120 Million Year Old Stone Slab With Map Discovered!

ThrAx · 28-12-2002 2:42am #1

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?)

DiscoStu · 28-12-2002 3:01am

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

very very very stange me thinks

ThrAx · 28-12-2002 3:11am

Why not? Maybe so it would last long?

daveirl · 28-12-2002 3:18am

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kamobe · 28-12-2002 4:29am

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...

GoneShootin · 28-12-2002 4:37am

(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

Slydice · 28-12-2002 5:10pm

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

:rolleyes:

ThrAx · 28-12-2002 11:17pm

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

Nietzschean · 06-01-2003 7:55pm

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

Victor · 06-01-2003 8:03pm

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.

OSiriS · 10-01-2003 3:36pm

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.

Scruff · 10-01-2003 3:56pm

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

Ryo Hazuki · 15-01-2003 10:36pm

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.

Victor · 15-01-2003 11:54pm

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.

DapperGent · 22-01-2003 10:16pm

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.

120 Million Year Old Stone Slab With Map Discovered!

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