XLR plug discovered in "100,000 year old" rock - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Richard Crowley
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 05, 2015, 10:30:22 pm
content: http://www.adguk-blog.com/2014/01/100000-year-old-three-pronged-plug.html

author: electr_peter
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 05, 2015, 10:48:42 pm
content: The gullibility of public and share incompetence of journalism has just dropped even lower than typical low. I fear that in near future main title of a paper will read "iPhone was found in ancient burial".

author: SL4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 05, 2015, 10:51:24 pm
content: well, let's see...There's gullible, and there's gullible.Closely followed by fraud and fakery.The generous suggestion is sedimentary or volcanic origin.The photos look like either. Granite, no thanks - and XLR plugs didn't exist back when... so it must be something else. (cough, cough).Without very close examination, the the pin geometry looks slightly 'non standard' - perhaps from China, India, or Eastern Europe - ITT/Cannon may have to relinquish their design registrations to homo erectus..Why didn't the rock flow between the pins? What metal is it? What plastic is it?It could be intended for use with free-energy devices?

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 05, 2015, 10:56:06 pm
content: Nooo its a IKEA night light ...

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 05, 2015, 11:15:24 pm
content: No, it's one of those waterproof outside/poolside speakers...

author: John Coloccia
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 06, 2015, 12:13:11 am
content: If you rest it on your cd player, it will expand your sound stage, lower the noise floor, and neutralize the ions that collect on the speaker cones. The prongs must face magnetic north, of course.

author: ivaylo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 06, 2015, 06:43:14 am
content: What's the big deal, Internet Of Things... In the future all rocks will have sockets.

author: cimmo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 06, 2015, 07:33:18 am
content: Find rock.Drill hole.Smooth hole edges.Insert glue.Insert XLR connector..Profit!

author: Artlav
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 06, 2015, 08:07:52 am
content: That's some very corrosion resistant metal in the pins, to survive 100000 years and still be shiny.Also funny how they think "aliens" and "ancient advanced humans", while the most obvious one should be "time travel" (well, besides "hoax").

author: lapm
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 06, 2015, 09:34:10 am
content: Makes me wonder when our civilization falls, what sort of crap people keep finding in ground few thousand years after that...And when ever they will be having similar fake/real discussions about it...

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 06, 2015, 10:18:02 am
content: Maybe it's one of those Israeli 'surveillance rocks'. Only instead of the entire function in one fake rock, this is part of a modular fake-spy-rock system. Plug the rocks together, get different feature sets.Amusingly, that rock looks a bit like pumice stone. Which is ironic. I've been trying to buy a pumice stone for the bathroom for ages, but they don't seem to be available in shops any more. And I can't find any big pieces on beaches. I bought one from China via eek-bay, and guess what? FAKE pumice stone. Completely useless. It's made of that cheap stuff statues of Buddha are cast in, then colored to look like some kind of stone. Same as this one was fake colored on the outside. It's soft, not abrasive at all. Pic below of it snapped open. I gave the seller a negative despite his giving full refund and pleading because apparently he'd lose some seller rating. Tough shit. He can't possibly not have known it was fake and useless.

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 06, 2015, 11:45:08 am
content: Quote from: Tac Eht Xilef on June 05, 2015, 11:15:24 pmThat's what I thought too.

author: T3sl4co1l
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 06, 2015, 01:13:31 pm
content: Quote from: ivaylo on June 06, 2015, 06:43:14 amTim

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 06, 2015, 02:40:43 pm
content: Thats not an xlr but o e of those stupid 3 pin din plugs all audio equipment used in the 70's. Low cost Wannabe rock, probably from china.Now, If it had been embedded in a nice piece of marble on the other hand ... Everyone knows marble just sounds bettter. Less wooly, better placement and the crispness of the 50KHz and above signals is just eye watering. Of cours it needs combining with dinosaur skin draped mahogany terminated bronze connectors .Oh, and you also need abag of magic pebbles . And some fairy dust, unicorn farts and probaly an amplifier made from vacuum pulled glass balloons with pieces of scrap metal in em.

author: T3sl4co1l
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 06, 2015, 02:43:18 pm
content: Quote from: free_electron on June 06, 2015, 02:40:43 pmI prefer asbestos rock; it has better damping characteristics.

author: SL4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 06, 2015, 10:13:04 pm
content: Quote from: T3sl4co1l on June 06, 2015, 02:43:18 pmEither way, it should be standing on 'infinite point' legs to reduce resonance and vibration with the mountain-top. and are those OFC pins anyway?

author: TopLoser
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 06, 2015, 10:55:22 pm
content: New style Farnell packaging.

author: N2IXK
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 06, 2015, 11:35:27 pm
content: Finally! A bit of electronics that even UPS can't manage to break in transit!

