In the space of 176 years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself 242 miles. That is an average of a trifle over 1-1/3 miles a year. Therefore any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of 1,300,00 miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing rod. And by the same token any person can see that 742 years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only 1-3/4 miles long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together…There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
That, my friends, is why I like science :-D
1 comment:
Ya I know man.. it's almost as bad as the evolutionary idea that the age of fishes was about 350,000,000 years ago; which happens to be at a time when the oceans were completely nonexistent accordibg to thier theory of a certain amout of water being added to them every year..... you gotta love logical thought processes!!!!
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