Talk:3008: Proterozoic Rocks
So the last panel refers to the unseen birth of a rock? How are rocks even born?:
- Farther - does is mean father back, or further ahead in time? If ahead it could mean Randall do not think there will be any eyes left to see in 500 million years time. Which is not unlikely. Earth will not stay inhabitable much longer than that (probably 800 million years, then the seas will have evaporated). --Kynde (talk) 08:30, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
A few ways. Fusion likely formed many elements, and neutron star death possibly the rest of the naturally occurring ones. When those started sticking together they would form rocks. The type likely being referred to here is probably sediment being compressed and former a cohesive stone, magma crystalizing, or compression of the latter two types of rocks into different types of rocks. 172.71.124.222 06:52, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
I think in this context it was by up welling magma and they are only rare because plate tectonics and erosion has recycled 99.9X% of them. RIIW - Ponder it (talk) 07:58, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
Makes me think of the manga Houseki No Kuni (Land of the Lustrous) and how effortlessly it depicts thousands and millions of years passing in a blink. 162.158.159.228 08:00, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
Guess Randall didn't want to acknowledge the results. Can't say I blame him. Caliban (talk) 08:16, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