author: TopLoser
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 06, 2015, 11:39:24 pm
content: Quote from: N2IXK on June 06, 2015, 11:35:27 pmThat was the 'as delivered' photo. Plug was totally encased before they got hold of it!

author: Richard Crowley
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 06, 2015, 11:49:41 pm
content: However it came to be embedded in the rock, it actually isn't an XLR male pin insert.It is the male pin insert from a vintage Canon UA-3 plug which is somewhat bigger.The UA-3 was the immediate PREDECESSOR of the XLR plug as we know it today.

author: TopLoser
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 06, 2015, 11:56:46 pm
content: Quote from: Richard Crowley on June 06, 2015, 11:49:41 pmDo we need to be taking worse case UPS delivery times into account now?

author: Deathwish
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 07, 2015, 12:05:40 am
content: Careful guys, I see a Toploser sale coming up

author: Pinkus
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 08, 2015, 11:18:09 am
content: Quote from: TerraHertz on June 06, 2015, 10:18:02 amHere you can get a ton (1000 kg) for just 90 Euro.... but personal pick up only. It is old stuff, so very probably no chinese did fake ithttp://www.ebay.de/itm/1-Tonne-Bimsstein-aus-alten-Mauerwerken-mediterran-Trockenmauer-Naturstein-antik-/360662042401?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_77&hash=item53f9220721

author: digsys
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 08, 2015, 11:43:58 am
content: You fools .. it's an ePotatoe !! brought out by Apple. You can download recipes direct and it even has cloud access

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 08, 2015, 05:40:48 pm
content: Quote from: Pinkus on June 08, 2015, 11:18:09 amthan get a kilo or three and post it to TerraHertz in Australia, he would definitely not mind a little extra, though his postie might pop a gasket on having to hump the parcel up to his door. Just declare it as a gift, and value it at $1.

author: John Coloccia
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 08, 2015, 07:18:39 pm
content: Thread title should be changed to "30 year old plug found in 1 year old fake rock". Honestly, that's a lot more intriguing too.

author: Richard Crowley
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 08, 2015, 07:43:13 pm
content: There is a growing collection of "out of place artifacts" found in places all over the planet. Including many that are clearly not "faked". They are simply dismissed by people who have conflicting world-views.

author: rx8pilot
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 08, 2015, 07:53:07 pm
content: That rock could never deal with +4dBu without clipping.

author: Refrigerator
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 08, 2015, 08:45:30 pm
content: The new IRock, guaranteed to get you rockin' in only one hit.

author: jlmoon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 08, 2015, 08:57:24 pm
content: Quote from: rx8pilot on June 08, 2015, 07:53:07 pmNo No.. "Chipping"

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 09, 2015, 01:03:19 am
content: Quote from: Richard Crowley on June 08, 2015, 07:43:13 pmExamples?As fond as I am of that sort of random Forteana, I can't think offhand of any examples where the claimed anachronism is supportable - or hasn't been at least been given a plausible explaination that also fits the verifiable facts.(Of course, simply asking probably marks me as someone with 'conflicting world-views'...)

author: Richard Crowley
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 09, 2015, 02:56:32 am
content: Quote from: Tac Eht Xilef on June 09, 2015, 01:03:19 amhttp://lmgtfy.com/?q=out+of+place+artifacts

author: Mr.B
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 09, 2015, 03:04:01 am
content: Quote from: Richard Crowley on June 09, 2015, 02:56:32 amVery good Richard. I do like that.I have not seen that before... And so as not to look too ignorant I searched the forum and found that lmgtfy has only been used 30 times.32 now...

author: mikron
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: June 09, 2015, 05:17:21 am
content: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Out-of-place_artifact

author: mtdoc
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 09, 2015, 06:14:38 am
content: Quote from: mikron on June 09, 2015, 05:17:21 amRationalwikiExcellent! I hadn't seen that site before. Thanks.Woo. I love that!

author: John Coloccia
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 09, 2015, 08:32:58 am
content: The Aluminum Wedge of Aiud...A friend of ours ripped off her bra at our wedding. Now those were a couple of out of place artifacts

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 10, 2015, 01:00:44 am
content: Quote from: Richard Crowley on June 09, 2015, 02:56:32 amYes, very droll (but not very original). You win the internet. Try not to bump the 'off' switch when you collect your prize...But I'm still curious to see examples that "are clearly not faked" and "are simply dismissed by people who have conflicting world-views". Silly claims about objects embedded in '100,000 year old granite', or objects that are 'mysterious' simply because some clown says they're mysterious, aren't even close.

author: rx8pilot
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 10, 2015, 01:53:44 am
content: Pretty sure you can trust this guy from the History channel show.

author: John Coloccia
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 10, 2015, 01:54:35 am
content: Anyone who's ever been around old, Soviet technology will tell you just how silly the idea that some ancient civilization came up with modern, familiar, "forgotten" technology, and it got embedded in some rock. Someone mentioned time travel. That would be more likely, IMHO.