If we didn't have such a stupid national anthem maybe more people would show some desire to sing it. Seriously, can anyone think of a country with a worse national anthem than Britain? Why can't we have a song about the country- not about some old frumpy parasite that is descended from people who abused and pillaged the people of the country?
Hmmm... just realized... Japan's is probably worse: ♫May your reign Continue for a thousand, eight thousand generations, Until the pebbles Grow into boulders Lush with moss♫ How do you make pebbles grow? Pebbles get smaller over time as they are worn down... not larger. The earth will continually make new boulders... but they will be new entities.
Not really, Milk. Pebbles are eroded and can become sand, which is then deposited, overlain and compacted, through time and pressure, into sandstone, which is then uplifted and eroded and weathered to make boulders. In the same way that the boulder is father to sand, sand is the grandfather to the boulder. Ah, the rock cycle, as the founder of modern geology said: 'no vestige of a beginning, - no prospect of an end.'
Problem is, this lessens it for the ones that do sing because everyone will think they are doing it because they've been told to. They shouldn't need telling, they should sign because they want to via pride.
Lol. Good question. I'd say boulders. Earth formed from cooling magma which means the crust would have been uniformly igneous rock once cooled. Early weather patterns and nascent geological processes would have produced uplifts and erosion of a sort and, therefore, boulders of igneous rock would probably been produced. Once weathering started, and water was available in liquid form, the sedimentary processes could then begin, starting with sand formation and deposition. At a guess, then, the order would be: boulders (igneous rock), sand, then boulders (sedimentary rock). It's the chicken and egg question, but with rocks.
But if, after the BB, the universe was just clouds of stuff that gradually accreted through gravity, then at some stage they might have been pebbley size before boulders were even a twinkle in their eye? And there, I've just answered Milk's original question as to how pebbles can grow into boulders. Effin' genius.
Yeah, that'd work, too, Saint. Of course, it's got less relevance to Japan's anthem, but, then again, relevance is overrated, in general, and underused, on our site!
Chicken n egg is stupid. Egg obviously came first as dinosaurs came from eggs. Chickens evolved from other species millions of years after. Anyone who thinks that is still a tricky question to answer is an idiot.... Or believes god made all animals.... Or both
At the time the pebbles are compacted they become a new rock. No one pebble that is part of the compaction can claim to have grown at the others expense. There are 3 answers. 1) The pre-chicken species eggs mean eggs came first. 2) The argument that a "chicken" is the name given to hens that are raised for the purpose of "meat production"- thus hens were laying eggs long before farmers raised "chickens". (it is true... if your birds are for egg laying they are 'hens' if they're for meat production they are called 'chickens'). 3) If we say that the question is taken out of context and that it implies "chicken/hen egg"- not dinosaur egg- the answer is still "egg". Why- because as the chicken/hen evolved- the very first bird that crossed the arbitrary species line to become a chicken instead of a proto-chicken had to be an egg before it was an chicken. The proto-chickens were on the wrong side of the species line- and thus a different species- but the egg they layed was a "chicken" egg. So- three ways of looking at the question but they all come to the same answer... the egg.
Like I said, couldn't be much worse. He'll be ok.. not really a long term answer though. Solid player though but wouldn't really fancy him up against a top quality winger.
