Mysterious aluminium object dating back 250,000 years

[mbailey]

1) No element was created on Earth, very short version is that they all come from Big Bang or from dead stars. Elements heavier than iron can only be created in exploding Supernovas.



But yes- they most likely screwed up their testing..

Correct but I wasn't going back that far, but if we're gonna nit pick then I guess it formed in the Big Bang when all things were created.

There are two processes to create aluminum.  The aluminum we see used in production of many things, does not occur naturally.

One process requires the element alum.  The other process requires bauxite.

Aluminum does indeed occur naturally, number 13 on the periodic table of elements
The processe doesn't  create aluminum, it refine it from bauxite ore

Just like iron is extracted (mainly) from iron ores such as  Magnetite and Hematite

[APDrone]

How can it be a UFO if you know what it is?

Used-to-be Flying Object

[Meatwad]

They may end up retracting this story if it's found the dating process was contaminated by Al stable isotopes found in marine strata and other kinds of strata. Those are used for dating of when the strata was no longer exposed to cosmic rays entering the atmosphere. When the isotopes are buried then they begin to decay which is measured. The aluminum alloys we use to make aircraft parts do not decay the same way, they oxidize. The oxidization layer from contact with the soil will hold stable Al isotopes.

Then the nutjobs come out screaming government conspiracy for hiding facts

[zack1234]

Aluminium makes you go mad

[Shuffler]

Aluminium makes you go mad

If it's full of beer. 

[Xtrepid]

That looks like a bucket tooth from an excavator.

Worked for CAT, and was my first thought...

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[SPKmes]

That is quite clearly a T-rex tooth implant !!!....


 as can be seen in this rare image with reverse engineering and a little imagination we have developed the excavator bucket tooth design with which this is being quite clearly misinterpreted as.

[mbailey]

That is quite clearly a T-rex tooth implant !!!....

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 as can be seen in this rare image with reverse engineering and a little imagination we have developed the excavator bucket tooth design with which this is being quite clearly misinterpreted as.

Agreed, I'm going with Dino Dentures

[NatCigg]

1) No element was created on Earth, very short version is that they all come from Big Bang or from dead stars. Elements heavier than iron can only be created in exploding Supernovas.

2) Often you determine the age by looking for isotopes with a known half-life. The amount of the isotope gives you an idea of the age. (Carbon-14 is the most known one). The age of a stable element can of course not be determined.

But yes- they most likely screwed up their testing..

Plutonium!  Could be why they came here.  they got wind of our plutonium production, literally, from our atomic blasts in the 60-s and 70s.  And now they want some. 

ps. nothing but energy came from the big bang, a state of matter to hot for any organization.  only simple hydrogen was formed from cooling.  All else came from stars.   

[Flench]

Looks like the foot off a backho

[Furball]

Clearly manufactured, and appears to be part of some larger assembly...at least to this engineer. Even at the low-end age of just 400 years old, this predates modern metallurgy by more than 100 years.

It is part of the first car belonging to Lazs.  Is the old fart still around these parts?