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Post by Aardvaaks on Sept 30, 2009 1:36:19 GMT 10
I wasnt sure where to post this, under science or Aliens or a theory? but then I am not sure so wanted some feedback from you guys here.
These mini cricket balls, actually named Transvaal Balls 1~2 inches in size were dug up from a deep Silver mine and were in some examples embedded in thick rock which revealed the said objects...They have interesting parallel lines 3 in total on their equators Some are hollow some have soft centres a powder that disintigrated on touch, they are rumoured to being 2.5 million years old, due to the depth they were found at.
Are they natural rock formations or of ET origin?
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Post by blacky on Sept 30, 2009 2:11:35 GMT 10
 Over the last few decades, miners in South Africa have been digging up mysterious metal spheres. Origin unknown, these spheres measure approximately an inch or so in diameter, and some are etched with three parallel grooves running around the equator. Two types of spheres have been found: one is composed of a solid bluish metal with flecks of white; the other is hollowed out and filled with a spongy white substance. The kicker is that the rock in which they where found is Precambrian - and dated to 2.8 billion years old! Who made them and for what purpose is unknown. |
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Post by Aardvaaks on Oct 2, 2009 3:33:51 GMT 10
Just found out that these objects of total over 200 had in some cases embedded in
their metal were tiny flects of white fibres, mmmmmm best theory I read was that these things were either ancient seeds starting off the process of terraforming on this planet, elsewhere that they were carried by a higher being as a sort of library of data? an ancient dvd.
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Post by blacky on Oct 2, 2009 3:45:14 GMT 10
terraforming sounds better! some had a spongy substance in them as well!  ? they couldnt tell what the substance was??? interesting topic this! |
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Post by sawltydawg on Oct 2, 2009 3:46:57 GMT 10
dudes i think that the rock strata they were found in was 2.5-2.8 billion years old
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Post by realorfake on Oct 2, 2009 4:05:15 GMT 10
What type of metal are they? Anyone know?
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Post by Aardvaaks on Oct 2, 2009 4:18:17 GMT 10
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Post by blacky on Oct 2, 2009 4:32:53 GMT 10
dudes i think that the rock strata they were found in was 2.5-2.8 billion years old your correct dawg! I put that in the post below aards!  |
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Post by brillbilly on Oct 9, 2009 8:54:05 GMT 10
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
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