Bro! Despite differences we have bonded over “WTF? They still do that? How archaic are they?” Except we know. 
I recognized the POS old car my welding guy wasn’t restoring 40 years ago by its color It runs, sorta.
Lots of coal mining in Romania. High risk of explosion because of the dust. So it makes sense.
“Pre-civilization” high-tech artifacts are fun to ponder or intriguing, and a very small number of items have been discovered but they always turn out to be something like this, a recent item mistakenly identified as somehow ancient. If there were long lost civilizations we’d be finding all kinds of the stuff routinely.
It’s funny how often people seem to miss how utterly bat-shit crazy David Icke is. I think he does have somewhat better presentation skills than your average loon, probably from his former career in the mainstream media, but I don’t see that he is so good at presenting his piffle that it isn’t immediately obvious it is total bilge.
I think it is even more ridiculous that people take him seriously when you look at how is current career was partly launched from him becoming a national figure of ridicule in the UK for a short while:
Icke is a guy from fairly humble origins who started out as professional goalkeeper (soccer), but only played a handful of professional games at lower professional level before his career was cut very prematurely short due to arthritis. He then moved into sports journalism and worked his way up to be a mid-tier pundit/presenter on UK national TV, with the minor celebrity status that entailed. If anyone is familiar with Steve Coogan’s Alan Partridge character, then the kind of figure that Icke was at this time, was exactly the early-nineties minor-celebrity UK sports journalist that Coogan was originally satirizing.
Whilst still a sports Icke started getting into new age beliefs and it seems not long after he had a mental breakdown and famously (in the UK) called a press conference to declare himself the second-coming of Jesus Christ. The national ridicule and publicity lead to the episode that he is most well-known for in the UK, he appeared on Wogan (the UK equivalent of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson at that time). Wearing a turquoise and pink shell suit, he reiterated his claim about being the Second Coming, somewhat oblivious to the audience’s laughter. The incident still appears on top craziest/embarrassing TV moment-style lists in the UK.
After this he faded a bit from the mainstream spotlight in the UK, but used his residual celebrity and notoriety to become a writer of New Age flim-flam. At some point he seems have got into the darker side of New Age ideas and developed into arguably the most well-known conspiracy theorist in the World, his most well-known belief being that the World is run by a cabal of shape-shifting lizards. As far as I am aware, he has never overtly adopted the racial-theorizing of the extreme-right, he has come under substantial criticism for adapting old antisemitic conspiracies into his new-agey conspiracy theory narrative, flirting with holocaust-denial and courting the extreme-right in the US.
You could accuse me of poisoning the well here, but I would say that I am just pointing out that the well was well and truly poisoned long ago.
From a link in google images of ‘aluminum excavator teeth’; this guy has found one that matches the object precisely.
Spoke too soon, I guess that is just a conceptual drawing of how it would attach to a bucket if it were an excavator tooth.
Still much more convincing than either VTOL landing gear part or ancient UFO widget.
But are there some examples of actual excavator teeth that match the relic?
If it’s pre-1945 and of Earthly origin, it should lack traces of radioisotopes from nuclear fallout.
Of course, if it’s of alien origin, all bets are off.
The same applies to NaturalNews, Infowars, Rense, and whale.to. If you can’t find a better source, you don’t have a source.
I couldn’t find anything exactly the same, but there is considerable variety - and many of the examples to be found on the web have quite similar features - for example: http://scotor.en.ecplaza.net/26.jpg
Also, the artifact is broken, old and maybe from some weird foreign manufacturer nobody has ever heard of.
When Trump is elected, he’ll bring back all those jobs that went interstellar.
Alpha Centauri IV has been devaluing it’s currency for years.
Why should we even believe the claim that it’s aluminum?
It looks like it is - there’s a fresh hole drilled in it (I’m assuming that was done to sample the material. If it was found with that clean hole in it, then I don’t think anyone would even begin to claim it was very old)
Looks more like a pedal from a Delorean fitted with a flux capacitor. And just as likely as a space ship part.
At least with the DeLorean, you know that something associated with the company got you high and made you go fast…
Testing it’s density would be pretty easy, a small sample could be run through a mass spectrometer …
Of course, if it’s of alien origin, all bets are off.
All of those examples have the hole from side to side. I couldn’t find an example with a vertical hole as in the supposed artifact.
I truly doubt it is an excavator tooth. If it was, it would surely be evidence of alien origin since we lack the technology to produce such an item from aluminum that would hold up. As **Magiver **said in Post #14, it would take longer to attach it to the bucket than it would last in use. Aluminum is just too soft. If non-sparking was a requirement, there are non-ferrous materials (such as beryllium-copper) that would be suitable, but I am not even sure there is much need.
Not likely an aircraft part; it’s too easy to design an equivalent part that would be much lighter.
If it is made from aluminum, I would suspect it is part of a conveyor system. As mentioned already, why should we believe that it is made from aluminum any more than we believe it is 250,000 years old?
I am not a metallurgist, but I cannot find what tests were done or how reliable they are. All I can find is that the item was originally tested in Romania, then tested in Switzerland.
David Icke?
It’s obviously an artifact of the original landing of the Reptilians on this planet…
This blog has a little more information.