Posted on 03/04/2005 6:47:53 PM PST by 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/
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Osama backed Kerry, Space aliens backed Bush, the rest is history.
"The pain...the pain, the children of the ages."
What Dubya probably doesn't realize is that this alien IS real. I met him at a MUFON seminar at a place I cannot disclose. Hbe is 'His Omnipotent Highness KRILLL'. (3 L's)
Research books by William Cooper and decide for yourself.
Here's a great link to start with:
It will probably still be there then but Luna may well have left the solar system.
It's getting farther and farther away, isn't it?
I say give the guy a medal! Purple Heart! Congressional medal of Honor! He saved us from invaders!
They all died from the clap!!
Some sorta modern take off on an old H.G. Wells story..
"They also baffled NASA"
yes, baffled an agency that is also baffled by metric to english units conversion........it must be a mystery indeed
Here is a website that pretty much debunks this 20 year old myth...
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mom/spheres.html
Has anyone written a story, a regular one, of the Morrow Project?
At its current rate of retreat, the moon will be only another 60,115 miles further from the earth in 2,539,265,412 years. I could be wrong, but I doubt that this will be enough to let it break out of the earth's gravitation. Even if it were, it would certainly not leave the solar system altogether barring a major disruption by an extra-solar body (e.g., another star passing through).
Who said?
One would wonder what the heck was the spongy material inside the spheres that turned to dust and blew away. Human seeds? Bubonic plague spores?
Opps! Make that about 2,537,526,189 years in the future - I forgot to account for leap days. They add up...
I dunno, somehow I thought the figure was it could be gone in the next 20-50 million years, if not sooner.
BTTT
Well, I'm not altogether certain myself. As I recall it, the moon retreats 1.5 inches away from the earth each year because of energy transferred from the earth's rotation. Beyond that, I don't know if the rate is varying or at which point it would break free from orbiting the earth. Perhaps someone who knows more could answer better.
PS. I just realized the leap dates wouldn't matter, since I gave a standard year date to begin with, which already accounts for them. So, scratch my last post!
If they were formed in the manner you describe, they'd likely have some net residual spin to their momentum, and that would cause lighter impurities to migrate to the "equator" (relative to the "poles" of the axis of rotation) via centrifugal forces.
Very cute.
What it seems to be is that the Earth is slowing down it's rotational speed, due to tidal drag, etc. But that energy goes somewhere, so the moons orbital velocity is slowly speeding up, an as it does, it goes into higher orbit.
Something like that. I could dig out Flamarrions.
But I ain't all that excited.
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