3-Billion Year Old Manufactured Spheroids? Even NASA is baffled)

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[The Loan Arranger]

At least 200 have been found, and extracted out of deep rock at the Wonderstone Silver Mine in South Africa, averaging 1-4 inches in dia. and composed of a nickel-steel alloy that doesn't occur naturally.

Some have a thin shell about a quarter inch thick, when broken open are filled with a strange spongy material that disintegrates into dust upon contact with air.

A complete mystery according to Roelf Marx curator of the South African Klerksdorp Museum, as the one he has on exibit rotates on its own, locked in a display case, free of outside vibrations.

The manufactured metallic spheroids have been mined out of a layer of pyrophyllite rock and geologically and by the various radio-isotope dating techniques are shown as being 2.8 - 3 billion years old, long before man, as shown at the bottom of the graph.

Somebody or Something obviously has been around for a long time, before primivive humans.

They also baffled NASA, according to info from the Museum.

http://community-2.webtv.net/WF11/MysterySpheres/

߃--¹¹ Psybertronist

[ModelBreaker]

500,000 years from now, even if man is wiped out in the next 20 years, the evidence of man having been here will still be unmistakable and irrefutable.

Yup. Our toilets will last almost forever.

[AntiGuv]

That's untrue. The evidence of man having been here will still be unmistakable and irrefutable in 2 to 3 billion years, it'll just be more dispersed and slightly harder to dig up.

[DixieOklahoma]

All your history are belong to us.

[Doctor Stochastic]

MSG in full operation with its first experiment Solidification Using a Baffle in a Sealed Ampoule. (SUBSA)

[djf]

LOL! ROTFLMAO!

Future treasure hunters:



"Do we have any idea what they looked like?"

"No. But we figure they were bipedal, and we have a good idea how big their asses were."

[Luis Gonzalez]

And you know this because?

[ModelBreaker]

"No. But we figure they were bipedal, and we have a good idea how big their asses were."

The possibilities are endless . . . I started going down that path and then decided on this post instead ;)

[AntiGuv]

Because our space age civilization has fashioned innumerable items that we know should retain their basic form (sufficiently enough to establish their origin) longer than 2-3 billion years. Moreover, I can deduce this from reviewing what has in fact survived from 2-3 billion years ago, and comparing the resilience of that to the resilience of items that would evidence our civilization is not a difficult exercise.

PS. Unless a meteor strikes it, the flag on the moon will be enough.

[abner]

If we had had that World War Three that everyone half expected, I wonder what traces of us would still be around after a few million years?

Motel of the Mysteries. By: David McCauley I think... Illustrated. Cool book.

[AntiGuv]

Somewhere in the depths of my magazine piles, I actually have a quasi sci-fi description of what should still be around to evidence the passing of our civilization depending on how many eons had passed. If I remember it correctly (it's been over a decade since I read it) I believe that the final item that basically goes when the sun in its death throes burns up the earth was the remnants of the Great Pyramid at Giza. Naturally that is just chosen for effect, but the basic point is that something would still be around - even then.

[vannrox]

3 Billion Years old.
Must of dated it from the Strata.
Indeed, the worlds oldest rocks are 3.8 Billion years old.
Most likely Archean.
It would be contemporanous with the oldest known fossils.


I would suggest that one of the following must be true...

1. Someone is lying. These were not found where they said they were found.
   
2. They were found as an aggregate of 3 billion year old stone and the dating is correct, but they were made by a natural process.
   
3. The dating is correct, but they were made by someone or something, and are artificial in origin.
   
4. Our methods of dating stone and rock are incorrect.
   
5. Our understanding of time and space is incorrect, and these items have materialized in this location from a different time or space.

There isn't much of any other option.

[djf]

Honestly, I wasn't thinking ceramics, I was thinking more like road structures, bridge abuttments, even if a dam was to fail (which all eventually will) the standing parts of the dam could last one heck of a long time.

Good call!

[JSteff]

ROFLMAO!

Thanks

[djf]

But there is another dynamic.

If it were obvious, we would have found them already, and their presence would probably be relatively recent(geologically) in the time record.

The older in time that they were here, the harder it is to find evidence.

So finding evidence in very old strata only means they were here... a very, very long time ago.

But why don't we find something more utilitarian? A crescent wrench designed for a guy with 6 fingers?

Something they cooked their food in? An intergalactic Slurpie cup? Or even a portable toilet?

Something?

[eddie willers]

Yeah....I laughed my fanny off when I first saw it.

Thanks for making it big.
I thought it was a badger or something, but now that I see it's a cat, the gals are all gonna go squishy and love me when I put it on the next ZOT thread. :o)

[dread78645]

You hush. This is my beer and bean money.

[xone]

' not a brickmason!'

not a bricklayer

[Nowhere Man]

Because our space age civilization has fashioned innumerable items that we know should retain their basic form (sufficiently enough to establish their origin) longer than 2-3 billion years. Moreover, I can deduce this from reviewing what has in fact survived from 2-3 billion years ago, and comparing the resilience of that to the resilience of items that would evidence our civilization is not a difficult exercise.

I've always wondered about things like that myself, like if we got nuked, how long will the buildings in the cities last (assuming they survived the nukes or were not targeted), the Interstate Highway system, and so forth. I'm currently in a "play by e-mail" Morrow Project role playing game and I remember the referee giving descriptions like "you're driving the V-150 (armored car) down the crumbling remains of I-64."

The Morrow Project is a post nuclear war/apocalyptic role playing game where the characters are frozen in order to wake up 3 to 5 years after the nuke war (or any other civilization busting catastrophe) in order to rebuild the United States. Things have gone wrong and you wake up to a changed world 150 +/- years later.