stone slab which is 120 million years covered with the relief map of Ural Region

[jason200669]

The white slabs of Bashkiria

google as i cant post link yet

Has any news of these ever been confirmed or debunked?

[Boerseun]

Did not do a Google search for it, because it won't be necessary.

Suffice it to say that any stone slab 120 millions years old would not have anything intentionally engraved, scratched, or molded on its surface survive 120 million years of erosion.

If, by any chance, this particular stone slab has something on it that might resemble the Ural mountains or any other arbitrary form or shape, that resemblance resides totally in the viewers mind - a mind which also seems not to take in mind that the Urals of 120 million years ago also did not look like the modern, eroded version thereof.

If you see the Urals on a slab of stone, great. There are more mysterious coincidents afoot.

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by Boerseun

Did not do a Google search for it, because it won't be necessary.

Suffice it to say that any stone slab 120 millions years old would not have anything intentionally engraved, scratched, or molded on its surface survive 120 million years of erosion.

If, by any chance, this particular stone slab has something on it that might resemble the Ural mountains or any other arbitrary form or shape, that resemblance resides totally in the viewers mind - a mind which also seems not to take in mind that the Urals of 120 million years ago also did not look like the modern, eroded version thereof.

If you see the Urals on a slab of stone, great. There are more mysterious coincidents afoot.

I did google it, the stones do have carvings on them, the question is how old are the carvings? I think the premise of the carvings being on a 120 million year old slab of rock makes them 120 million years old is flawed to say the least. I have a chunk of marl in my yard that is certainly many millions of years old but if I carved something on it's surface and many years from now it was found would there be a reason to think the carving was many millions of years old? As the great cow says, erosion should have erased any possible carving over that time period but still there is no reason to assume the craving is that old to start with

[jason200669]

Forgive me if this sounds a little frustrated.
I ask a simple qustion about an artical, if you cant be bothered to read it please dont dismiss it, just stay quiet.
Rant over

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by jason200669

Forgive me if this sounds a little frustrated.
I ask a simple qustion about an artical, if you cant be bothered to read it please dont dismiss it, just stay quiet.
Rant over

I read it, I was unimpressed.....

[jason200669]

Originally Posted by Moontanman

I read it, I was unimpressed.....

I have to admit i am disapointed with the maturity of that remark!

But! anyway, the intent was not to impress but to question..
If the following paragrapgh did not make you curious then why even reply to the thread, nothing constructive has been added by your statment!
It is not the age of the stone that is of interest but what is carved on it, but haveing read it you would know that and realise your reply wasnt relevant!

Scientists found a large stone slab in 1999 that features an relief map of terrain like those that the military has. The map shows canals stretching for 12,000 kilometers and enormous dams. There are rhombs close to the canals, but what they mean is unclear. And there are also many inscriptions looking like hieroglyphs. At first it was thought they represented an ancient Chinese language, but it was established later that was not the case. Scientists cannot yet decipher the meaning of the hieroglyphs.

Thanks for your opinion though even if you where unable to answer my question.

[Thunderbird]

The story has only one ambiguous source, makes absolutely no scientific, logical or historical sense what’s so ever.

[jason200669]

Originally Posted by Thunderbird

The story has only one ambiguous source, makes absolutely no scientific, logical or historical sense what’s so ever.

I agree, i have been unable to find any other source and that is good cause to doubt it, but it got me curious! So much of our history is unknown. In the time man has been walking upright only the last few thousand years have been recorded. How many times during the unrecorded history could man have reached the same technological hieghts we enjoy now and lost it all, just for nature to wipe the evidence away?

[Thunderbird]

Originally Posted by jason200669

I agree, i have been unable to find any other source and that is good cause to doubt it, but it got me curious! So much of our history is unknown. In the time man has been walking upright only the last few thousand years have been recorded. How many times during the unrecorded history could man have reached the same technological hieghts we enjoy now and lost it all, just for nature to wipe the evidence away?

If you are sincerely curious about archeology.. study archeology.

[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by jason200669

I agree, i have been unable to find any other source and that is good cause to doubt it, but it got me curious! So much of our history is unknown. In the time man has been walking upright only the last few thousand years have been recorded. How many times during the unrecorded history could man have reached the same technological hieghts we enjoy now and lost it all, just for nature to wipe the evidence away?

That is why I was unimpressed, I've seen many stories of unusual stuff coming from out lying areas of the world especially the vast empty areas of Asia, everything from crashed alien space craft to living Neanderthals and so far they have all been BS. With out a lot more documentation I remain unimpressed...... and I think rightly so, less than mature or not. As for how many times a civilization equal to ours could have been on this earth only to be lost forever? None at all, we will be obviously detectable for many millions of years after we are gone. We create far too many high tech products that simply do not go away in any thing other than geologic time.