Paper tapes+rubber bands+30 yrs = mess

[Fred Cisin]

>>>>> And to make coal...
>>>> You find a old swamp, and cover it for few million years ...
>>> I don't believe it takes quite that long.
>> It takes even longer.
> It has taken even longer, which is not quite the same thing. Do we
> have any reason to think we know how long it actually takes? That is,
> the time actually required, as opposed to the time taken in the cases
> we've looked at?

. . . and there are some folk who claim that you can make all that you
want in 6000 years, if you include a big flood, . . .