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Many consider archeology a terribly boring science as long as does anyone accidentally discover interesting finds that difficult to fit into the well-known system of phased development human race and our civilization. It’s a pity that pretty often these anachronisms or artifacts are simply fake.
Ever since the cradle of our civilization, the African continent called the country of mines or the “lower world”. Great amount minerals, including diamonds, have already been mined, and now for the search for new ones has to literally bite into the bowels as possible deeper.
Balls from the face
Once in the town of Ottosdal, miners digging a layer pyrophyllite over 2.8 billion years old began to find spheres from metal. The diameter of these balls of unknown origin is approximately 2 to 10 centimeters, and on some of them 3 parallel lines along the axis of the subject are engraved. Two types of balls were found: some consist of solid bluish metal with white spots, while others are hollow.
When they managed to split, it turned out that they were covered a shell of approximately 6 mm thickness. Sponge inside material that, when exposed to air, turns into dust. Sometimes the filler may resemble charcoal. Other balls have a very hard metal shell that cannot be scratch even with a steel object.
But the main mystery for scientists was the transverse notches grooves. Indeed, in nature this by itself will not work. In addition, it turned out that on a flat surface balls amazingly stable. Verification showed that they are balanced extremely accurate – up to one hundred thousandth of an inch.
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One NASA scientist admitted they don’t have the technology to make something so perfect. Perhaps you can do this only with zero gravity. That is in space. Scientists who had a chance to explore spheroids, agree in one opinion – they made artificially and could not arise by themselves.
But the most surprising came about after one such ball became a museum exhibit. Museum staff found that this a spheroid lying under a glass cover rotates slowly around of its axis, making a complete revolution in 128 days. In the newspapers right there there was a confused comment by a geologist professor from Johannesburg University: “I don’t have the slightest representations what it can be. This is a mystery. I’m just not in able to give no explanation! ”
Mysterious messages
Immediately, there were experts who stated that the balls were aliens are “optical disks, containing the secrets of the universe. “In their opinion, once” chosen ” reveal their secret and use the knowledge gained to save Of the earth.
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The Dutch scientist Lurker, for example, suggested that these balls three billion years ago, aliens brought with them. And what are they were nothing more than containers filled with unicellular life forms. True, the scientist did not specify where this single-celled life in the past tense.
Other researchers were inclined to believe that the balls were made by a race of earthlings who lived long before our civilization. Like, at that time, something happened on our planet natural disaster, and therefore sentient beings left her. A metal balls – fragments of the greatest civilization in The universe.
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There were those who were sure that the balls were not at all. ancient technologies, and vice versa, future ones. Well, let’s say flew to we from the future some kind of time machine broke here. The traveler either died, or somehow managed to return to the future, and the details of his car remained here.
There are, of course, versions and more mundane – in the literal sense the words.
Natural rebus
Since the Earth has undergone many disasters in its history, then the layers of soil and earth could repeatedly move, change in places. And maybe some items could fall into more ancient deposits are purely accidental.
Researcher Paul Heinrich rightly wrote that around this problems raised a lot of unhealthy noise provoked in in particular, yellow editions. And it’s not true that South African spheroids there is no scientific literature. She is. And from her it follows that pyrophyllite is by no means a sedimentary mineral. is he formed at moderate temperatures at depths of several kilometers. Contacting mineral experts – geologists from South Of Africa and other specialists, Heinrich was able to establish that Mystical balls are composed of pyrite and goethite.
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In the process of transforming clay or volcanic ash into pyrophyllites formed pyrite spheres. And from pyrite ore kidneys, or, nodules, altered by weathering near Earth’s surface, goethites arose. Why are balls so hard? Because goethite ore buds may also include other, harder hydroxide minerals.
In fact, the balls turned out to be nothing more than natural nodules, and the grooves on them are imprints of layers of rock in which they have grown.
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Well, what about the rotation of the ball in the window? Museum Director in Klerksdorp Rolf Marx said that balls really rotate, but only because the building vibrates due to underground explosions in the mines. If you put any other ball in the window, it too will spin!
By the way, the British got the hang of doing on similar balls business process and polish pyrite spheroids with a diameter of 7-15 centimeters and profitable (for a hundred or more dollars apiece) sell their lovers of exoticism.
By the way, metal balls of perfect shape are not only found in bowels of the African continent – still they … fall to the earth from the sky. So, most recently, in mid-November 2011, one such “surprise” fell from the sky to a pasture at a distance of about 750 kilometers from Windhoek, the capital of Namibia.
The large metal ball was hollow, rough to the touch, had circumference 1.1 meters and a diameter of 35 centimeters. He weighed kilograms. It looks like the sphere consisted of two welded halves together.
Goba Meteorite, Namibia – perhaps the mystery of African balls generated by the fall of this b0-ton block
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At the insistence of agitated locals, Namibian authorities sought clarification from NASA and the European Space agency. Experts concluded that the ball is made of “a metal alloy known to man.” So what about the “alien” origin of the find does not speak in this case have to. But in that case, where did this strange come from an object?
Experts claim that the ball from Namibia and other similar objects for the most part are empty tanks from under oxygen and fuel that are installed on boosters. Although it is believed that they completely burn in dense layers atmosphere, individual fragments can still reach the surface Earth, since the tanks are made of fairly durable material and often still have a braid made of heat-resistant carbon fiber.
In favor of the “garbage” version speak and holes left not far from the place where the Namibian ball falls objects that have sunk into the soil as a charge of buckshot. Most likely this even smaller rocket fragments.
So the fact that mysterious objects are falling from the sky is to blame more often than not, the man himself is a mysterious alien.
Irina STEPKINA
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