Gold And Its Oldest Known Roots, Older Than Many May Think.

"Well...an advanced race capable of space travel over light years wouldn't have to come to our distant planet to find gold."

They may if they have a huge use for gold and no longer had any of their own and we were their next closet solid source. Their uses for it could be jewelry and decor, their currency, or like I stated, perhaps it hold secrets we can't understand or tap into yet....

Crystal is not a PM of course, but this is fun stuff here....

This is really taping into another angle here and jumpin tracks a weee bit, but you guys will find this fascinating as do I. Not really jumping tracks, crystal skulls. They say they are 12 for each of the 12 known planets with intelligent life. We are known as...."The planet of the children", they say. There is a 13th skull (That is correct, right out of that bad Indiana Jones movie, lol) with all the info of all the world's contained in it, and the other 12 has info from the world it came....

This is the interesting part, and hang with me here, as I think it is Microsoft has even now released that crystal has amazing storage capabilities, via way more than our current networks or known capabilities....

Like eight have been found here on Earth, and scientist can't explain their property's and how they were made....

http://www.dawn.com/2011/02/26/myth...hem-why.html

Or if you have some time and want view check out this 8 part you-tube series....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR32IsutTws

Earth has to be one of the worst planets in the universe to hunt for gold on. The gravity's way too high, the atmosphere's too thick, you've got to contend with cantankerous native lifeforms, and most of the good stuff has sunk down into the core - you'd have to blow the place up to get at most of it.

For a spacefaring race that desperately needed to mine alien gold, mining asteroids in star clusters with lots of supernova remnants would be a far more efficient means of acquiring it.

Of course, if they've got such advanced technology, why wouldn't they simply drop pieces of lead into their neutron transmutator and make as much gold as they needed? Heck, we have the technology to transmute gold, at a cost of billions of dollars an ounce - and that's still cheaper than flying all the way to Omega Centauri and bringing their gold all the way back here.

Good points Sap, esp the points about asteroid mining or Alchemy. Again fun to speculate, we will in all likelihood never know for sure, lol....

But then again, all intelligent species seem to have some members with that certain something that drives them to search and explore. And of course upon seeing a beautiful blue planet like Junior pointed out, that would be an amazing site to see in the Universe. Planets like Earth are probably far and few between. It would be like finding a needle amongst a 100,000 acres of haystacks I am sure to any species....

I was reading a great yahoo article about a recent piece from the Columbia, and read some great comments. One fellow listed about fifty pattens NASA formed through space exploration, and another pointed out that the pilot of the Columbia held tight on the controls trying to steer that burning shuttle, up until 23 seconds before complete disintegration, a true hero or Rocket man as the poster called him. Heck all the astronauts that died, seven from Columbia, another seven from Challenger including a teacher, and of course the three that died in the launch platform fire back in the Apollo days, and of course test pilots in the early days, a number I am not sure on....

My point, I think space exploration is what made this country great back in the peak of NASA, before we stop caring about it, and started shipping our company's oversea for cheap labor. Anyhow, two big things I think this country is missing now, just my worthless two and one Half Cents, lol.....

silverhawk74 said:



Too late, we are already here.


Seriously... the first time I ever saw a larger piece of gold - refined and worked into a coin - I knew why people throughout the ages cherished this metal.

The same thing with diamonds. When the fire of a diamond is witnessed, it is simple to see why these are cherished (although highly overpriced and a terrible investment). Glass and even zircons just do not match the diamond.

Even in very old civilizations we find they could refine gold b/c of its soft nature. Hence it was probably one of the first to be refined. It is useless for weapons, but oh what a beautiful ornamental item it makes. You just cannot compare the look of this metal to any other for beauty. Copper, steel, chrome, can all look really nice, but the color/shimmer/luster/whatever of gold seems to be preferred by humans.

Since the supply is far less than the demand, value is naturally attached as some are willing to pay/give more for it than others.

Of course this is only my opinion - we cannot go back and find out for sure.