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  1. 3rd July 2005, 08:50 PM #1
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    Hi all
    I found this on the beach some years ago.
    I found it with the metal detector. Gave a very good signal.
    Looks like graphite, very light weight, broke easy.
    The piccys are parc sorry, it has a metalic luster, through a loupe it has spherical balls all over the broken surface.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ozwinner
    very light weight, broke easy.
    .........through a loupe it has spherical balls all over the broken surface.

    Al :confused:
    Part of an old Esky
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    Hey Al! gimme back those bits off my flying saucer! I crash landed on your planet a few years back and am still trying to repair my craft so I can get back to the mothership. I'm finding it hard to locate the pieces as all those alfoil beanies are deflecting the rays of my locating beams.

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    What am I
    A dealer in fine crap?

    Oh, you're talking about the thing you found on the beach. No idea.
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    Its a calcified fur ball outa a sperm whale.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ozwinner
    Hi all
    I found this on the beach some years ago.
    I found it with the metal detector. Gave a very good signal.
    Looks like graphite, very light weight, broke easy.
    The piccys are parc sorry, it has a metalic luster, through a loupe it has spherical balls all over the broken surface.

    Al :confused:
    Hi Ozwinner,

    Could this be some of the material that the vessel "Glomar Explorer" was designed and built to recover from the ocean floors? I know that the "GE" was commissioned by the CIA for various (and often mis-reported) nefarious affairs, but also believe that it's original mission was to recover these molybdenum (?) nodules.

    Anyway, can you do anything with said "balls", or is it just a lot of old balls

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grunt
    A dealer in fine crap?

    Oh, you're talking about the thing you found on the beach. No idea.
    No a dealer in fine parc.................hey.............how come you wrote crap and didnt get sensored???

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    probably agrees with Grunt
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    Quote Originally Posted by ozwinner
    Hi all
    I found this on the beach some years ago.
    through a loupe it has spherical balls all over the broken surface.

    Al :confused:
    So how big is this stuff and are the balls indented and about 1/2 mm across




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    Quote Originally Posted by ozwinner
    No a dealer in fine parc.................hey.............how come you wrote crap and didnt get sensored???

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    He didn't get sensored because " dealer in crap" is your vocation, not a dirty bit!
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    Consulted a whale doctor and he assured me it was part of a kidney stone :eek:


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    I think it's a bit off of that Phoenician ship buried in the sand at Warnambool or wherever.

    Might be part of the anchor.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ashore
    So how big is this stuff and are the balls indented and about 1/2 mm across




    The trouble with life is there's no background music.

    Dare I say it? :eek: ........the balls are raised, and about .5mm or under in size.

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    That's definately the regurgitated foileys coughed up after the aliens ate the poor sod who was wearing the foiley.
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