Swedish seafaring treasure hunters Ocean X Team made headlines last year with the accidental discovery of a mysterious circular object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Now, thanks to more exploration and a laboratory analysis of stones on and around the object, they’re a step closer to lifting the veil on the mystery. The stones that lay on the object turned out to be red granite which came with the ice age. Dennis Åsberg’s theory is when the ice melted, the stones landed on the object.That would mean it should have been there more than 140 000 years. Recent examination of the object has revealed a hole about two meters in diameter and that the object is not anchored to the ground. Dennis Åsberg: ”We have discovered that the object is separated from the ocean floor it’s laying on a ridge, we’ve investigated the object with the ROV robot and looked at the object from below. One can see that the bottom and the object is separated. ” The material of the object is too hard, so it has not been possible to remove anything from it yet, says Dennis. But they have managed to bring up some stones that have been on and around the anomaly for analysis. The team have also found many black magma-like stones at the site. The theory is that the object must have been at a very high temperature at some point. This caused stones in its vicinity to become charred. Dennis Åsberg: ”As I see it, when we’ve been and looked at it, it looks really strange to me, it looks like something is designed, in that we have these angles, 90 degree angles, the aisles of the object.” Dennis hopes that their next expedition will be in spring when the frigid Nordic weather has improved.
Next Spring? I can't wait that long! Here's the video:
Huh.. This poison tastes old; Really old! Yahoo News. Excerpts:
The late Stone Age may have had an earlier start in Africa than previously thought —by some 20,000 years. A new analysis of artifacts from a cave in South Africa reveals that the residents were carving bone tools, using pigments, making beads and even using poison 44,000 years ago.These sorts of artifacts had previously been linked to the San culture, which was thought to have emerged around 20,000 years ago. "Our research proves that the Later Stone Age emerged in South Africa far earlier than has been believed and occurred at about the same time as the arrival of modern humans in Europe,"study researcher Paola Villa, a curator at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, said in a statement.
The Later Stone Age in Africa occurred at the same time as Europe's Upper Paleolithic Period, when modern humans moved into Europe from Africa and met the Neanderthals about 45,000 years ago. "[T]he differences in technology and culture between the two areas are very strong, showing the people of the two regions chose very different paths to the evolution of technology and society," Villa said.
Like I've said before, if we don't kill ourselves first, the next 50 years promises so many history changing discoveries here on earth.. If we don't kill ourselves first.
Are you kidding me? There's a second anomaly? The suspense is killing me here! Rather than finding one or two unknown entities, what if explorers have happened upon an unknown/unexplained area? One of the coolest stories of 2012. The Truth Behind The Scenes. Excerpts:
Baltic Sea UFO Update June 28, 2012. This is turning into one of the most amazing and perplexing discoveries in history. If you thought all of the questions surrounding the Baltic anomaly would be answered by the return trip, then you’d be wrong. The OceanX team have discovered right angles, walls with absolutely smooth surfaces and cavities-like corridors inside the object as well as something resembling a staircase – the weird just got weirder. And: In a recent Swedish radio interview, Aasberg described some amazing features which seem to indicate that the object is man made, or perhaps a natural formation that has been altered or engineered. In various radio and TV interviews the team have described the surfaces of the dome to be similar to concrete both in texture and appearance. The massive pillar on which the dome rests may be made of a different material indicating that the entire anomaly may not be one complete piece but rather two separate objects with the dome resting on top of the main pillar, and if so, who or what placed the dome on top? Also, when we say pillar – this is a pillar that is approx 180-190 feet thick. “We arrived there twice, and the question mark has become so much bigger now, “says Dennis Åsberg.The area is a completely circular plate with 180 metres in circumference, and therefore believed that it was the first traces of a meteor.” “But there are 1,500-metre track in bed until the subject matter-and they have also discovered right angles, walls with absolutely smooth surfaces and cavities-like corridors inside the object.– When we went out and saw the walls which were straight and smooth, it was frightening, as in a science-fiction film, “says Dennis Åsbergon Ocean x-team as soon exploring the unknown object again.“ During the dive, the team swam slowly over the top of the object looking down where they encountered the first of many strange sights. Stone circles, like “fireplaces”, of hard black “almost petrified” burnt looking stone each a few inches in diameter, like 4 or 5 pearls in a necklace in various arrangements on top of the dome some 12 metres high off the seabed.The stones appear to be arranged in definite circular shapes, so there is no possibility of this being done through any natural process of weathering or even glaciation. And: Some 200 metres away liesthe second strange anomaly which is amazingly yet to be explored!The initial sidescan sonar images show something described by the team as shaped like a “gothic church window”. Similar to the main anomaly this object also has an area leading up to it of disturbed seafloor or what could be a ridge. The divers were so amazed by the main anomaly that they simply didn’t have time to dive on the second one. The return trip in two weeks time should present an opportunity for this to finally be explored.
There is the real possibility that the second anomaly may help give clues to the origin and nature of the main object.
Lindberg concludes: “The 3D Multibeam sonar data take a while to process. It will not be until end of next week we will be able to see the first 3D images from the area.I have seen the raw data though and if what I have seen will be confirmed by the finished result we will get some quite amazing facts to think about.”
So tantalizing.. I can't wait! Provided this isn't a hoax, this could be a huge discovery.. But where? Again: What is this? Alien technology? Ancient settlement? UFO? Rooftop? Outskirts of something larger?
Somebody somewhere needs to fasttrack and enlarge this project yesterday already! This discovery could be big clue for us, about us. It has that potential. I hope it's made a priority.
Have you ever heard of the 2,000 year old Antikythera mechanism? The Antikythera Mechanism as it is known, is regarded as the world’s oldest “computer” and is thought to have been used to predict movements of the sun, moon and planets and record dates of the ancient Olympiad. Its remains were recovered from a Roman shipwreck off the southern coast of Greece in 1901. The significance and complexity were not understood until a century later. The construction has been dated to the early 1st century BC. Technological artifacts of similar complexity and workmanship did not reappear until the 14th century, when mechanical astronomical clocks were built in Europe.
What was initially dismissed as an anomaly – a rock with a cogwheel embedded in it must be so for other reasons, including much later shipwrecks– was a device with at least 30 (some say 70) gears, all precision engineered (the teeth were hand-cut equilateral triangles).
More proof that yes, we have no idea of our ancestors' technological capabilities. How many of our computers would survive 2000 years? Our modern perspectives must be retooled, and our minds opened to the possibility that ancient societies achieved more than we understand, and more was lost than we can comprehend..
Don't believe it? Ok, then; Let's here YOUR theory! The precision of this masonry suggests mathematical knowledge and construction skills not normally attributed to neither the Incas nor this time period. And yet, here's the evidence..
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