On 23 April 2014 11:37, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> "I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for
> billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the
> slightest inconvenience from it."'
>     --- Mark Twain
>

Did Mark Twain really say that? I thought the age of the Eartfr was
estimated to be millions of years (as in "The Time Machine") around the end
of the 19th century, but I don't know what people thought the age of the
universe was.

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