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[Jim W N]

I’d be willing to bet it’s a fake. Deliberate or nor and screwing up big time on the dating process.

[ElkGroveDan]

This is just random internet garbage. Why even post it?

[Kriggerel]

Reading that article made me feel the same way I did a number of years back, when I met this fellow at a grocery store in Mt. Ida, Arkansas, who had a drawl so thick you could spread it on toast, and who was swearing, up and down, that he was a breeder of “talking dogs”.

“Sure, OK. Whatever you say. Good day to you too, sir.”

[DannyTN]

I love sending artifacts back in time with my time machine. Totally messes with scientists.

[RArtfulogerDodger]

Fake.

Somebody fitted the hammer in the rock, and not very well.

For some reason, People a DYING to believe crap like this.

[tinyowl]

Well back then you walked to school in the rain, you didn't talk back to your Mom, there weren't no telephones.

You meant what you said, you did what you said, and if you sold a man a hammer, you didn't need no warranty that weren't worth the paper 'twas written on to go with that hammer.

You shook a man's hand. And you expected not to need to be back for a new hammer for 'bout 4 million years.

'ts the was it was back then.

[eclectic]

Annunaks are real.

[GingisK]

Could be that the rock is a great deal more recent than they suppose. Maybe rocks can form more quickly that they assume.

Then again, there are reports of all sorts of exotic artifacts discovered in coal.

What if civilizations have risen and fallen several times over millenniums?

[MisterMagic]

Come on, guys. This one is obvious. Doc Brown and Marty McFly went back in time several hundred million years and then lost their hammer in what is now Texas.

[Sacajaweau]

Can you say “Grant Money”.

[BillyBonebrake]

The Metallurgical Institute of Columbia might just be a crackpot sitting in a second floor walkup above a low rent storefront in Bogota.

[Sacajaweau]

Doesn’t iron rust? Where is it?

[NorseViking]

LOL. The picture is so fake:)

[Ken H]

Dated 400 million MC.

[ArtDodger]

If Texans are ready to believe they have a 400 million year old hammer, then they are now ready to hear what the libs have to promise them.

[Meatspace]

Where is the Metallurgical Institute of Columbia?

[norwaypinesavage]

"head of the hammer consists of 97 pure iron, 2 percent chlorine, and 1 percent sulfur."

Something's wrong with this "analysis". "Pure iron" is very low strength, and chlorine and Sulphur are impurities that would weaken it even more. High strength steels generally contain around a half percent carbon, or more, and virtually no Sulphur or chlorine. At the content listed, the striking head of the hammer would be pounded out like a mushroom.

[Magnum44]

Hammer time?

[CrazyIvan]

If it’s a Craftsman it’s still under warranty.