The Coso Artifact

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Iron Woode

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its the anniversary of The Coso Artifact today.

Its the absolute proof that people are stupid.

What is the Coso Artifact?

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

its an old rusty sparkplug in a concretion. Somebody thought it was a 500,000 year old artifact and of course a bunch of new agers think its proof of something or other.

I lol'd at the "possible explanations":

- An ancient advanced civilization (such as Atlantis);
- Prehistoric extraterrestrial visitors to Earth;
- Human time-travellers from the future leaving or losing the artifact during a visit to the past.

yes, the Altantians were so advanced that they invented a sparkplug.

yes, aliens were so advanced their spaceships used sparkplugs and thought they would do a tune up while visiting here.

yes, time travelers from the future carry sparkplugs with them when they go back in time because.....

and some people wonder why no one takes all that pseudoscience stuff seriously.

:awe:
 

waggy

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sigh. i hope i'm not the only one that reads that as the "costco effect"
 

phucheneh

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Man, look at all these things...in...geodes?

I must not know what a geode is.

'coso artifact' GIS

The antikythera mechanism is far more interesting.

edit: also, did they find out what kind of spark plug it was? Cause a civiliation from a half a million years ago totally would've coincidentally invented something that looks exactly like what you would get out of a box marked 'Champion' or 'NGK.'

Or maybe it was ACDelco time travellers. That's where all GM's money went...
 
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