[C19fan]

I'm not saying it's aliens but it's aliens.

[Mr. K]

[PAR35]

Blaming it on aliens? Are you, perchance, in on the conspiracy to cover up time travel?

[dsrtsage]

[sten]

if it's truly 250,000+ years old... that means:

1. previous civilization was wiped out (very unlikely)
2. beings visited the planet and left the piece for some reason (very likely)
3. at some point in time, we develop time travel and the piece was accidentally left in the past (maybe)

[Leep]

250,000 years in the future those fry pans that don’t require cooking oil will prove we were an advanced civilization.

[Buckeye McFrog]

On that planet some company that made flying saucers probably ran an ad showing a dropped tricorder punching a hole in their competition’s aluminum saucer.

[Yashcheritsiy]

No, it proves that they knew how to smelt aluminium prior to the Flood, and then it got buried in sediment that was compressed into “250,000 year old rock.”

[CrazyIvan]

If it were transparent I’d be really impressed.

[treetopsandroofs]

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Wedge_of_Aiud

[Fiddlstix]

[Frankss]

looks like an alternator bracket

[KarlInOhio]

Too bad the article gave zero details of where the 250,000 year age came from. It can’t be carbon dating because it wasn’t alive.

[2banana]

Why would aliens produce a poorly made hunk of aluminum?

If it was from aliens that can space travel the manufacturing would be exquisite. Perfect finish. Perfect dimensions. Etc.

[READINABLUESTATE]

It looks like part of an old tank track.

[RegulatorCountry]

It only proves that someone was capable of making aluminum well before it was known to have been made. Everything else is speculation.

[smokingfrog]

I don’t think an advanced civilization capable of interstellar travel would make a space ship out of aluminum, but maybe this was some kind of shuttlecraft.

[CivilWarBrewing]

That is a ‘speed brake’ that deployed as the being descended to Earth in their craft and broke off under extreme force.

[theoilpainter]

How do you date metal?

[I want the USA back]

250,000 years old. Carbon 14 dating no doubt. Valid only on earth. So the implication is that “aliens” came to earth and made this thing. The humans were not smart enough.

Bullshirt.

Remember Occam? Don’t needlessly multiply entities. Attributing this to aliens is as stupid as the panspermia hypothesis.

[Paradox]

Testing has since revealed that the object is made of 12 metals and is 90 per cent aluminium with Romanian officials dating it as being 250,000 years old.The initial results were later confirmed by a lab in Lausanne, Switzerland, CEN reports.

So I bet the Swiss lab confirmed the COMPOSITION but not the age. I bet this thing isn't more than 100 years old.