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/

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[Diplomat]

Your explanation sounds very plausable. Note the following from the site with the ancient musket balls, uh, I mean molten cast off material.

South African miners have found hundreds of metallic spheres, at least one of which has three parallel grooves running around its equator.

I take this to mean one or two picked up some other impurity and as it rotated through space aquired the rings before cooling.

[NoCmpromiz]

website explains it all: TimeCube.

Ah yesssss..... A very articulate explaination at that.... ;-)

Just what the heck is this idiot blithering on and on about?

[little jeremiah]

I've seen photos of these spheres. Obviously humans have been around longer than most people think. Actually there is a lot of anomalous evidence similar to this, often locked in basements, storage rooms, or even destroyed. After all, evidence that contradicts the accepted status quo is not popular among most scientists.

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[Cold Heat]

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

Sure......, I mean really!

I wonder if it was some remnants of ancient attempts to terraform. The original terraform.

[balrog666]

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[little jeremiah]

A legitimate source meaning one which refuses to accept the possiblity that the spheres are actually that old?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The designer put them there.

We know this because they are complex...

[MHGinTN]

They are limonite spheres.

[The Loan Arranger]

What? Lemon lite spheres? Who knew?

[TheLion]

Amazing. Maybe a UFO lost its marbles. Joking aside, there must be more than the spheroids around....unless things wouldn't last that long.

[Cold Heat]

Limonite....???

What is that?

Sorry, I am a electrician. (Sounds like a explosive)

Come to think of it, I have seen some strange things in the foundry business where I was working back in the 80s.

Spheroid shapes with lime cores were sometimes created in the furnaces and ejected when additives were pored in,Lime being a deslag mineral that is used in nickle steel and alloys like stainless.

[Kozak]

Geology.

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[Luis Gonzalez]

"...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."

But not in 2 to 3 billion years, a relatively short period of time in respect to the Earth.

[Cold Heat]

To add to my #92, I see by the article that a nickle steel alloy covering surrounds these things that is a quarter inch thick.

That is a bit weird. The coatings I have witnessed were paper thin and uneven.

Spheres like these are hard to reproduce naturally, they would need a bit of help from a lack of gravity perhaps.

Or some out of my mind type assumption.

Perhaps a huge explosion of molten matter from a meteorite of large size. the ejecta then would cool in a weightless environment.

[WFTR]

I like your explanation. If the balls were rotating and casting off some liquid impurity, then they might have leftovers of the impurity around the equatorial ring. The only problem is that if they were rotating with enough angular momentum to cast off some liquid, the rotational forces would likely overcome the surface energy effect and flatten the spheres more than what the pictures show. Another thought would be that the rotation and the formation of the ring happened after the initial solidification.

[null and void]

*snrk*

[AntiGuv]

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?

Well, for one thing the evidence of a long-past nuclear cataclysm would be overwhelming. That aside from the fact that not everyone would be annihilated, and the survivors would almost certainly rebuild global civilization within a few tens of thousands of years. I imagine New Zealand would inherit the earth. ;^) As a species, we're pretty much here to stay short of an event that all but renders the entire world uninhabitable for non-microbial life as we know it.

Going with a more viable extinction event, let's say that the earth were bombarded by cosmic debris from a supernova in our immediate stellar neighborhood (within 26 light years). In such a case, the ruins of our civilization would still be quite self-evident a few million years from now. Manhattan, by example, would clearly appear very much like a big huge pile of industrial wreckage. Desert cities would fare even better. I imagine Las Vegas would be the archeological prize of the thirty second thousand eight hundred twenty fourth century.

Of one thing there is very little doubt: there would be far more evidence of our passing than a few random musket balls. Now, if they were golf balls...