Re: grat barier reef dying, silted and over fertilised and suffering from occasional fevers

["Denver Fletcher" <denver@paradise.net.nz>]

Tim Scrivens wrote in message <9foumq$4sl$1@hermes.nz.eds.com>...
>"~~ jp turcaud ~~" <henri.airaud@poglio.com> wrote in message
>news:9fop5s$gob$1@fenris.isp.9tel.net...
>> Dear Carman,
>> What I want to tell you now is in complete privacy and confidenciality
>> indeed .... Your Great Barier Reef is not older than 12 ky at the most
...
>> indeed Australia - the land of the parrots as known in old time on
Chinese
>> maps - emerged from the sea about that time . The level reached by the
sea
>> then, previous to the immediate lowering of the ocean through a
process I
>> will explain later on my new web site, was 400 m above present sea
level
>> .... as for the Snow White Mountains well well ... they rose quite a
bit
>> during this process and somewhere around that place, are the proofs of
>> pre-Historci Harbour facilitiies which I discovered a few years back
using
>> the RP Poindemard's  light skiming technique !!! I have already
proposed _
>> without raising the least interest of course from the Gogologists _
that
>> those facilities were contemporary of the Tihuanaco high sea harbour
>> facilities bordering the lake Titicaca now !!! Of course I will leave
>those
>> bright Gogologist of the ANU to find it again ... since admitedly
finding
>> things is so easy !!! [ of course it is always said after discovery
made
>! ]
>
>OK, so you don't believe in carbon dating?  I know that you have severe
>fixations about geology, but I did not know that you had the same
worries
>about nuclear physics.  After all, the half-life of a chemical element
is
>provable (even at home, with a bit of effort and risk), and the
mathematics
>from there are easy.
>
>There are rock paintings in Australia dated to 45k years old, and the
paint
>is water soluble.  Difficult to paint if they are 200 m underwater.


Yes, and I've seen them, complete with perspex covers "to protect them
from the rain".

While I find many of jp's ideas decidedly odd myself, you haven't said
anything here.

There are well-known variables in carbon and other decay based dating
techniques. I am sure an expert like yourself will be familiar with them.