3205: Carbon Dating

Carbon Dating

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Title text: This dating is corroborated by the presence of stone tools at the site, rather than earlier and less effective helium ones.

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[Ponytail, standing, is pointing at a blackboard containing a drawing of a skull and some bones/bone fragments, as well as a graph and some lines of text. She is speaking to Cueball and Megan, who are standing beside her.]

The high carbon content of the skeleton indicates that the individual lived less than 13.6 billion years ago, after the first round of stellar nucleosynthesis.

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Cosmologist carbon dating

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F10st p0st! 185.36.194.156 04:45, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

First explanation! Hopefully it's fine... (also, nice TCMP reference.)--Utdtutyabthsc (talk) 06:00, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

Oh, was that a deliberate reference? Why isn't it spelled the same way? What does "F10st" even mean? Elizium23 (talk) 06:58, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

Go read the comment section for 3135: Sea Level if you want to see more of this. K9Dragon23, or RainWingSquares (talk) (talk) 00:40, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

Semi-deliberate, but more spirit of the law than letter of the law since early internet trolling is (was?) a common theme here anyways lol; the 0 was a typo 185.36.194.156 10:04, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

It is though getting a little tiresome and repeatable that someone has begun writing first post on all talk pages... Please stop it ;-) --Kynde (talk) 13:19, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

31Gth!!! 82.13.184.33 14:54, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

How about next time we troll for 3rd post instead (game theory time) 185.36.194.156 09:09, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

I'm all for carbon dating, but I wouldn't want one to marry my sister. 24.123.140.66 13:52, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

I also was expecting that kind of pun when I saw the title. Barmar (talk) 15:10, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

You'd rather she settled down with a nice silica-based lifeform? 82.13.184.33 15:20, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

I figured that carbon dating was the process by which paleontologists analyze prospective mates to determine their chronological compatibility. Jordan Brown (talk) 01:36, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

That's a dating platform exclusively for archeologists and soda producers 195.65.24.115 (talk) 06:51, 13 February 2026 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Waggles eyebrows and waves cigar. --Zaphod Beebledoc (talk) 21:24, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Is the skeleton being studied a cosmologist? 2605:A601:80AF:4000:2A74:9789:42F0:2275 14:35, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

LAST C0MMENT! 164.134.137.45 12:02, 11 February 2026 (UTC) (redbuns)

Ummm... if we are talking about cosmologists, shouldn't the tools be metal, since all non-hydrogen, non-helium elements are metals in astronomy? 18.117.72.81 (talk) 14:29, 11 February 2026 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Actually, if you cool down helium enough it becomes a liquid, and if you increase the pressure enough it becomes a solid. But it needs to be very cold and high pressure. 185.220.101.37 23:30, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

An episode of Mythbusters investigated the "killer icicle" trope and found it to have some merit. Now to freeze helium, and get it solid, and somehow wield it as a tool, requires quite a technology stack, doesn't it! Elizium23 (talk) 23:41, 11 February 2026 (UTC)

Including, probably, some very good gloves! 81.179.199.253 00:29, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

I believe "less effective helium ones" suggest use helium existence to determinate when the tool have been made. Out Universe create Helium ~3-20 min after the Big Bang (Based on Google). So as it suggest, it's less precise then the present of Carbon. (We can only difference it with presence of Hydrogen, which is the 1st element made after the Big Bang.--185.149.195.107 22:57, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
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