Oh no! Another alien probe

[Jehanne]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Lots of people are claiming that the stellar inception is the only way such would form. "Visitor from another star!" Tedious.

I am not claiming that it was an alien spaceship, only that such is not an absurd possibility.  More data is needed.

Where did I even mention alien spaceship?

[Jehanne]

I am not claiming that it was an alien spaceship, only that such is not an absurd possibility.  More data is needed.

Where did I even mention alien spaceship?

I was addressing the OP.

[Anomalocaris]

[Haipule]

[Anomalocaris]

Ahh, but what you don’t know is Jupiter and Saturn were also probably primarily responsible for all the inner planets getting the shit blasted out of them by any period of exceptionally intense meteor bombardment about 3.9 billion years ago.

We have clear mineralogical evidence that the earth had mild surface conditions and a good solid crust at least 4.2 billion years ago. But so intense was the bombardment the age of intact crust and geological structure on earth abruptly cut off at 3.9 billion years. It is as if significant amount of crust formed after 3.9 billion years survives. But everything formed before 3,9 billion years were utterly pulverized and nothing intact remains, only tiny mineral fragment that gets incorporated into later minerals.

[Jehanne]

Good explanation, A. Hopefully, there will be more of these objects for astronomers to study in the future.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Where did I even mention alien spaceship?

I was addressing the OP.

Then why did you quote me?

[Jehanne]

It was just a mistake...sorry.

[Haipule]

Ahh, but what you don’t know is Jupiter and Saturn were also probably primarily responsible for all the inner planets getting the shit blasted out of them by any period of exceptionally intense meteor bombardment about 3.9 billion years ago.  

We have clear mineralogical evidence that the earth had mild surface conditions and a good solid crust at least 4.2 billion years ago.   But so intense was the bombardment the age of intact crust and geological structure on earth abruptly cut off at 3.9 billion years. It is as if significant amount of crust formed after 3.9 billion years survives.  But everything formed before 3,9 billion years were utterly pulverized and nothing intact remains, only tiny mineral fragment that gets incorporated into later minerals.

I have studied geology since I was 6 when I first learned to read. My main interest in doing so was to find treasure such as gem crystals and precious metals. So I learned how to analyze geologic formations for possibilities. I have been successful.

Here on Maui I gathered data on the various lava flows. The West Maui Mountains are high silicate and Haleakala is very low silicate obviously by there shapes. So I learned where the high magnesium flows were and followed the rivers to the ocean and found alluvial olivine crystals. The ocean currents move the material around but I know what to look for. I have had some of them cut into beautiful peridot gems!

I think gold is easy to find if you understand it's nature. I have been successful in California but mostly couldn't touch it. I focus on micron gold and have even found small deposits of platinum group. Believe it or not, I once found a small deposit of very pure ionic gold! It took me 20yrs to figure out how nature did that. It is fascinating and very involved. It taught me a lot about finding gold beyond the books.

I think your understanding of geologic history and those old mineral deposits could lead to finding zircon.

It's amazing how many disasters this old earth has gone through over the ages. If you combine that with the pseudoscience's of "snowball earth" and "expanding earth" theory then how did anything survive these disasters? Evolution is forced to conclude that enough survived but, evolution drives me ape!