Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 03, 2016

No wonder St. Anthony’s the patron saint of lost objects.

Luckily, I have a lifetime supply of Q-Tips.

The earth smelled like sulfur dioxide.

Mind you, deviled eggs and beer were the primary staple.

You sure that wasn’t supposed to be 2 BILLION years ago? http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130503-gunflintia-bacteria-early-earth-rotten-egg-smell/

What was Tony drinking? Does the earth smell if there is no one there to notice?

OK, what happened 2 million years ago? Now, if they had said two billion years ago, I would have believed it.

don’t trust the supposed “age” they rate things, cause they use incredibly inaccurate time dating methodology that is only good enough to refute one thing while something else refutes it, WE cannot be certain of a specific time even say 1 million years ago let alone supposed billions of years back, why, we do not have definitive infallible scientific proof of such things, you know, same test can be repeated every time with the same results.

Vast majority of “age/time/distance” is speculation nothing more which is really not that hard to have one small bit of calculation throw everything off.

From Tadchem’s link;

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In the process, the microbes formed gaseous carbon dioxide, which would have been released into the atmosphere.

Another byproduct of this biochemical process is hydrogen sulfide, which produces a stench commonly known as “the rotten egg smell,” explained Martin Brasier, a paleobiologist at Oxford University in London.

“The whole world didn’t smell of rotten eggs,” said Brasier, “but if you had a sensitive nose, it would have been very widespread indeed.”

Kind of like what parts of St. Louis smells like today! ☺

I’d read that early earth was covered in methane and ammonia. But I’m more curious why the body feels that cerumen is a defensive barrier.

Earwax is secreted by a modified sweat gland. So, anything that makes you perspire heavily can increase earwax production.

That explains why my ears plugged up on Nov 9th!

Are they sure that was his “tongue”?

Then it’s a good thing we’re living only a million years ago.