Posted on 02/26/2025 3:41:21 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Interesting find-
ill see if i can find it but there is an obelisk made of a type of iron that somehow doesn’t rust and has been standing in the elelemts for a very long time- (not sure if it was you that posted about it? Mighta been?)
He’s my favorite honky.
Is using metal from meteors unusual in the past?
They found a meteorite site and made jewellery out of it. Real revelation.
How’d you get so funky
Unless you count Sudbury it's still uncommon now!
Yup, there’s at least one topic about it linked up in msg 3.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4300747/posts?page=3#3
Delhi. I’m pretty sure there was a topic about it, but I’m getting sleepy, sooooo...
https://search.brave.com/search?q=iron+pillar+in+india&summary=1
:^)
Mostly because carbonaceous chondrites are much more common. :^)
I’ve seen speculation that the Kaaba’s black stone was a meteorite, but more likely it’s some kind of black volcanic stone or glass.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Black-Stone-of-Mecca
its funny, I was replying to number 1 and aborted the post because I didnt think anyone would catch my drift!!... I was going to say is anyone who was familiar with what they actually used, melted down for whatever purpose, could have very easily been walking along, minding their own business, kicked a rock and hurt their toe realizing that rock was heavier, denser than most, and knew it was metalic...
Finding them was kind of a trick through. Not many of those that hit the earth are metal and stay together enough to be of use. The famous crater in Arizona is probably what happened when they were too large, it just vaporized rather then being a large lump of metal.
So it would need to be made of the right stuff, be the right size and come down where people could see it land, understand what it was and go find it.
It happened, obviously. But rarely.
Enquiring Mnds Wanna Know..!! d;^)
yes it is. I remember there was an islamic geologist who went to the Kaaba and circled it when the doors were being refurbished. He got a good look at the stone and said it’s definitely an iron meteorite from the asteroid belt.
Just stop.
Calibur was, but it broke and became ex-Calibur. /rimshot
“It’s many a hard kilo to the Black Hole” ... “No lie, bwana.”
Is such a thing really possible?
/you know the rest
:D
There used to be a buddha-like statue atop the cube, but the muzzies got rid of it long ago. There was also a sort of procession of statues leading up to the site; the last of the statue bases/pedestals were removed during the 20th century.
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