Waiting for the descendants to file a lawsuit against Fox.

It's a Twonky.

FirstNationalBastard: Eh, it was probably just made by some Stonecutter.

Its the Stone of Triumph!

Also, the guy in the article looks like Homer too.

How does Scotland look like Homer Simpson?

Some things are best left buried. This cannot possibly end well.

Didn't they watch the Brady Bunch Hawaii episode?

FTFA: Our sons took it to St Andrews Museum and they were completely amazed by it. They said that they would try and carbon date it

Shenanigans.

1. No interview with anyone from the Museum to confirm the story
2. You can't carbon date a rock morons.

Maybe if Homer took his helmet off on Mars..

jvl: FTFA: Our sons took it to St Andrews Museum and they were completely amazed by it. They said that they would try and carbon date it

Shenanigans.

1. No interview with anyone from the Museum to confirm the story
2. You can't carbon date a rock morons.

But you can radiometric date it. That will show when the carving was done. It's also called radiocarbon dating. I think they'll find it was carved last week.

jvl: You can't carbon date a rock morons.

What rock morons may look like...

Elvis did it.

800 years old? So about season 4 or 5?

What an 800 year old Stone may look like.

That was stupid, it doesn't even look like Homer.

No it doesn't.

The All-Powerful Atheismo: 800 years old? So about season 4 or 5?

I LOLed. To think it first appeared on the Tracy Ullman show before my nuts dropped. Next year I'll be half way towards death according to the actuary tables. That's a chunk of my life it's been on. I should probably watch an episode at some point.

Don't depictions of human faces all tend to converge as they're simplified?

:-)

Kurmudgeon: What rock morons may look like...

No one knows who they were or what they were doing, but their legacy remains hewn into the living rock.

r1niceboy: But you can radiometric date it. That will show when the carving was done. It's also called radiocarbon dating. I think they'll find it was carved last week.

How does radiometric dating tell the date the rock was carved, rather than just the age of the rock?

JesseL: Don't depictions of human faces all tend to converge as they're simplified?

:-)

What you mean "all", white man?

¦-)

Coelacanth: It's a Twonky.

No, that's a kwyjibo.

martid4: At least it wasn't another mother farking Jesus!

Looks like the Virgin Mary to me.

/you gotta figure there's a reason she was still a virgin

JesseL: r1niceboy: But you can radiometric date it. That will show when the carving was done. It's also called radiocarbon dating. I think they'll find it was carved last week.

How does radiometric dating tell the date the rock was carved, rather than just the age of the rock?

The last layer of dirt of various types in the pores will have been exposed to the air at the time it was carved as would layers of dirt on top. It's unlikely it was carved in a hermetically sealed environment, so the carbon in the dirt would have been exposed to the oxygen in the air at that time. That affects the the element carbon 14, which starts to deteriorate as do all radioactive elements. We know the half-life of carbon14, which is really common. If samples across the sculpture all date to 800 years, the couple who found it are right. If the samples aren't consistent, or compromised, it'll be undetermined as to the age. If the carbon14 is a month old, well, someone should be getting a call from the police.

I know this because my ex-girlfriend did, and probably still does, this for a living. She explained it to me. She even told me about how certain types of stone are easier to date because they're more porous. If this is sandstone, and it looks like it, it should be easy to date. Sandstone is really porous. They might be able to find calcium deposits in it from rainfall from 800 years back (if real) and determine the amount of acid in the rain. That'll tell whether the fires burned at the time were wood fires or peat burned.

Hey, Miyazaki called... he wants his Kodama back.

TheOther: How does Scotland look like Homer Simpson?

This. How works does sentence structure?

The ear is way to big, It's got forhead worry lines and no sprouts of hair. The eyes are not big and round. The nose is totally different and the mouth is largely dissimilar.

So other than the ears, hair, forehead, eyes, nose, and mouth it looks just like Homer Simpson. Amazing!

HELP NEEDED FROM FARK!!!

OK, does any Farker have the first season of The Simpsons on DVD? Specifically, I am looking for the wording from Matt Groening about how DVDs will be outdated by the time The Simpsons is finished. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

imprimere: I am looking for the wording from Matt Groening about how DVDs will be outdated by the time The Simpsons is finished.

Well I'd wager that we are exploring the galaxy or even that we have transcended into non-corporeal energy beings by the time the Simpsons is finished.

TheOther: How does Scotland look like Homer Simpson?

The British Isles look like a goth anime girl...

The All-Powerful Atheismo: imprimere: I am looking for the wording from Matt Groening about how DVDs will be outdated by the time The Simpsons is finished.

Well I'd wager that we are exploring the galaxy or even that we have transcended into non-corporeal energy beings by the time the Simpsons is finished.

No doubt. That show will run until the Futurama transition makes sense.

Anyway, the reason that the message from Groening was so funny is that he was basically telling people they were suckers for buying it (or something to that effect). It was pretty comical as I recall.

I better call my buddy who is an expert on 800-year old stone heads shaped like Homer Simpson.

everything old is new again

r1niceboy:

But you can radiometric date it. That will show when the carving was done. It's also called radiocarbon dating. I think they'll find it was carved last week.

In a carefully controlled excavation you might be able to. I have a feeling that is not how it was dug up.

That what Homer looks like after eating one of Moe's Pickled Eggs.

Kurmudgeon: jvl: You can't carbon date a rock morons.

What rock morons may look like...
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