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Title: 3-Billion Year Old Manufactured Spheroids?
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URL Source: http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!96 ... 4463B0D1/WF11/3BillionYearOld/
Published: May 25, 2005
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Post Date: 2005-05-25 16:51:39 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
Keywords: Manufactured, Spheroids?, 3-Billion
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3-Billion Year Old Manufactured Spheroids? 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. 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. They also baffled NASA, according to info from the Museum. http://community-2.webtv.net/WF11/MysterySpheres/ The riddle of the rotating spheres ? Stones baffle NASA scientists Man and rock. Stones, which are billions of years old and rotate on their axes, captured the attention of Mr. John Hund of Pietersburg fifteen years ago. Review previously published reports about Hund's journey to the Gestoptesfontein mine near Ottosdal in the Northern Province where he found a stone just like the one he read about and saw in the Klerksdorp museum. While playing with the stone on a very flat surface at a restaurant one day, Hund realized it was very well balanced. He took it to the California Space Institute at the University of California to have tests done to determine just how well balanced it was. "It turned out that the balance is so fine, it exceeded the limit of their measuring technology and these are the guys who make gyrocompasses for NASA. The stone is balanced to within one-hundred thousandths of an inch from absolute perfection," explains Hund. Nobody knows what these stones are. One NASA scientist told Hund that they do not have the technology to create anything as finely balanced as this. He said the only way that either nature or human technology could create something so finely balanced would be in zero gravity. Here is an extract of Mr. Hund's letter: I was intrigued by the form of the spheres, grooves around the middle and the fact that they are as hard as steel, while the material (pyrophyllite) in which they are found, is as soft as limestone with a count of only 3 on the Moh scale. As you probably know, pyrophyllite (Al2 Si4 O10 (OH)2) is a secondary mineral and the deposits were formed by a process of sedimentation. On Gestoptefontein volcanic activity was responsible for the forming of outcrops varying in height from about 10 to 100 meters. The smooth and relatively soft surface on the slopes were ideal for the prehistoric dwellers (San) to make their engravings of animal and abstract designs. On Gestoptefontein these outcrops were "swan" into huge pieces by means of twisted steel cables running zig-zag on pulleys for several kilometers. These blocks were then sawn by the same method into more manageable pieces of about 500 x 500 mm. Occasionally the "sawing cable" got stuck on one of the metal spheres embedded in the pyrophyllite. They vary in size from " 30 ? 50 mm in diameter and have perfectly concentric grooves round the center as if they were molded. Inside the hard "shell" some have a spongy substance, while in others it resembles charcoal. When only partly embedded so that they can be seen on the surface, they are not all spheres, but some are also oblong in form. According to Professor Andries Bisschoff of the University of Potchefstroom (retired some years ago) they are limonite concretions. Due to the relative scarcity of the spheres and the almost impossibility for outsiders to obtain samples from the mine, his conclusions have not been verified by other scientists. It is very strange that the grooves are always and only round the center. Mr. Credo Mutwa, a notorious witch doctor from the city of Soweto was brought to the museum by a TV ? team some years ago and he as well as some amateur archaeologists believed the spheres to be from outer space. It is also hard for me to believe their theory. The original sphere exhibited in this museum was stolen by a white sangoma (witch ? doctor) - not Mr. Mutwa, for its supposedly magic qualities and was never retrieved. Inquiries were made from all over the world about this phenomenon. Countries include Canada, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, England, USA, Norway, France and Botswana. Institutions such as the University of South Florida, Miles Price and Associates, the Society for Physic Advancement (S.A), Kokkolan Kaupunchi (Finland), Esotera (Germany) Geologisches Institut der Universiteit Pleicherwall (Germany), the Department of Philosophy UICC (Chicago), Danfoss (Denmark), Illustreret Videnskab (Coppenhagen), Louisiana Geological Survey, Gale Research Company (Michigan) and Search and Research Institute of Florida also made inquiries. Closest Natural Mineral to Compare With The Metamorphic Conjecture of Origin 
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. 
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. 
Somebody or Something obviously has been around for a long time, before primivive humans. The excistence of the sphere came to my attetion ca 1977 while removing endangered rock engravings from the site where pyrophyllite or "wonderstone", as it is commonly known in the region, is mined on the farm Gestoptefontein (meaning plugged fountain) near the little village of Ottosdal about 110 km from Klerksdorp in South Africa's Northwest Province.
I wrote NASA HQ, to confirm or deny this in 2000, and never received a reply. Mr. Hund's letter was removed from the Klerksdorp Museum page, afterwards, when I checked back some time later, and the page re-designed.
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#1. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#0)
Now where have I seen something like this before.....? Oh, yeah...I thought it looked familiar.
There's one of the moons in our solar system, not sure if it's Jupiter's moon, or Saturn's moon that also looks like the death star. I think this article is pretty nifty.
The Hidden History of the Human Race
"That's no moon...." Sorry. Slipped into Star Wars quote mode. I think I overloaded on the new movie last week.
On a more serious note, the moon in question is Mimas. It's one of Saturn's moons.
Is it any good?
It's a lot to take in. You follow a storyline for almost 30 years and it all gets wrapped up after six movies...leaves you kinda numb. Cool effects, good fight scenes, everyone knew the ending. The side-show provided by the others in the theater was pretty good, too. It was made clear to the fools who brought their light sabers and dressed like Jedi that distractions were not going to be tollerated. The boiler-plate "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." came onto the screen and during that moment of silence we heard one guy in the middle of the theater announce "Alright, shut it, you damned nerds!"
#2. To: orangedog (#1)
#3. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#0)
#4. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#2)
There's one of the moons in our solar system...
#5. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#2)
#6. To: orangedog (#4)
I think I overloaded on the new movie last week.
#7. To: Tauzero (#6)
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