SternM to Neat - For neat stuff you foundEnglish • 4 months ago'Please save it for me': Scientist carbon dates his own kidney stone to find out when it formedwww.abc.net.auexternal-linkmessage-square4arrow-up135arrow-down10
arrow-up135arrow-down1external-link'Please save it for me': Scientist carbon dates his own kidney stone to find out when it formedwww.abc.net.auSternM to Neat - For neat stuff you foundEnglish • 4 months agomessage-square4
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•4 months agoI don’t think that’s how carbon dating works. Unless it’s gotten extremely accurate recently.
minus-square@TexasDrunklinkEnglish7•4 months agoThree weeks ago Thursday, plus or minus a few hundred years. Obviously I’m talking shit, but I was under the impression that the newer something is the less accurate carbon dating it would be.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-24 months agoHe used the bomb pulse which is dated off carbon 14 from nuclear bomb tests in the 50s. It’s written in the article.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•4 months agoRight, that’s how they usually do it. Idk apparently he could date to 15 years ago. I guess it’s gotten much more accurate lately.
I don’t think that’s how carbon dating works.
Unless it’s gotten extremely accurate recently.
Three weeks ago Thursday, plus or minus a few hundred years.
Obviously I’m talking shit, but I was under the impression that the newer something is the less accurate carbon dating it would be.
He used the bomb pulse which is dated off carbon 14 from nuclear bomb tests in the 50s. It’s written in the article.
Right, that’s how they usually do it.
Idk apparently he could date to 15 years ago. I guess it’s gotten much more accurate lately.