@pluralistic And if you want to dive down a rabbit hole, there's the set of interrelationships between economics, law, property, externalities, religion, monopoly, and oil through the Rule of Capture, Texas case law, Union Oil, Biola University (Bible Institute of Los Angeles), Lyman Stewart, the science of geology (and its joined-at-the-crotch relationship with the oil industry), the Fundamentals (of Christian Fundamentalism), young-earth creationism, Harold Hotelling, University of Chicago, Standard Oil, Hotelling's Rule (of natural resources pricing ... which does not in fact describe pricing behaviour).

https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/99662418097389845

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5w1zw3/rule_of_capture_fort_stockton_texas_groundwater/

(Inspired back on G+ when someone asked if there might be any relationship between the oil industry and religious-based denials of evolution, age of the earth, and of course, anthropogenic climate change. Yes. Yes there is...)

#RuleOfCapture #LymanStewart #UnionOil #BiolaUniversity #HotellingsRule #theFundamentals #ChicagoSchool

Lead, and what it does (and doesn't) tell you about the age of the Earth

The fact that we can estimate the Earth's age, over a 4.5 billion year span, to within 1% accuracy, is pretty flippin' amazing.

And yes, lead plays a role. Though some people get that wrong.

Anywho, if you're into that sort of thing:

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/9e5739104e4b0139d8fb002590d8e506

#Science #ScienceBitches #AccurateScienceIsBetterScience #AgeOfTheEarth #Lead #Creationism #Fundamentalism #LymanStewart #RedShift #CepheidVariables #RadiometricDating #geology