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250K year old aluminum thingy could be from alins. Looks like a small skid loader bucket.
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October 25th, 2016 at 5:57 pm
The shiny machined hole for the attachment bolt tells me the piece is not 250k old. 50 years old, maybe. Looks like a landing gear part to my eyes.
October 25th, 2016 at 6:14 pm
Excavator tooth.
October 25th, 2016 at 6:38 pm
“Could be part of an alien spacecraft…” but isn’t.
“Could be a message from an alien race…” but isn’t.
This is how some people try to attract viewers.
The only things missing from those Weekly World News-style “reports” are the “Bolivian Scientists”.
SO anything I don’t yet quite understand then, MUST be from a highly technological civilization on another planet, thousands to millions of light years away. I can’t find my car keys, for example, or I burned the pizza? Aliens. For sure. Pesky little bastards!
Oh wait; there are my keys…
October 25th, 2016 at 9:35 pm
Awiens. And aluminium. Right, brits?
October 25th, 2016 at 10:07 pm
Everybody knows what the Lightcraft 5000 Interstellar Multidimensional Galaxy Cruiser’s U-Joint looks like. That’s one right there. Duh.
October 26th, 2016 at 7:38 am
I read the paper about the alien messages. It’s got all kinds of red flags, especially the one about how the alleged signals show up when examined by frequency but not wavelength. Wavelength and frequency are two sides of the same coin: Frequency = speed of light / wavelength, and wavelength = speed of light / frequency.
The alleged signals are, in all likelihood, an artifact of their data reduction process, nothing more.
October 26th, 2016 at 8:42 am
There is no need to for us to fear a violent invasion from aliens. This election cycle demonstrates that even the most odious among them could likely win the race for POTUS.
October 26th, 2016 at 10:07 am
Cracks me up that if the two choices are:
A. There were ancient artisans that were aware and worked in various metals far earlier than what we originally thought.
B. Aliens
Must be aliens.
October 26th, 2016 at 10:42 am
Cart, meet horse. One goes in front of the other.
When I first moved to Austin, my kids played soccer on newly made soccer fields. The extra dirt from grading the fields was piled up right next to the fields, for later use as fill dirt elsewhere.
The dirt contained hundreds of softball sized fossils, Exogyra ponderosa, oysters from the Late Cretaceous 65,000,000 years ago. Cool fossils, but very common. I gathered them for use as landscape stones in my garden.
The finding of those fossils in immediate proximity to soccer balls does not mean the soccer balls were 65,000,000 years old. It means the fossils were exposed within modern times.
What next? Will the proximity of the Air & Space Museum and the great fossil collection in the Smithsonian, in DC, be interpreted to mean that the dinosaurs went to the moon in an Apollo capsule?
October 26th, 2016 at 2:01 pm
I never got past the thought that the dating methods were probably all fucked up, and that would preclude any discussion of ancient metal workers.
Any serious report, if it were to have any credibility, would at least mention the method or methods used for this presumed “dating “. We’d need to get straight into the scientific details. That they skimmed over those without mention is enough for me to dismiss the whole thing immediately.
You see in comments over there that several people who read “dated” somehow mentally inserted “radiocarbon dated” and then proceeded to argue the merits of carbon dating, which is of course ridiculous.
That anyone could take any part of that story serious is a tragedy. The story worked though, because we’re talking about it, and that’s what counts.