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So far I am convinced they are the result of either

A) time travel

or

B) seriously flawed dating techniques...what if carbon 14 dating is totally bogus?

Perhaps the screw isn't embedded in anything. The 'rock' itself could have been a man-made object that became fossilised, and the screw was part of it.
Seriously flawed dating techniques is the most likely explanation, though. How many people have ever questioned the supposed infallibility of carbon dating?

Carbon dating is not solid fact, you do know this?

I have always believed that civilization has advanced at least once but probably several times in the past, then wiped out by some cataclysmic event.
If youve ever seen the show on the History channel, Life after people, it shows what happens to the hardiest of structures, even after a few hundred years.
Steel decays, returning to the earth where it was formed. What doesnt decay gets buried beneath water, earth and or vegetation.

I also agree with OP's title, "screw 300 million years old"...



Why do we trust carbon dating?

Originally posted by cerebralassassins


Hey there, not sure if this has been shown before, but a screw found and estimated at 300 million years found on earth via a meteorite, hmm this obviously suggest intelligence not of this world.

Yep those damn iron nuts, bolts and screws off spaceships million and millions of years advance to us just seem to never stay on....

Meteorites are billions of years old...not sure how they suggest a 300 million year old one, and it looks more like light colored calcium type buildup than a rock...just saying.

It's like the 100 million year old iron hammer head found in a rock that looks exactly like an 1800 hammer head, I think if we focus on anything it is the suggested age and type of the rock it was found in. Here we have once again a simple item made up of basic materials and we want to suggest it is something it is not.

I agree with you all as far as carbon dating being accurate, but how off can the scale be ?

Originally posted by Signals

B) seriously flawed dating techniques...what if carbon 14 dating is totally bogus?

You can't carbon date rock....the magic word is carbon as in the lack of....

Can someone help me here, although the translation is kinda sketchy but those have knowledge on the below quote might be able to shed some light...

Case of "error" was excluded because in addition, as shown by subsequent studies, the screw is there really a huge amount of time, since the iron atoms of the screw and the atoms of silicon (from which the rock consists mainly) have spread across the two ylika (silica) .Oi X-rays revealed that exist within the rock bolts and similar .. as well as two small round balls that have square holes.

Is someone able to explain this *Note, i placed the term (silica) as i google what was written and it showed this term as the appropriate explanation.

It looks more like a spring. Like on a clutch.

Anyone who takes a serious look at this universe and comes to the conclusion that humans are the only life form with technological intelligence loses all intellectual credibility as far as I see it.

By my count, the probability of nonhuman intelligence existing on earth at some point is nearly 100%.

Science says it took humans 2 mil. years to go from monkey to modern. That's an eye blink. Even if intelligence only developed in the most recent 1% of time, that gives a head start of hundreds of millions of years on humans. If humanity is continuous for just another 10,000 years, then wow to that possibility.

The question is not whether intelligent life can develop, but whether it can survive...

All of the science really only considers water based life and that's probably a major flaw.