I own some rocks that are likely billions of years old
That’s cool. I want to travel to the Canadian Northern islands someday and see the rocks there, which are likely that old. Some deposits on Michigan’s upper peninsula also date back to the Hadean, apparently.
Aren’t most(all?) rocks billions of years old? Are we making new rocks?
We are in areas of high volcanism!
I was in Iceland a few months ago, and in some areas the rocks are only tens of years old. There are entire plains of lava flows that are only a few thousand years old. (Same for Hawaii, too.)
Rocks can grow baby rocks that grow mini rocks.
I have three extremely good condition $2 US bills from the 50s before they started printing “In God We Trust” on them.
I own land. It’s been there all along.
My house, built in 1880.
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It’s a very very very fine house.
Petrified wood, about 225 million years old.
By this logic, my oldest possessions are my protons, which are approximately the same age as the universe.
You mean “proton”?
You would have to expound. I understand that protons are identical to each other, but I’ve never heard that they’re somehow all one particle.
That was a theory I read years ago. The idea is, that there is only one photon which exists more or less outside of time and so is everywhere a Proton would be expected.
Edit: was actually about electrons
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universeThe one-electron universe postulate, proposed by theoretical physicist John Wheeler in a telephone call to Richard Feynman in the spring of 1940, is the hypothesis that all electrons and positrons are actually manifestations of a single entity moving backwards and forwards in time.
The diamond in my wife’s engagement ring is more than a billion years old.
It would be cool if we could ID which exploding star it came from.
Diamonds are produced in the earth’s crust. The gold in that ring though…
the elements that eventually ended up in earth’s crust had to come from somewhere
and i just realized that by this logic everything is actually as old as the universe
I’ve got some rocks on a shelf from the Permian. So a little older than 250 million years.
My birth certificate ☺️
A 17th century bible.
Blue Bear.
When I was maybe 3 (I don’t remember personally, I heard this story years later), my sister who was 9 at the time had this stuff bear. Blue fur, not much special about it, just an average stuffed bear. One day I decided I liked the bear more, and declared it mine. I was 3, that’s what 3 year olds do. A great fight ensued, but since I was the baby Mom told my sister to just let me have it. It was stolen a few times, and stolen back a few more times. And then hidden away for a great many years. Until one day in our 30s, going through my old toy box at my father’s house, hidden under some old report cards and junk toys, laid Blue Bear. And a great fight ensued, only this time with words and the occasional hip check into the wall to grab and dash. My step mother stepped in to tell us the smarten up and just give me the bear. And that was the first time I actually appreciated my step mother for something. She bought my sister whiskey to make up for it, but we all knew who won that day.
Blue Bear now sits in my living room display case.
My daughter had my first teddy bear. It’s 56 years old
you don’t own it though… you stole it from your sister, who loves you. bonehead.
Spoils of war, my dude. Besides, in the grand scheme of things, she’s had more wins than I have. The bear is mine, now and forever.
1855 handbook from the freemasons detailing their rituals, imagery, ranks, and more.
A cast iron pan that I inherited from my grandmother is around 100 years old.
License plates from 1925. I’m tempted to put them on my car in a year because they simply say 25 on them.
1929 My house
197X My keychain
1993 My first guitar
1995 My car1993 My first guitar
1995 My carSee kids? Don’t start playing guitar or you’ll end up like this guy.
It’s a volvo so it simply won’t die. It’s likely to be replaced this upcoming spring, though.
What’s left of my Bionicle collection.
I feel there’s a story you want to tell
I would like to hear it
My knees.
