put pictures on a blockchain.
How much or little have they evolved then? Whereβs Darwin, does he has Nostr
your reasoning killed those bullshit facts
Wow. Good facts.
sharks are older than trees π€―