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120 Million Year Old Stone Slab With Map Discovered!

  • 28-12-2002 1:42am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 973 ✭✭✭


    This is indeed very strange as humans have not existed on Earth this long. The slab was carbon dated and everything. Read about it here:

    http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/04/30/28149.html

    (Off Topic: Would this be the place to post paranormal/ufology threads?)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭DiscoStu


    if they were so technologically advanced why would they make a map on a 1 tonne rock? :)

    very very very stange me thinks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 973 ✭✭✭ThrAx


    Why not? Maybe so it would last long?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,483 ✭✭✭✭daveirl


    This post has been deleted.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 857 ✭✭✭kamobe


    I can't find any 'reliable' sites on the net discussing this, but there are hundreds of sites mentioning it.

    When i say there's hundreds, here's some examples:

    www.techdirt.com/articles/20020517/006255_F.shtml
    web2.iadfw.net/dsh440/map2.htm
    www.parabolicmirror.com/2002_04_28_pmarchive.html
    www.audioasylum.com/forums/outside/messages/86450.html
    www.mysteriousearth.com/archives/000037.html

    Need i say why I'd query such sources? :rolleyes:

    Very interesting nevertheless...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,478 ✭✭✭GoneShootin


    (Off Topic: Would this be the place to post paranormal/ufology threads?)

    id image it would depend on the subject matter.

    given the large amount of sensational clap-trap (as in redneck rampage style) with alien abduction etc, im sure thread after thread of said rubbish would not be appreciated.

    that said, what seems paranomal now may be publicely and scientifically acknowledged in later years.

    again, subject matter and mood of mod will dictate :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    Originally posted by DiscoStu
    if they were so technologically advanced why would they make a map on a 1 tonne rock? :)

    very very very stange me thinks

    Indeed, why would anyone want to write anything on a rock :confused: :rolleyes: :p:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 973 ✭✭✭ThrAx


    Methinks there should be some kind of paranormal/ufology/cryptozoology board. We could call it the Fortean board.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭Nietzschean


    Originally posted by ThrAx
    Why not? Maybe so it would last long?

    the primary purpose of a map is immediate function for ones lifetime, not really to survive that many millions of years tbh, i agree with the others when its in nature i'll believe it...sounds alot like crap made up for some media attention


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Of course the rock could easily be 120m years old and the map on it could be 4 years old. And the Ural Mountains looked an awful lot different 120m years ago.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭OSiriS


    Agreed victor. That is something that really gets to me about carbon dating. It is based on the decay over-time of the carbon 14 isotope. Maybe someone could clarify for me how the age of the map can be determined from rock formed 120 million years ago.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,225 ✭✭✭Scruff


    my post was going to include the two points Victor and OSiriS made.
    nuffin else to add at this point :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,348 ✭✭✭Ryo Hazuki


    Carbon dating is only accurate for the last 75,000 years.

    After that it becomes unreliable as the level of C14 is so small.

    A rock cant be carbon dated afaik.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Originally posted by Ryo Hazuki
    A rock cant be carbon dated afaik.
    Should be if it has a carbon content or has fossils in it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,838 ✭✭✭DapperGent


    Originally posted by Victor
    Should be if it has a carbon content or has fossils in it.
    Only if they haven't become totally permineralised.

    I think they use a different heavier radioactive isotope for really old and non-organic stuff. I think it's ratios in the Uranium decay chain but I honestly can't remember at the moment.


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