3-Billion Year Old Manufactured Spheroids? Even NASA is baffled)

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[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!

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