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Eat lead (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Where is the proof about these magic numbers? Checkmate atheist. /s

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

All math is a lib lie! Just look at those blasphemous arabic numerals!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago

round numbers are always made up. change my mind

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Lead 204 is entirely primordial and the other isotopes found on earth would be found at roughly the same concentration were all of the lead on earth primordial. It's the excess ratios of the other isotopes of lead that can be attributed to radioactive decay. That is a substantial proportion of the lead on earth, but to say the "existence of lead" is proof of the age of the earth is entirely incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_lead

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

But the half life of polonium 210 is just 138 days. other is a few days. radium 226 is 1602 years. Why couldn't the earth have started with a lot of radium 226? Checkmate round earthers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

Could have started with lead directly. Why go the extra mile.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Göbekli Tepe

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

"God made the world with lead in it"

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is decay the only way to get lead? I mean if uranium gets synthesized can't lead get made as well?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Radioactive decay is not the only way to make lead, and lead is produced in much greater abundance than uranium.

The part that's missing in the post is in looking specifically at uranium deposits and making assumptions about the initial composition of the deposits, since the crystalline structure excludes lead when the crystals form. So if you detect lead contained within zircon, it is assumed to be the product of radioactive decay.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

There's evidence of human civilization and agriculture going back at least 10,000 years. You have to be extremely willfully ignorant to think the earth is only 4,000 years old. Hell the pyramid of Giza is older than that.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

WERE YOU THERE TO SEE IT???? - The next moronic rebuttal

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

We obviously live in a matrix/simulated world, and it can't be older than 50 years, because before that, computers didn't exist. Checkmate christians.

/jk

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