Mars Rock Older Than Thought 37
Rambo Tribble writes "The BBC reports on a finding, reported in Nature, (abstract), that the so-called 'Black Beauty' rock, discovered in the Sahara, is over twice as old as previously thought. The meteorite is now thought to be 4.4 billion years old, dating from a time in a nascent Mars' history that scientists are eager to know more about."
This rock is so old... (Score:4, Funny)
...it's older than thought itself!
Proof that thinking is a recent occurence ... (Score:5, Funny)
"...Older than thought". ...
Humans became a sentient species only recently, on the geological time scale.
So a rock being older that thought itself, is not so surprising.
Now, what was I just thinking about?
My head feels heavy, like a rock