NYCPHP Meetup

[David Mintz]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Rahmin Pavlovic wrote:

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> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 13:20 , David Mintz <dmintz at davidmintz.org> sent:
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> >No, not the word "dirt," but its referent -- the substance itself! (-:
> >
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> I've thought about this, and I can't mentally separate 'dirt' from 'the earth'.
> So, assuming our planet was as torrential as venus, I would assume that 'dirt'
> came into existence once the storms died down.


Yeah, I would assume that the very early Earth is too hot for dirt to
exist as such, and that it forms some time after things cool down, and
that there's a technical term for that period -- a term one could throw
around next time someone uses the expression "older than dirt" (-:

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