My boyfriend and I plan on joining the army once we are out of high school. We do not plan to get married until after college, which will be after we serve a few years. What are the rules for dating another soldier?

As long as you and him are still single and both of you are enlisted (one of you can’t be an officer while the other is enlisted) there’s no problem with it. However, if you and him don’t get married then there’s no guarantee you and him will be together since they could send you and him to entirely different parts of the world. If you and him are married you and him could be enrolled into the Married Army Couples Program and would have a much better chance of being together.

I live in Miami and I am starting to see a lot of black women and white men couples. I swear just about every day I see this and I think it’s great. My wife is black (african american) and we instantly clicked from the moment we met on the beach. We have 2 gorgeous girls now.

I’m just curious about black women’s views on interracial dating and marriage.

I think that’s great! And its beautiful when people date interracial..its makes the couple more interesting in my opinion.
I am also in a interracial relationship, but with a Mexican man.

In radiometric dating, scientists use the rate of decay of radioactive materials in rocks to estimate the absolute age of a rock. That tells them the age of fossils found in that rock.

Radiometric dating allows scientists to find fossils in only the lowest and oldest layers of sediment.

In radiometric dating, scientists place samples of a fossil in certain liquids until the samples dissolve. The rate at which they dissolve indicates the age of the fossil.

In radiometric dating, scientists mix the carbon in a fossil with carbon from similar fossils whose age they know. By comparing, the carbon they can tell the exact age of the fossil.

<<That tells them the age of fossils found in that rock.>>

Not quite. It can tell them the age of the rock, and that’s probably the age of the fossil. An exception is carbon-14 dating which, in the right circumstances, can tell you the age of the bit of animal or plant.

<<In radiometric dating, scientists place samples of a fossil in certain liquids until the samples dissolve.>>

That doesn’t apply for most methods of radiometric dating.

<<In radiometric dating, scientists mix the carbon in a fossil with carbon from similar fossils whose age they know.>>

No. They don’t do that, as that would be contamination of the sample, and it would make the result meaningless. Besides, most radiometric dating methods don’t involve carbon

How is carbon dating used to determine the age of animal and plant fossils? Why can’t it be used to determine the age of a suit of armor?

All living things contain a certain amount of radioactive, carbon 14 which has a half-life of 5730 years. This means that half of the initial quantity of carbon 14 will decompose into stable carbon 12 or carbon 13 every 5730 years.

The amount of carbon 14 present in all living things is proportional to the amount in the atmosphere so at the time of death of any living organism that portion of carbon 14 present in the organism will start to decompose.

Scientists use the amount of carbon 14 in a sample from a living organism, like a fossil, to trace back to the time of its death. Carbon 14 is produced through bodily functions like photosynthesis. That is why carbon dating can’t be performed on a suit of armor because it doesn’t contain carbon 14.