King Tut may have had a blade 'not of this world'

[Spaceception]

http://www.seeker.com/king-tuts-space-blade-identified-1831900657.html

That's pretty cool.

Edited June 2, 2016 by Spaceception

[PB666]

When i was a kid i had collected meteroites when mowing grass in my neighborhood. I collected couple mayonaise jars full of them. Some areas there was a meteorite every square foot or so, they tended to pop up after severe storms. They were particularly common on soil that had never been turned. 

I used to use them as shot for my wrist rocket, lol. what an intelligent use of uncommon items. 

[Spaceception]

33 minutes ago, PB666 said:

When i was a kid i had collected meteroites when mowing grass in my neighborhood. I collected couple mayonaise jars full of them. Some areas there was a meteorite every square foot or so, they tended to pop up after severe storms. They were particularly common on soil that had never been turned. 

I used to use them as shot for my wrist rocket, lol. what an intelligent use of uncommon items. 

That's cool, I assume you saw Meteor showers often.

[Panel]

(From xkcd)

 

[PB666]

35 minutes ago, Spaceception said:

That's cool, I assume you saw Meteor showers often.

Never. Never saw one meteor fall or hit a roof, I assume that the activity of the animals on the property pushed them out of the ground.

[Motokid600]

The Sword of the Morning o.O

[Vanamonde]

"Video removed by user." Meteoric iron, I presume? 

[magnemoe]

6 hours ago, Panel said:

(From xkcd)

 

Yes, however during the bronse age meteorite iron was the the best you could get if cost was irrelevant as it was for Tut.

[Shpaget]

"King Tut was buried with a dagger made of an iron that literally came from space"

All the iron came from space. It just a matter of when.

[kerbiloid]

[ancient Egypt on]
What is "iron"? His knife is made of strange hard and shining thing, but not a copper.
[ancient Egypt off]

9 hours ago, PB666 said:

When i was a kid i had collected meteroites when mowing grass in my neighborhood. I collected couple mayonaise jars full of them. Some areas there was a meteorite every square foot or s

Mmm... Moon?

[Spaceception]

7 hours ago, Vanamonde said:

"Video removed by user." Meteoric iron, I presume? 

Fixed, I guess they just reuploaded

[cubinator]

*cue plethora of uneducated conspiracy theories about Egyptians being able to mine asteroids*

That's pretty cool, though. I didn't know they had a particular use for meteorite iron. Thanks for sharing!

Edited June 2, 2016 by cubinator

[kerbiloid]

Ancient Egyptians: were mining asteroids before it became mainstream.

[Elrond Cupboard]

Strangely fitting, given Osiris Rex.

[Majorjim!]

All Iron on earth arrived by meteorite.. The entire earth and everything in it is made of meteorites.

[ProtoJeb21]

Odds are the blade was forged from a recently fallen meteorite. The Egyptians may have thought it was from a god (maybe Osiris), so they created a knife out of a chunk of it for the most sacred man living at the time: King Tut.

[Wjolcz]

Ooooh, I have to say you had me there for a sec. I actually thought this was some pseudoscience thread and was wondering why it hasn't been locked yet.

That's actually cool though. Given there are like hundreds of kilos of meteorites falling into the atmosphere every hour, I see no reason why a king shouldn't have one of those godly pieces himself.