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Originally Posted by old-fart
Kasich is yet another religious kook that thinks climate change is " just a theory". When pressed he probably thinks the earth is only 6,000 years old.
Sorry, but if this is the best the Republicans have, they should fold up shop and start over. |
The guy that sprays for bugs around our facility was around yesterday for the monthly spray. On my office wall is a sample of rock salt I collected at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. For those that don't know this is where the US defense nuclear waste is disposed. Under a salt dome in New Mexico. It's a hasn't seen water for 225 million years type of thing. It's pretty neat as the dome has movement so they mine out a room fill it with waste and a handful of years later it is completely encased in a salt barrier.
Anywho...the bag you get to put your rock in says "Permian Rock Salt 225 million years old collected from 2150 feet below ground at the disposal level"
Bug Guy: Can I ask you a question?
Me: Sure
BG: how can this be 225 million years old if the earth is less than 10,000 year old?
Me: The earth is billions of years old
BG: You can choose to believe that theory I guess but when you die....
Me: Look, let me stop you right there. It isn't a "theory"...it is. You may have a book that you think says otherwise and it may even help you in your life. But it isn't a science book. It doesn't pretend to be a science book. Don't use it as a science book.
BG: well everyone has their own opinion. I guess you don't want to hear the truth.
Me: it's really not opinion. It's fact. It is the truth.
And then I had a meeting to go to....
The scary part is I've had that conversation over and over again in the 6+ years I've lived here. I never had it once anywhere else.