[HN Gopher] The Driest Place on Earth
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       The Driest Place on Earth
        
       Author : 1970-01-01
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2024-03-19 14:56 UTC (4 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (astrobiology.nasa.gov)
 (TXT) w3m dump (astrobiology.nasa.gov)
        
       | huytersd wrote:
       | Did earth have no deserts before 10-15 million years ago?
        
         | tomsmeding wrote:
         | Presumably "the oldest desert on Earth" means the oldest one
         | that still exists. Otherwise it wouldn't be on Earth, after
         | all; it would have been gone already.
        
         | andsoitis wrote:
         | According the University of California Museum of Paleontology,
         | desert have existed since at least the Permian period (299-251
         | million years ago) when the world's continents had combined
         | into Pangaea.
         | 
         | https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/permian/permian.php
        
       | moondev wrote:
       | Mecca for 3D Printing
        
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