MYSTERY OBJECTS

[Stanley]

That too.....!

[Tizer]

Not TVP but Weetabix is getting closer. Clue: what do you eat in Italy?

[PanBiker]

Pasta, is it the structure of various Wheat strains?

[Gloria]

Cheeses? Parmesan, motzarella?

[Cathy]

Different shapes/types of pasta is all I can think of.

[Tizer]

Pasta is the word I wanted you to get. There's more to it than that, because it's a representation of something else but is being described as `pasta' from its appearance. I'll tell you what it is because you wouldn't get the extra bit unless you were a follower of obscure astronomy news and I only found it by chance. It's a graphic representation of `nuclear pasta' which is what the astrophysicists are calling the stuff deep inside neutron stars and which is the hardest known material in the universe. They say a teaspoonful of it would weigh around 90 million tons! The scientists have used simulations to stretch and deform the nuclear pasta to test its strength, and this required about 2 million hours of computer processor time. You can read more about it here (and there's even anti-spaghetti!).... LINK

[Wendyf]

Any thoughts on this one? Bottle top there for size comparison.

[Gloria]

A rotten tooth from a horse?

[Wendyf]

Ha Gloria, I knew you would get it straight away! I dug it up in the muck heap this morning. Sparky lost it last winter. It's hard, smooth and shiny...

[chinatyke]

A rotten tooth from a horse?

Wow, I'm impressed. I was going to say a piece of agate.

[Stanley]

I was on the same line as China but was going to say Amber!



Can you tell me what this is?

[plaques]

Wild boar tusk. Ex East Street Barlick.

[StoneRoad]

Sheep's horn ?

[StoneRoad]

scratch that - maybe Walrus.

Has it been polished ? the surface looks very smooth

[Stanley]

Sorry Kids, all wrong. At least according to the opinion I was given by someone who said they were sure.

[chinatyke]

Looks like a toe nail from a huge bird so I'll guess Ostrich claw.

[Tizer]

The end of a rhino, elephant or mammoth tusk.

[Gloria]

A walrus tooth?

[Stanley]

No, sorry. Not the end of something larger. If you look it has a recess in the end where it was in the gum, it's a complete tooth. I'll give it one more day.

[Gloria]

Musk deer?

[Stanley]

Sorry Gloria no. I think I have put you all through enough misery! I got this tooth in a box of ivory fragments that came out of an old workshop and before anyone asks I am perfectly satisfied that it's at least 100 years old. I sent a pic of it to the Natural History Museum in London and they replied that it was either a lion's or a tiger's canine tooth, they would have to have it in their hands to do tests to decide which. So that's the answer to the best of my knowledge.

[Gloria]

What do you think this is?

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[Stanley]

I think I know Gloria and it's such a good one that I'll hang back and let someone else crack it. Very unusual and a goodie.

[Big Kev]

Is it a gate closing mechanism?

[Stanley]

I don't think I have ever seen five members on a topic at one time! before. Lovely.
Don't let them off too easily Gloria. Be totally without ruth!!