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.
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Note: this topic is from 3/04/2005. Oh So Mysteriouso topic. Thanks The Loan Arranger, although the acc't was nuked.
How about the same principle as a shot tower?
My Grandfather had a perfectly round rock. Created by a volcano. Thunder Ball or something.
“As a floating puddle of molten iron-nickel in space, they might tend to form little balls.”
Isnn’t that pretty much the way lead shot for shotgun shells is made?
” a huge explosion of molten matter from a meteorite of large size. the ejecta then would cool in a weightless environment. “
Why “weightless”? Lead shot is made by dropping in a tower that is in a gravity environment, It’s the gravity that makes them spherical, isn’t it?
From Wiki;
“Molten lead would be dropped from the top of the tower. Like most liquids, surface tension makes drops of molten lead become near-spherical as they fall. When the tower is high enough, the lead droplets will solidify while still dropping and thus will retain their spherical form. “
So maybe molten metal falling from space into the gravity field of Earth created the spheres?
I must say that I would have hated being outside while it was raining metal spheres.
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The answer is not archeology but rather mineralogy. The spheres are bubbles that floated up through the prophylite
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So you say.
My point, IIRC, is that they are either natural or they are manufactured. If they are manufactured, then obviously, it’s not by humans.
But all the talk about ancient ruins leaves me with one question. People continually say “There will be nothing left in 10,000 (or however many) years from now...”
I call BS on that one. There is one thing that simply would not decay or erode.
And it is one of the first technologies that humans (presumably others also) would have.
Ceramics.
Coffee cups.
Toilet seats.
Computer chips.
Stuff like that.
If man was destroyed, there would be plenty of evidence left for millions upon millions of years.
They might not have any of our writing left.
But they would know how big our asses are!
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I doubt you are going to find any remnants of 2 or 3 billion year old infrastructure. Even rocks that age are not real common.
Depends on the critters evaluating the evidence.
years ago while excavating on a construction project, some white spherical objects were uncovered several feet down. They were of a ceramic, nature fine, smooth grained and tennis ball sized. There was intense speculation in our news paper on the origin including just which group of native Americans could have created them.
They were sent to university anthropologists and they allowed their differing opinions that pretty much agreed they didn’t know who made them or what they were...... maybe ceremonial.
In the end, an old geezer came and looked at them and declared they were used in an industrial ball mill to produce fine powder from chemical precipitates. Somehow, they had been dumped on the site many years ago
Yup.
Ceramics.
Mostly molten metallic oxides and silicates.
Virtually indestructible and unreactive.
If you had a house in the desert and it burned down, not much would remain.
But your toilet would end up buried in the sand and still be usable a million years from now!
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