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OT South African Mystery Spheres
"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
... Miniaturized Death Stars or Ben-Wa balls from beyond the stars? You decide...I just hope they don't start hatching: http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!96!10!0C394463B0D1/WF11/3BillionYearOld/ :-) Pat A month early for April Fools, Pat. -- Alan Erskine We can get people to the Moon in five years, not the fifteen GWB proposes. Give NASA a real challenge |
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Alan Erskine wrote: A month early for April Fools, Pat. Check that link on the page; about the time the Witch Doctors start stealing them, you know you are onto a classic in the loopy division. The question is, what are they? They're all perfectly spherical- except for the ones that aren't. They all have those grooves around the middle- except the ones that don't. They're all full of spongy stuff- except the ones that are full of a coalish substance. They all rotate on their own accord- except for the ones that don't. It's a world class mystery, if you ask me. For all we know, these could be the fossilized testicles of androids from the future who fell into that time vortex over Antarctica that the Russians found...yeah...that's the ticket. ;-) Pat |
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Pat Flannery wrote:
[snip] It's a world class mystery, if you ask me. For all we know, these could be the fossilized testicles of androids from the future who fell into that time vortex over Antarctica that the Russians found...yeah...that's the ticket. ;-) What I'm wondering is how they dated them. Radiocarbon dating is out for something that old, and that leaves a variety of much more difficult and expensive techniques. Consider that the very act of getting something like this accurately dated would likely require the involvement of a leading scientist in this field. It seems odd then that that hypothetical scientist wouldn't be researching these oddities and wouldn't have a paper filtering through peer review right this very moment. |
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Doug... wrote: Ooooo-kay... Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the oldest rocks found on Earth were granites from the Canadian Shield, that weighed in at around 2.5 byo. I recall reading that a rock dated to 3 billion years was recently dubbed the oldest terrestrial rock found. So it sounds a little odd to me that a layer of pyrophyllite in South Africa would date out at 2.8 - 3 byo. READ YOUR HOLY BIBLE BOOK! God has put these balls into the Earth to prove the Humanist/Evolutionist/Atheist/Communist/Feminist/Gay Sponge Bob Fans wrong, Wrong, WRONG! We must all put our trust in God's Holy Balls! This really smells like a hoax to me, guys. Have you been smelling God's Holy Balls?! :-) Pat |
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Christopher M. Jones wrote: What I'm wondering is how they dated them. Radiocarbon dating is out for something that old, and that leaves a variety of much more difficult and expensive techniques. Could be trace fossils in the matrix they were found in; that's the normal technique for dating really ancient stuff. they were found in a mine, so the mining company would have done studies on the age of strata they were mining... so do I believe these are two billion year old things made by some exotic technology? Yeah...right... and there really is a Plesiosaur in Loch Ness. Consider that the very act of getting something like this accurately dated would likely require the involvement of a leading scientist in this field. Trace fossil dating relies at looking at microfossils- you make a complete list of all the species you find (diatoms and the like are very good in this regard as there are huge numbers of species and they evolved at a fairly fast rate into different looking forms), figure out at what time all these species were co-existing, and you can nail the date down pretty accurately. Of course the age they are claiming for these things is when only the most primitive forms of life were around, and fossils are almost unknown from this era. Pat |
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Pat Flannery wrote: Trace fossil dating relies at looking at microfossils- you make a complete list of all the species you find (diatoms and the like are very good in this regard as there are huge numbers of species and they evolved at a fairly fast rate into different looking forms), figure out at what time all these species were co-existing, and you can nail the date down pretty accurately. Of course the age they are claiming for these things is when only the most primitive forms of life were around, and fossils are almost unknown from this era. I just took a bath, and Archimedes-like, had an inspiration: If you were to entirely cover Pia Zadora in chocolate mousse, except for her knees... But about those mystery spheres...so how does a steel alloy sphere end up in two billion year old strata in a mine? Simple...it's really closer to two hundred than two billion years old, and it gets taken into the mine several decades back by a miner, who loses it, and it gets down into the muck of the mine floor corrodes some and gets re-found years and years later. So the question is, what is it? A cheaply made ball bearing for mining equipment of some sort? Something that gets covered in leather or cloth and used in clothing as a button of some sort? Or my guess, some sort of trade object given to natives for use as an ornament or bell on a necklace or bracelet- that would explain the crease around the center (where the two hemispherical halves were joined). Pat |
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Doug... wrote: Ooooo-kay... Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the oldest rocks found on Earth were granites from the Canadian Shield, that weighed in at around 2.5 byo... No, Earth rocks go back to about 3.8, possibly a bit more if recent finds have pushed things back further (I haven't kept current on this). Hmm, "The Planetary Scientist's Companion" (a very useful reference), which is copyright 1998, says that 4.1 is now the age record. it sounds a little odd to me that a layer of pyrophyllite in South Africa would date out at 2.8 - 3 byo. That's not even exceptionally old by Earth standards. And some of the oldest known Earth rocks *do* come from southern Africa, if memory serves, although I couldn't tell you type or location. -- "Think outside the box -- the box isn't our friend." | Henry Spencer -- George Herbert | |
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Pat Flannery wrote:
Miniaturized Death Stars or Ben-Wa balls from beyond the stars? Or artifacts from the Planet of the Apes? http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mom/spheres.html -- Dave Michelson |
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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:06:03 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote: I just took a bath, and Archimedes-like, had an inspiration: If you were to entirely cover Pia Zadora in chocolate mousse, except for her knees... ....Pia Zadora is to the pre-Gen X'ers what Charro was to my generation. Just exactly *what* that is, alas, is still being debated. And upchucked. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society - General George S. Patton, Jr |
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