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Originally Posted by matthewmunari
Ted, you say you study theoretical physics at NYU, is Kaku one of your professors???
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not NYU homes, close tho.
Suny Stony Brook, its a very good biology school.
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Originally Posted by matthewmunari
to become a fossil, you have to be killed, or die, in a substance that will preserve your essence/dna... its unlikely that any of us will be fossils, but there are 5 + billion people waiting to die in a setting that will preserve their essence..look at all of the insect/dinosaur fossils...
PLENTY of them...
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your funny matt. it is cool that you show an interest in learning. however some of your ideas are a little off :P . fossils, at least the good type of fossils are actually bone that have deposited in a layer of sediment (this is essential) in an ancient sea bed. as the bone decays it is replaced atom for atom by certain minerals in the sediment, basically making a perfect stone replica, there is no dna there, it is simply an exact stone replica of the bone. you are right, the conditions for a perfect fossil to be made are rare, especially because the fossils can only be found if they are somehow uplifted by tectonic plate movement and placed where people can find them. this is why Olduvai gorge is so rich in fossils, because its where there are colliding tectonic plates which uplift the fossils and there used to be water there thousands of years ago.