Hello My G + M Apes! Today, I’m helping raise money for a friend of the channel, Dr. Jon Baker. Jon has provided the breakdown of the funds needed and their purpose, below.
PayPal donations welcome at:
ageofrocks@gmail.com
Brief description of trip and purpose:
The diverse landscapes of the Transcaucasus have long served as a natural bridge between Europe and Asia for hominin groups, known to have intermittently occupied the region since ~2.2 million years ago but especially during the Middle–Upper Paleolithic (~130–12,000 years ago), when humans expanded from the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Plateau into the plains of Eurasia (modern Ukraine/Russia). In this study, we aim to elucidate gaps in the archeological record from geological proxies, as well as provide a detailed climate history of the Armenian Highlands.
We are raising funds to cover the bare minimum expenses (travel, accommodation, and supplies) for two research tasks:
• Reconnaissance field work to identify cave sites in the Armenian Highlands that could help answer our research questions. Supplies are needed to collect preliminary samples and set up devices to monitor the cave environment (10 days, 1 person; $2,264 total budget)
• Laboratory work to complete the last step of a Masters Thesis project in Geology, studying the paleoclimate of this region. Two cave samples (stalagmites) will be analyzed by Laser Ablation ICP-MS, an instrument used to measure the concentration of elements along the length of each sample at exceptionally high resolution (2 days, 1 persons; $1,909 total budget)
Our research group utilizes speleothems to reconstruct climatic and environmental change through time. Speleothems are mineral formations in caves, such as stalagmites and flowstones, and their precise chemical composition is connected to the surface environment by the rain and snow that slowly infiltrates through the rock and drips into the cave. Layer by layer, we can unravel that history with the help of advanced instrumentation that can determine both the abundance and isotopic ratios of key elements. In this project, we will further explore the use of biomarkers and ancient DNA left by organisms living in or above the cave.
Breakdown of budget:
A full itemized budget can be viewed here:
Field work for myself (10 days, 1 person):
Roundtrip train to Vienna, airfare to Yerevan, baggage, accommodation, and minimal food allowance: $1,592
Supplies for water/mineral collection: $98
Two automated data loggers suitable for cave environments: $575
Lab work for MS Student (2 days, 1 person):
Roundtrip train to Mainz, Germany: $230
Hotel (2 nights): $230
Food allowance: $69
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Damn, Erika. Your tribute to McQueen made me tear up. And made me more disgusted with SFT
I walked into a bar one day and asked the bar keep for an elucidated cognizant.
She looks up at me and says one minute.
Walks away and returns with a little box and say here you go.
The box reads warning, one lewd and lascivious ant.
When I open the box it's covered in chocolate.
4:52:41 Jon, as an Aussie I just want to say we are not all this stupid or full of hubris
hardly you just cannot have something come from nothing
evolutionist do these self appointmented victories in vain
Man, I love a Zalgo-text. F̴̨̢̨͙̟͍̖̟̗͈̻̟̪̔̍͆̀̄̽̾̏̉͘͘ͅú̴̘͙̜̍͌͆̉̃̾͝͝n̸̢̻̺͎̼͚̱͎̝͎̘̟̼͒̄̓̂͋̈́̅̓̑͊́̓͌̽͘͘͜͠d̸͍̞̲͈̺͓̱̺̱͈̝͈̣͈̞͇̂̀̇̈́̊̋͐̕͠ͅr̵̻͒̏̔̒̇̈́̎́͠͝͝ą̴͚̥̟̖͎̩̻̻͍̀̂̀́̐̂̅͝͝ȉ̶̱̬̠̳͈̪̠̠̩̺͖̻̞̌̓̊̈́͛̿͒̽̐̍̂̑̚͘͝s̴͔̤̪̪̞̣̞̻͆͂͒͘͘̕͝į̵̹̭͍͖̫͖̠̗̻͉̪͋̒́̔ǹ̶̨͍̝͈̪̩͉̖͜ͅg̷̪̭̲͎̒
Do any of you understand perception?
The one thing that really upsets my brain and the information in it is listening to supposed smart people> my reaction is always negative when I hear a stupid question.
Why does everything look as if it is going away from us if we are not the center of the universe?
That is by far the most stupid question I have ever heard coming from someone in the public eye, trying to educate the public.
You can only see the radius of your perspective.
There fore, when it comes to sight, you are the center of perception. And yes, everything is based on what you see.
In space Earth is the center of perception because it is where we are looking from.
Thank Zeus for this crew!
ggg failed again
Ask how those huge crystal towers they found were created in 4 to 6 thousand years ago.
Jordan clearly doesn't know Spider-Man lore.
Erika, you play Monster Hunter?? You're the best
4:48:51 not sure if it's been pointed out, but there's some lovely classism thrown in as well. When talking about tour guides, people receiving social support payments (aka the dole) are mentioned (and therefore classified as ignorant or uneducated).
At 3:14:00 I’m unsure what the significance of the cracks are, could someone fill me in?
Whenever a creationist tries to tell you what science or a scientist says, you can almost guarantee that they are lying.
@48:00 Creationist six education in a youth camp by exchanging cards where the names of STD's are printed on? Do they really do that in the United States? As a European I can't tell how surreal this sounds.
1:28:05 No, obviously it makes it Abyssal. Infernal is Devil speech, not Demon speech. Smh
I wanted to add to the radiocarbon discussion (the first Rob Carter appearance).
Another reason we will never and actually CAN never measure ¹⁴C as definitively zero is because radioactive elements decay by half lives.
So, you can imagine that philosophical exercise of cutting a one-meter line in half, then half again. And you could keep cutting each resultant smaller line in half further and further, sent you would still never actually reach zero meters.
(For the pedants out there (myself included!), there is a smallest possible length and that is the Planck Length, but philosophically, the thought exercise still stands.)
And, so it is with every radioactive element that decays.
Incidentally, every element in the universe is radioactive and decays at its own rate measured in half lives. We only call elements like Carbon (¹²C) stable because their half lives are so long, (some can be longer than the age of the universe) that it would be impractical in most cases to even try to measure them. So we just consider them stable because they won't be decaying (or rather, they won't reach one half-life) for a long, long time!
1:27:00 As an Akron resident, there's a WHAT?!
Brit here.
I love Erica. I also love puns. Sorry.
Along with myths and metaphors, the Hebrew Bible (the ‘Old Testament’ to Christians) is impossible to fully comprehend unless one understands Hebrew puns. While there may be fewer puns in the Christian Bible (the ‘New Testament), they are often hidden in plain sight. One such is the description of “Thomas the Twin, also known as Didymus.”
Thomas is the Hellenic Greek rendering of Thom, a Hebrew/Aramaic word meaning ‘twin’, whereas Didymus is the Hellenic Greek word for …. twin. So that Gospel verse was referring to “Twin the Twin, also called Twin’.
Triple pun. Take that Erica. 😘
If the little gibbon knew how often science has debunked its own Arguments and myths, she wouldn't waste her time making such ridiculous claims.