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/

߃--¹¹ Psybertronist

[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.

[MarkL]

NO!!! Don't do it!!! They're the baby Hortas!!!!!

Mark

Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a brickmason!

[Strategerist]

Considering there's almost no documentation of any of the claims on the website, it's probably a load of BS from a kook.

[Semper911]

Birdshot for Pterodactyl?

[Blood of Tyrants]

In the beginning......

[Andy from Beaverton]

Visitors

[Apollo]

it's probably a load of BS from a kook.

probably?

[Crazieman]

BS until a legitimate source says something.

[nevergore]

Bt..But....evolution is science.....

Noooooooo!

NeverGore :^)

[Herk]

How do we know that NASA is "baffled"? The website contains no references...this has hoax written all over it.

[c-five]

What is the evidence that they were manufactured?

[SirChas]

Perhaps the accepted methods of dating artifacts are inaccurate?

This is the accepted artifact to compare against.

[Lancey Howard]

Yeah. Those Dan Rather documents are real until a "legitimate source" says otherwise, too.

[Sloth]

[JasonC]

Strange. If anyone thinks this is true, buy tinfoil futures.

[Sooth2222]

Prehistoric pterodactyl poachers, no doubt!

"I saw it on the internet, so it MUST be true!"

[antienvironmentalist]

My eyes! My eyes!

[djf]

I've read alot about unusual and unexplainable archeology.

While I don't deny it exists, there are other problems.

Where are the mines? Where are the roads?
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.

So while things like this are anomalies, and certainly raise way more questions than they answer, show me some infrastructure!!

[hineybona]

He's the guy they said found these things http://www.puk.ac.za/nuus/eng/news21.html

[cripplecreek]

[George Smiley]

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

[PetroniusMaximus]

***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.)

[GeronL]

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

[Sloth]

[GeronL]

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

[GatorGirl]

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?

[cricket]

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. . .

[Honcho Bongs]

***filled with a strange spongy material that disintegrates into dust upon contact with air.***

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

[AntiGuv]

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

[cripplecreek]

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.

[conservativeharleyguy]

"The Trouble with Tribbles"

[VadeRetro]

Found in a mine? Better if they're found in a cave. "Bat Boy Found in Cave," etc.

[Mannaggia l'America]

as the one he has on exibit rotates on its own

[SvdByFaith]

Prehistoric Democrat Brains perhaps???

[WFTR]

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

[sonofatpatcher2]

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?

[JennysCool]

Me, too. Good point.

[WFTR]

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.

[PatrickHenry]

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!

[eddie willers]

[MediaMole]

You're listening to something from a WebTV website?

[ken21]

how'dja guess?

(/s)

time to call fart bell in and his ilk.

[GeronL]

love the tiny gif

[paulmartin]

this likely a hoax, but even if if these spheres exists, maybe the inaccuracy's with the dating method, and perhaps the prevailing thought that early man was primitive.

[Walkingfeather]

ping for later

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Do not make fun of Happy Fun Ball.

[Kozak]

Perhaps the accepted methods of dating artifacts are inaccurate?.

Uh, artifacts buried in rock layers tend to be the age of the rock layer.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

"Birdshot for Pterodactyl?"


Brimstone for Sodom?

[GeronL]

It was too small!!