"C is for cookie" apparently isn't good enough for cookie monster anymore. CNN reports that the googly eyed lovable creature that scoffs down plates of cookies (plate included) is now on a health kick suggesting "A Cookie Is a Sometimes Food"
I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles. At some stage, elmo will grow up and not be nauseatingly sweet anymore, bert will no longer discriminate in favour of pigeons and like ALL feathered creatures, and the twiddlebugs will become big to avoid being abused because of their size. "It's rayhhhingg.. It's rayyhhniinng"
While still at CNN, I came across this interesting celebration of the world's oldest thing. A piece of zircon crystal believed to be the oldest known piece of earth. Which begs the question - "are there parts of the earth which are new ?"
I remember a science experiment in school whereby something was set on fire in a box. And the mass of the space in the box was supposed to remained the same, because it just took on a different form. Isn't EVERYTHING on earth part of the oldest parts of earth being 'recycled' over and over again ?
The other question which came to mind after reading the article was that scientists suggest that the earliest evidence for liquid water was 3.8billion years ago.
3.8 billion years.
That's when life was sustainable. Yet scientific evidence for neanderthal man walking the earth was just 230,000 years ago. Say the science was screwed up and missed by a factor of 10. That's still 2.3 million years ago.
3.8 bn - 2.3 m = a lot of time that the earth was around when man wasn't.
I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles. At some stage, elmo will grow up and not be nauseatingly sweet anymore, bert will no longer discriminate in favour of pigeons and like ALL feathered creatures, and the twiddlebugs will become big to avoid being abused because of their size. "It's rayhhhingg.. It's rayyhhniinng"
While still at CNN, I came across this interesting celebration of the world's oldest thing. A piece of zircon crystal believed to be the oldest known piece of earth. Which begs the question - "are there parts of the earth which are new ?"
I remember a science experiment in school whereby something was set on fire in a box. And the mass of the space in the box was supposed to remained the same, because it just took on a different form. Isn't EVERYTHING on earth part of the oldest parts of earth being 'recycled' over and over again ?
The other question which came to mind after reading the article was that scientists suggest that the earliest evidence for liquid water was 3.8billion years ago.
3.8 billion years.
That's when life was sustainable. Yet scientific evidence for neanderthal man walking the earth was just 230,000 years ago. Say the science was screwed up and missed by a factor of 10. That's still 2.3 million years ago.
3.8 bn - 2.3 m = a lot of time that the earth was around when man wasn't.
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