Age of Man ( and scale cube appearance )

Paul bristolia at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 20 09:58:22 EDT 2009

Carl asked:

"I have two questions about this very interesting
video that may be a bit off topic. The questions are ;
Could this possibly be true and does this sort of
thing happen in meteoritic's. see link below.
Thank's."

This video is discussed in detail in " NBC's "The Mysterious Origins of Man" at:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/mom.html

A Review of NBC's "The Mysterious Origins of Man", by Glen Kuban at:

http://paleo.cc/paluxy/nbc.htm / http://paleo.cc/paluxy.htm

and another review in "NBC's Origins Show" at:

http://www.csicop.org/sb/9603/origins.html

My favorite part of the video is the mysterious stone spheres that this video
mentions as having been found in from South Africa. They are discussed at:

1. Klerksdorp Spheres

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klerksdorp_Spheres

2, Heinrich, P.V., 2007, South African concretions of controversy:
South African Lapidary Magazine. vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 7-11. at:

http://www.onlineminerals.com/admin/my_documents/my_files/11A_South_African_Concretions_of_Controversy.pdf

and 3. OOParts: Klerksdorp Spheres

http://www.ooparts.us/klerksdorp-spheres.htm

Notice the scale cube in the picture of Moqui marbles at:

http://www.ooparts.us/images/klerks69.jpg

Yours,

Paul

Russian Language Scale Cubes

Paul bristolia at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 27 12:40:46 EDT 2007

Has anyone ever produced any foreign language scale cubes?

I am wondering if any scale cubes using Russian characters
have been made?

Yours,

Paul H.

Centimeter cubes

Paul bristolia at yahoo.com
Thu Jun 21 23:55:27 EDT 2007

Does anyone know why the specific letters, which are
found on a standard centimeter cube, were originally
chosen?

Svend wrote:


>thanks for your kind words on the scalecube story. No,

>the cubes circulating with the broad engravings and

>the "1cm" gimmick are a follow up product done by

>someone else. They also use a different font than the

>original NASA type cubes.


I have to wonder if ten years from now, there will be
people collecting the different types of scalecubes /
centimeter cubes as people on this list are collecting
meteorites. I can just see people searching for a Drake
centimeter cube for their collection as a person would
look for either a Thuathe or a Brahin for their collection.


>However, every cubeless collector is free to choose

>what product serves best his duties. And we encourage

>everyone who whants to give it a try to produce his or

>her own cubes. Its a free market, and hey, in the end

>its just a cube ;)


Maybe someone can convince the Geological Society
of America to make and sell them as they sell grain-size
cards, field photoscales, field notebooks, and other
stuff used by geologists. It seems to me that geologists,
paleontologists, and even archaeologists would benefit
by using the centimeter cube instead the bizarre
collection of coins, keys, photoscales, and other
objects used as a scale in pictures of rocks, fossils,
and artifacts. I will be using centimeter cubes for
scale in the pictures of rocks, fossils, and artifacts,
which I take to illustrate articles and papers.

Best Regards,

Paul