Earliest known iron artifacts come from outer space

Doubtdispelled · **#21** by **Doubtdispelled** » Aug 22, 2013 8:39 pm

Evolving wrote:
Doubtdispelled wrote:
Evolving wrote:
Doubtdispelled wrote:
You do know that that is now the first sign, don't you?

I used language I never thought I'd use in the hearing of my ipad, poor lamb.

Have you apologised to it?

I said sorry and then we hugged. Same as I do with my small one.

Oh dear. That's now the second sign.

Doubtdispelled · **#22** by **Doubtdispelled** » Aug 22, 2013 8:41 pm

Evolving wrote:
Doubtdispelled wrote:
pensioner wrote:I'm made of star dust every atom in my body is made of that shit. By the dog I'm good at science.

Oh, I hate to be a pedant; but it's not true of the hydrogen.

Oh, where's your poetic soul? Where's your appreciation of art? We are star-dust, we are golden....

Evolving · **#23** by **Evolving** » Aug 22, 2013 8:41 pm

SafeAsMilk wrote:
Evolving wrote:
SafeAsMilk wrote:I guess an easily accessible source of iron on the surface of the planet would be giant balls of it that collided with the earth's crust. Who knew?

Easily accessible? I haven't managed to access any as yet.

I didn't know you were searching for deposits

Presumably it's easier to find than the kind that's imbedded deeper in the crust. A little less digging, I'd imagine.

Doubtless correct; but I was thinking of the rarity.

If they were able to dig up bronze, presumably they must have been able to dig up iron too, but I suppose they simply didn't know what to do with it until some bright spark thought of smelting.

Evolving · **#24** by **Evolving** » Aug 22, 2013 8:46 pm

Doubtdispelled wrote:
Evolving wrote:
Doubtdispelled wrote:
pensioner wrote:I'm made of star dust every atom in my body is made of that shit. By the dog I'm good at science.

Oh, I hate to be a pedant; but it's not true of the hydrogen.

Oh, where's your poetic soul? Where's your appreciation of art? We are star-dust, we are golden....

I recently downloaded an album by the lady you quote, including that particular song: inspired, rather embarrassingly, by Emma Thompson in Love Actually. Listened to it a number of times, and I rather think I love it.

pensioner · **#25** by **pensioner** » Aug 22, 2013 8:48 pm

Evolving wrote:
Doubtdispelled wrote:
pensioner wrote:I'm made of star dust every atom in my body is made of that shit. By the dog I'm good at science.

Oh, I hate to be a pedant; but it's not true of the hydrogen.

True that. :thumbup:

Varangian · **#26** by **Varangian** » Aug 22, 2013 8:50 pm

Evolving wrote:
Doubtdispelled wrote:
Evolving wrote:
Doubtdispelled wrote:
You do know that that is now the first sign, don't you?

I used language I never thought I'd use in the hearing of my ipad, poor lamb.

Have you apologised to it?

I said sorry and then we hugged. Same as I do with my small one.

Your iPhone?

Doubtdispelled · **#27** by **Doubtdispelled** » Aug 22, 2013 8:51 pm

Evolving wrote:
Doubtdispelled wrote:
Evolving wrote:
Doubtdispelled wrote:

Oh, I hate to be a pedant; but it's not true of the hydrogen.

Oh, where's your poetic soul? Where's your appreciation of art? We are star-dust, we are golden....

I recently downloaded an album by the lady you quote, including that particular song: inspired, rather embarrassingly, by Emma Thompson in Love Actually. Listened to it a number of times, and I rather think I love it.

You old softie, you!

:smile:

Evolving · **#28** by **Evolving** » Aug 22, 2013 8:56 pm

True. I think I am regressing to times immemorial. I recently discovered Fairport Convention (you probably didn't realise they had been mislaid), and I suspect there are further treasures to be unearthed.

SafeAsMilk · **#29** by **SafeAsMilk** » Aug 22, 2013 8:57 pm

Evolving wrote:
SafeAsMilk wrote:
Evolving wrote:
SafeAsMilk wrote:I guess an easily accessible source of iron on the surface of the planet would be giant balls of it that collided with the earth's crust. Who knew?

Easily accessible? I haven't managed to access any as yet.

I didn't know you were searching for deposits

Presumably it's easier to find than the kind that's imbedded deeper in the crust. A little less digging, I'd imagine.

Doubtless correct; but I was thinking of the rarity.

