• @[email protected]
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    112 months ago

    I don’t think that’s how carbon dating works.
    Unless it’s gotten extremely accurate recently.

    • @TexasDrunk
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      72 months ago

      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.

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      2 months ago

      He used the bomb pulse which is dated off carbon 14 from nuclear bomb tests in the 50s. It’s written in the article.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 months ago

        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.