originally posted by: rigel4
a reply to: AtlanteanFugitive
Show me a piece of titanium buried in a Pyramid or some sucj place..
No ... none has or will.
Got to quote you on that, Titanium is highly oxidizable and will break down relatively rapidly once any anti oxidation layer has gone.
Pure Titanium forms a so called Oxide Barrier which is a layer which has already oxidised and so slows dramatically but does not actually stop
further oxidization.
So finding such a piece of Titanium assuming a previous advanced civilization had used it would be difficult if enough time had passed by.
One other thing that may remove such metals is if they are taken away and used again and again or in a weird science fiction/fact speculation if a
predator civilization payed a visit to a previous advanced civilization not with the intention of friendly contact but with the intention of helping
themselves to all that lovely refined metal and other raw materials nicely packaged, refined and mined for them already that such a civilization may
accrue on the surface of a planet.
Such a civilization could even exist periodically visiting suitable worlds and even seeding them and even planting the roots of civilization on
occasion not as colonies but as a farmer may plant crops in his field so that when they came back around the galaxy on there endless journey there
armada of giant locust like colony ship's could then strip bare such worlds and replant those that still had sufficient resources to make it worth
there while.
Of course that is NOT what I believe but your question and comment open all possible answers, if no one has shown you such it may not ever have been
found, it could be that such artefacts have and ended up in private collections or hidden from the public or it could be that like the wedge of Aiud
that is made from strange alloy of Aluminium which is also a very difficult and technologically demanding metal to refine since you need many tons of
bauxite to make just one ton of aluminium that unless it is found in extremely strange circumstance most people would regard unusually modern finds as
modern artefacts and just junk them.
Imagine a builder digging up land to lay foundations and he finds cable's and duct's, perhaps in a bad state of decay or perhaps not does he then
call an archaeologist? or does he regard it as just unmapped junk and remains from someone else work and after checking to see there is no current
just digs through it and assumes it is modern.
Or a similar case were he finds modern looking machinery.
He is not going to say that may be an ancient artefact but he is likely to say what moron buried there junk on my land.
The ONLY circumstance were strange finds are highlighted is when someone throws a lump of carboniferous era coal onto there fire only to find it has
a finely wrought metal chain it in, or when masons carving out some marble find that many feet down the same rock they are working on has already been
worked on by someone else but that someone else did so such a long time ago that the remains of there quarryman's board has itself turned to stone.
Or when they find Wheels that resemble those on a cart, buggy or chariot fossilized in the lime stone of the mine they are working on.
Or even stranger finds down in coal mines and there are a whole shed load of those though very few made it fully into the public light since like the
builder the mine owner and his workers do not want some professor to stop there work and leave them out of pay just because they find an ancient
artefact.
The few we have heard of therefore I would argue are merely the tip of a very huge ice berg of find's most of which are routinely lost and
forgotten.
Were the wedge of Aiud is concerned it could be just the tooth from a mechanical digger, aluminium is used were iron or steel could cause sparks so
is actually used quite often despite the relatively fragile nature of caste Aluminium by comparison to the harder metals and even though it is mostly
used in an alloy alternatives such as of course Titanium are also available - except when you are using it in certain chemical environments different
metals react differently so with Titanium being so reactive it is unlikely to be used in that manner except in niche applications.
Also the Wedges place of discovery, depth etc and it's unique alloy while showing NO extra terrestrial property's and being extremely unlikely to be
anything other than a digger tooth (So not likely a piece of UFO landing gear) suggest that the only reasonable explanation is that it is what it
appears to be a mechanical digger tooth, just one from an earlier civilization not ours.
edit on 14-9-2021 by LABTECH767 because: (no reason given)