If they were able to dig up bronze, presumably they must have been able to dig up iron too, but I suppose they simply didn't know what to do with it until some bright spark thought of smelting.

I'm sure they were digging up all sorts of things, only keeping what they thought was useful. Though there's probably much more iron under the surface, the stuff on top would be easier to find :smile:

Evolving · **#30** by **Evolving** » Aug 22, 2013 8:58 pm

Varangian wrote:
Evolving wrote:

I said sorry and then we hugged. Same as I do with my small one.

Your iPhone?

Far from hugging my iphone, I recently dropped it in the lavatory. I am here to tell you that after a day it was as if it had never happened.

Doubtdispelled · **#31** by **Doubtdispelled** » Aug 22, 2013 9:04 pm

Evolving wrote:(you probably didn't realise they had been mislaid)

I certainly didn't. They've been holding Convention Conventions at a village near to where my son lives since... well, it seems like since the iron age...

:shifty:

Evolving · **#32** by **Evolving** » Aug 22, 2013 9:10 pm

Cropredy; yes, I read about that. Does he go?

It's the much earlier Fairport that I'm referring to, though, with Sandy Denny.

Doubtdispelled · **#33** by **Doubtdispelled** » Aug 22, 2013 9:18 pm

Evolving wrote:Cropredy; yes, I read about that. Does he go?

Has done, yes, but he doesn't really need to as he can just sit out in the garden and hear it for free. :lol:

It's the much earlier Fairport that I'm referring to, though, with Sandy Denny.

Ah well. We can't have everything just as we would like it. :sigh:

CdesignProponentsist · **#34** by **CdesignProponentsist** » Aug 22, 2013 10:40 pm

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chairman bill · **#35** by **chairman bill** » Aug 22, 2013 10:44 pm

Evolving wrote:Oh, I hate to be a pedant ...

But you're so good at it. Play to your strengths.

laklak · **#36** by **laklak** » Aug 22, 2013 10:50 pm

Evolving wrote:

It's the much earlier Fairport that I'm referring to, though, with Sandy Denny.

I got to early Fairport Convention through Richard and Linda Thompson, who I got to through Richard Thompson, who I "discovered" at about 2 AM somewhere on the road in north Georgia. The late night FM station played "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" and I was gobsmacked by it. Found the CD and spent the next several years trying to learn the guitar part. Saw Richard two years ago in a theater sized venue in St. Petersburg (Florida, not Russia), just him and his guitar for 2 hours. Fucking brill.

Regina · **#37** by **Regina** » Aug 23, 2013 9:06 am

the_5th_ape wrote:
Researchers have shown that ancient Egyptian iron beads held at the UCL Petrie Museum were hammered from pieces of meteorites, rather than iron ore. The objects, which trace their origins to outer space, also predate the emergence of iron smelting by two millennia.

Carefully hammered into thin sheets before being rolled into tubes, the nine beads – which are over 5000 years-old - were originally strung into a necklace together with other exotic minerals such as gold and gemstones, revealing the high value of this exotic material in ancient times. The study is published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.

http://phys.org/news/2013-08-earliest-i ... space.html

And what exactly is newsworthy here?
That's been known by everyone with a passing knowledge of ancient cultures. Jeez.

Precambrian Rabbi · **#38** by **Precambrian Rabbi** » Aug 23, 2013 9:21 am

Evolving wrote:
Doubtdispelled wrote:
Evolving wrote:
Doubtdispelled wrote:

Oh, I hate to be a pedant; but it's not true of the hydrogen.

Oh, where's your poetic soul? Where's your appreciation of art? We are star-dust, we are golden....

I recently downloaded an album by the lady you quote, including that particular song: inspired, rather embarrassingly, by Emma Thompson in Love Actually. Listened to it a number of times, and I rather think I love it.

"Woodstock" was inspired by Emma Thompson? :scratch:

Evolving · **#39** by **Evolving** » Aug 23, 2013 9:31 am

chairman bill wrote:
Evolving wrote:Oh, I hate to be a pedant ...

But you're so good at it. Play to your strengths.

How right you are. Embracing who I truly am, now.

Evolving · **#40** by **Evolving** » Aug 23, 2013 9:32 am

Precambrian Rabbi wrote:
"Woodstock" was inspired by Emma Thompson?

You didn't know?

:lol:

Now we've had Richard, Linda and Emma Thompson, all in one thread.

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