The Dashka Stone (Another Out-of-Place Artifact)

The Epoch Times ^ | February 18, 2009 | Leonardo Vintiñi

[sig226]

I think that the Urals would be totally unrecognizable 120,000,000 years ago. The Himalayas didn’t begin to rise for another 50,000,000 years and what did exist would not coincide with what we see now.

[Antonello]

I don't think the image linked correctly.

Here is the url to the photo: http://mmmgroup.altervista.org/creator.jpg

In case that doesn't work either, here is the web page containing the photo: http://mmmgroup.altervista.org/e-gall2.html. The picture is about halfway down the page.

[count-your-change]

Only one possible explanation: Space aliens with very strong arms for carrying those maps.
Better hide those maps, they’ll be claiming reparations.

[ApplegateRanch]

I was doing fine, until I came to, "According to the Russian newspaper Pravda, ..."

Mohs 6 can be fairly easily engraved/carved with quartz (or flint, & other SiO^2 minerals) that are Mohs 7; or some harder, conceivably, beryl (sapphire or low grade emerald, or just plain black corundum) could have been used, as well.

beryl is also common in the Urals .

The base rock being 100+ million years old doesn't make the "carvings" equally old.

I'm not sure what they mean by "a thin coating of porcelain calcium", but it may refer to a thin coating of calcite flowstone, or similar.

Mohs is RELATIVE harness.

This is a comparison of Mohs to absolute hardness.

Mohs 1 vs absolute # 1 Talc
2 # 3 Gypsum
3 # 9 Calcite
4 # 21 Fluorite
5 # 48 Apatite
6 # 72 Orthoclase (& 77 (Wiki) Diopside)
7 # 100 Quartz
8 # 200 Topaz
9 # 400 Corundum (Beryl: aquamarine, emerald, corundum)
10 # 1600 Diamond

(Wiki) Diopside is also found in a variety of metamorphic rocks, such as in contact metamorphosed skarns developed from high silica dolomites.

Interestingly, Diopside is high in calcium; a common rock forming mineral; occurs in much of the Urals, as does dolomite; and is used in porcelain manufacture.

A slab of dolomitic limestone, that has either form on, or been overlain by, a diopside layer, then a thin coating of "porcelain calcium", with a bunch of...fracture line? Stress marks? Weird crystallization patterns? ...on the surface of the diopside being 'interpreted' as a "map"?

IF these are real (i.e. NOT von Dänikens) then I'll assume a REAL research report will be forthcoming.

The photos posted in 8, 9, and 20 lead me to suspect I'm lacking in imagination, when it comes to seeing "maps" on that stone. This smells like the "pyramid" in Bosnia.

Now, if they find Piri Reis's signature on it....

[shibumi]

Just thought you folks would find this thread ... uhm .....amusing.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[TigersEye]

Thanks for posting the pic and the links. My browser did show your pic once last night and now it doesn't. Firefox does that sometimes. I don't see any map on that stone or any resemblance to the aerial photo either.

Maybe if we fried a tortilla or a pancake on that rock the image would come through. ;^)

[stockpirate]

ping

[Quix]

Thx.

will check it out.

[Quix]

Interesting.

Curious.

I suspect that eternity will reveal many surprising things about eternity past.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Lees Swrd]

Agree. Looks like a big rock with cracks in it to me.