3-Billion Year Old Manufactured Spheroids? (strange)

[Dover]

3-Billion Year Old Manufactured Spheroids?????????

http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!96!10!0C394463B0D1/WF11/3BillionYearOld/scrapbookFiles/importD10.jpg

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...cont'd


http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!96!10!0C394463B0D1/WF11/3BillionYearOld/

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Another site:

excerpt -

...Grooved Sphere from South Africa (Precambrian)

Over the past several decades, South African miners have found hundreds of metallic spheres, at least one of which has three parallel grooves running around its equator. The spheres are of two types--"one of solid bluish metal with white flecks, and another which is a hollow ball filled with a white spongy center" (Jimison 1982). Roelf Marx, curator of the museum of Klerksdorp, South Africa, where some of the spheres are housed, said: "The spheres are a complete mystery. They look man-made, yet at the time in Earth's history when they came to rest in this rock no intelligent life existed. They're nothing like I have ever seen before" (Jimison 1982).

We wrote to Roelf Marx for further information about the spheres. He replied in a letter dated September 12, 1984: "There is nothing scientific published about the globes, but the facts are: They are found in pyrophyllite, which is mined near the little town of Ottosdal in the Western Transvaal. This pyrophyllite (Al2Si4O10(OH)2) is a quite soft secondary mineral with a count of only 3 on the Mohs' scale and was formed by sedimentation about 2.8 billion years ago. On the other hand the globes, which have a fibrous structure on the inside with a shell around it, are very hard and cannot be scratched, even by steel." The Mohs' scale of hardness is named after Friedrich Mohs, who chose ten minerals as references points for comparative hardness, with talc the softest (1) and diamond the hardest (10).

In his letter to us, Marx said that A. Bisschoff, a professor of geology at the University of Potchefstroom, told him that the spheres were "limonite concretions." Limonite is a kind of iron ore. A concretion is a compact, rounded rock mass formed by localized cementation around a nucleus.

One problem with the hypothesis that the objects are limonite concretions concerns their hardness. As noted above, the metallic spheres cannot be scratched with a steel point, indicating they are extremely hard. But standard references on minerals state that limonite registers only 4 to 5.5 on the Mohs' scale, indicating a relatively low degree of hardness (Kourmisky 1977). Furthermore, limonite concretions usually occur in groups, like masses of soap bubbles stuck together. They do not, it seems, normally appear isolated and perfectly round, as is the case with the objects in question. Neither do they normally appear with parallel grooves encircling them...cont'd

http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~ghi/spheres.html

[Kelvin Mace]

1. I'm afraid I need a more credible link

The allegations on this site, if true, would be front page news the world over.

I am skeptical, especially when checking the links I find this listed as a "source":

Jimison, S. (1982) "Scientists baffled by space spheres." Weekly World News, July 27.

David Allen
www.thoughtcrimes.org

[Maple]

4. Even if absolute truth

it wouldn't be 'front page news' anywhere.

Lots of strange and interesting things have been found around the world...absolutely legit...and been totally ignored.

Michael Jackson is soooo much more 'interesting'

We are a very insular race of beings.

[Squeegee]

7. Ponder these other 'truths' from the Weekly World News

Forget the Face on Mars, what about that Butt on Mars?!

Al-Qaeda has the The Gay Bomb!

15 die of boredom watching J. Lo's DVD!

Scientists create diamonds from Dog Poop!

[librechik]

2. yeah, they remind me of this:

Iapetus, one of the satellites of Saturn, which has strange "artificial" characteristics, according to some.

http://www.enterprisemission.com/

we only recently got a really good look at Iapetus (Dec 04) and if you are interested in anomalies, you will love this story--

As I was reading I remembered the spheroids and looked em up==sure enough, they appear to be representations of Iapetus!

[Cicero]

8. Looks like the Death Star got a second, bigger gun (nt)

[NEOBuckeye]

3. So THAT's how life got here

I always wondered about that.

Actually, there is a storyline in Star Trek that involves an ancient race of beings known as the "seeders" who supposedly travelled across the galaxy seeding thousands of young, newly-formed planets with their DNA. Humans (as well as the other ST races: Klingons, Romulans, etc.) are apparently the product of visitors from this ancient civilization.

And now it seems, that story may not be far from the truth.

[Squeegee]

5. The original report

"Over the past several decades, South African miners have found hundreds of metallic spheres, at least one of which has three parallel grooves running around its equator. The spheres are of two types--"one of solid bluish metal with white flecks, and another which is a hollow ball filled with a white spongy center" -- Jimison, S. (1982) Scientists baffled by space spheres. Weekly World News, July 27.

[Dover]

6. FYI - I added another source in my original post. n/t

[Igel]

9. Horta eggs?

http://www.sixtiescity.com/startrek/26devil.htm

:shrug:

[FM Arouet666]

10. Ridiculous nonsense, but mildly entertaining.

Weekly World News !?!?!?!?!?!? Hello, this is the same rag magazine that brought you Bat Boy. I buy the thing from time to time, for a laugh. There is nothing credible within it's pages.

This story has so many holes it is not worth dissecting.

Consider some recent topics.......

"BUSH ORDERS CAPE & CROWN
SHOCKING REAL REASON HILLARY COLLAPSED . . . TIGHT THONG CUT OFF BLOOD SUPPLY!
BUSH CHANGING HIS NAME TO 'GOD'
THE EIFFEL TOWER IS A PORTAL TO HELL
WORLD-SHAKING DISCOVERY... UFO FOUND ON BEACH AFTER KILLER TSUNAMI
HARVARD PROF. CONFIRMS ABDUCTIONS ARE REAL!
ALIENS CLAIM JACKO IS THEIR SON
ADOLF HITLER WAS A WOMAN!
OSAMA RECRUITS CLONED HITLER" (I wonder if Hitler was able to fool Osama about his, I mean, her, well never mind.)

All can be seen here... http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/ It would seem that we have more to worry about than some silly little spheres that pre-date mankind. The Bush stuff is probably true, but the rest....Please....
:evilgrin:

[lazarus]

11. We already did this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=228&topic_id=1803

No evidence was forthcoming. The spheres are kept from scientists, locked away.

I don't believe they are what is claimed.