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3-Billion Year Old Manufactured Spheroids? Even NASA is baffled)
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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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To: Sloth
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21 posted on 03/04/2005 7:01:12 PM PST by cripplecreek (The crippled stool is the cadillac of poopin stools.)
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To: dcuddeback

Hey! I dated some older women in my younger, more dissolute days- but none of them were artifacts!


22 posted on 03/04/2005 7:02:54 PM PST by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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To: The Loan Arranger
***filled with a strange spongy material that disintegrates into dust upon contact with air.***

...and how would they know this???

(Unless they opened them in a vacuum, I guess.)
23 posted on 03/04/2005 7:03:07 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: The Loan Arranger

Oh boy.... THEY were right... OMG!!! Art Bell was right!!! what are we supposed to do now when the insane are right??


24 posted on 03/04/2005 7:03:31 PM PST by GeronL (Condi will not be mistaken for a cleaning lady)
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To: cripplecreek

25 posted on 03/04/2005 7:03:57 PM PST by Sloth (I don't post a lot of the threads you read; I make a lot of the threads you read better.)
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To: The Loan Arranger

Oh boy.... THEY were right... OMG!!! Art Bell was right!!! what are we supposed to do now when the insane are right??


26 posted on 03/04/2005 7:05:43 PM PST by GeronL (Condi will not be mistaken for a cleaning lady)
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To: Sooth2222

What's wrong with that? I always call the Space Alien Hotline before I go to vote to ask which candidate he backs! Don't you all?


27 posted on 03/04/2005 7:06:35 PM PST by GatorGirl
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To: The Loan Arranger
Strange. If this is true, humans, or someone intelligent, have been around a lot longer than we've been led to believe.

Have always thought that 'science fiction'. . .was fifty percent imagination. . .fifty percent; memory. . .

28 posted on 03/04/2005 7:07:51 PM PST by cricket
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To: PetroniusMaximus
***filled with a strange spongy material that disintegrates into dust upon contact with air.***

I guess Twinkies don't last forever after all ...

29 posted on 03/04/2005 7:09:26 PM PST by Honcho Bongs
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To: PatrickHenry

A bit off-the-wall, but you may find this of interest for the list.


30 posted on 03/04/2005 7:09:39 PM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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To: The Loan Arranger

When I was a kid I went with my grandfather to a place on the lake Huron shoreline in Canada. There were perfectly spherical rocks that were natural formations there.


31 posted on 03/04/2005 7:09:44 PM PST by cripplecreek (The crippled stool is the cadillac of poopin stools.)
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To: The Loan Arranger

"The Trouble with Tribbles"


32 posted on 03/04/2005 7:09:52 PM PST by conservativeharleyguy (Democrats: Over 60 million fooled daily!)
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To: The Loan Arranger
Found in a mine? Better if they're found in a cave. "Bat Boy Found in Cave," etc.


33 posted on 03/04/2005 7:10:27 PM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: The Loan Arranger
as the one he has on exibit rotates on its own


34 posted on 03/04/2005 7:15:30 PM PST by Mannaggia l'America
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To: The Loan Arranger

Prehistoric Democrat Brains perhaps???


35 posted on 03/04/2005 7:16:15 PM PST by SvdByFaith
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To: The Loan Arranger
First, I think this one is a hoax. If they were serious about giving us information, they would put the dust from the center of one of these things in a scanning electron microscope with x-ray spectroscopy and tell us what elements the dust contained. They would also give us the exact composition and crystal structure of the "nickel-steel alloy." Furthermore, I don't believe that these crude pieces are as balanced as one of the referenced sites claims.

However, as a hoax, someone has put some thought into this one or got lucky. Most meteorites are made of iron and nickel. One of the referenced sites suggested that these things were formed under zero-gravity conditions. If little bits of iron-nickel molten metal were thrown off by some astronomical event and they contained a fair amount of absorbed gas, I could see them maybe ending up in the form mentioned. As a floating puddle of molten iron-nickel in space, they might tend to form little balls. A sphere has the lowest surface area to volume ration, so forming a sphere is a way for the molten metal to minimize surface energy. If the outside quenched and solidified while a large amount of gas was still in the metal, the inside might form pockets of gas and be spongy. With time and enough heat, hydrogen gas might break down into hydrogen atoms, diffuse through the metal, reform on the outside surface, and leave as a gas. In refineries, high temperature hydrogen diffuses into carbon steel under certain conditions, so the process could be the same. Eventually, they fell to earth as part of a meteorite.

I don't have an explanation for the ring around the equator of these things except that I still think they are a hoax.

Bill

36 posted on 03/04/2005 7:16:33 PM PST by WFTR (Liberty isn't for cowards)
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To: The Loan Arranger

If not a crock of horsehockey...

Very Interesting!

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?


37 posted on 03/04/2005 7:17:31 PM PST by sonofatpatcher2 (Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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To: cricket

Me, too. Good point.


38 posted on 03/04/2005 7:18:14 PM PST by JennysCool (I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. -Johnny Carson)
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To: cripplecreek

Perfect spheroids are favored by any natural process that involves a great deal of surface energy. A sphere has the lowest ratio of surface area to volume, so the best way to minimize surface energy is form a sphere.


39 posted on 03/04/2005 7:19:53 PM PST by WFTR (Liberty isn't for cowards)
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To: AntiGuv; longshadow; VadeRetro; balrog666; general_re; RadioAstronomer; js1138; whattajoke; ...
A bit off-the-wall ...

You think so? You know me, I'll believe anything. What are you afraid of? Think out of the box!

Mystery Balls Ping List!

40 posted on 03/04/2005 7:20:00 PM PST by PatrickHenry (<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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