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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My well water destroys ceramic.
Is it overly acidic?
Or does it just coat it with lime?
I have never heard of natural water destroying ceramics.
Well, that is the first time I have ever received a reply 11 years after I made a comment! LOL....
As to your gravity assertion, you are correct that sphere shapes can be created in a environment with gravity, but it generally requires a rotational or spinning component for molten metals..or some other component to create surface tension so that the shape is formed before hardening. (has to occur pretty fast)
Taking a second look at this, it could have been under gravity or not. It could have been spinning or not and it could have been created by surface tension of the primary or second element or not.
But then I only stayed in a Holiday Inn Express one time and did not feel any smarter. In fact I have forgotten so much in my 65th year that I don’t recall if I actually stayed the night,,
So......what were we talking about..?
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