Uh, Did You Know That A Billion Years Of Time Are Missing?

How did they know what we were missing in the first place? Apparently, scientists can reconstruct the Earth’s history through fossils, rocks, and other trinkets preserved in the ground. Experts have found a giant lapse in the Earth’s history through the lack of evidence. The missing time, called The Great Unconformity, exceeds one billion years in some places. This means that some 550 million-year-old rocks are found that date back 1.7 billion years, but no other traces from the years in between were found. Learn more about this missing chunk of time here.

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Ever notice how every branch of science is an inaccurate science that gets updated every day, but when they put out documentaries stating exactly what everything is and exactly how old everything is, you're supposed to blindly accept it as fact, until they release the next documentary? I duno, maybe I'm just crazy. Yes, that's probably it.

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Look in the couch. Lost things always end up in the couch cushions.

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The Vice article was very interesting.
BTW, your copy/paste missed a few words in this sentence: "550 million-year-old rocks sitting atop ancient layers that date back 1.7 billion years" (probably because of the link in the original text).