On 23 April 2014 22:29, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Liz, > > The "billions" make sense to me, to be honest. Even before the earth, we > still didn't exist. It sounds like poetic liberty for "a mind blowing > amount of time". > Sure, but I think at the time "millions of years" was a mind-blowing amount of time - actually it still is - and it would appear the comment doesn't have any known source. So although I'd be happily proved wrong on this, it just feels a bit anachronistic for Samuel Clemens. Maybe just my personal bias. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
