Is it possible to artifically fossilize bones?

[Halfcentaur]

I am wondering if we have the capability to artificially create the conditions necessary and to accelerate them to create artificial fossils. I think it would be awesome to have my skeleton fossilized and preserved forever if I was a wealthier man(centaur hybrid). I know they can create diamonds, and thinking about it led me on the track of thought to considering this.

 

[shadron]

Presuming you are talking about the creation of mineralized bone...

You could certainly create optimal conditions and get the transformation in minimal time, but the collagen and other soft tissues have to be ready to disintegrate and be replaced by mineral coming out of dissolution. That would, of course, happen faster in an ozone atmosphere or in UV radiation, but those don't usually promote mineralization.

It depends also on the amount of mineral available in the water and the presence of CO2 dissolved in the water (at least when replacing with carbonates).

 

[Halfcentaur]

So it's never been done before? I think it would be a neat thing to do, overall. If it's possible.

 

[Halfcentaur]

And what else could I be talking about but the mineralization of bone? Is there another term for fossilization, or is it only a term applied to a process that takes a long time?

 

[ThunderChunky]

Of course it's possible. How else do you think the evolutionists fabricate the fossil record?

 

[Halfcentaur]

I want my bones to be rock hard and deadly when I am gone.

 

[Damien Evans]

Of course it's possible. How else do you think the evolutionists fabricate the fossil record?

If that's a joke, it wasn't very good.

If it wasn't, get yourself to the nearest mental hospital.

 

[shadron]

I want my bones to be rock hard and deadly when I am gone.

Well, then, where there's a will there's a way.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Of course it's possible. How else do you think the evolutionists fabricate the fossil record?

Exactly what I was thinking. They already claim that a hat coated with mineral deposits was "fossilized in a few decades". If a way was found to actually fossilize bones, even if it required the LHC to work a year on a single bone, they'd claim that's where all of the ones we have now came from.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I want my bones to be rock hard and deadly when I am gone.

*poof* You're a chicken.

 

[Halfcentaur]

I am a hairless turkey fetus hybrid thing with goat legs, actually.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I am a hairless turkey fetus hybrid thing with goat legs, actually.

I'll bet that beefs up your C.V. no end.

 

[Halfcentaur]

Due to my physiological discrepancies, I have issues identifying acronyms.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Due to my physiological discrepancies, I have issues identifying acronyms.

C.V. is curriculum vitae, or academic resume.

 

[Soapy Sam]

Acronymphomania?

 

[Halfcentaur]

I want my bones to be preserved for extraterrestrial archeologists, mostly.

 

[Beanbag]

Well, from back in the 1950's I recall a taxidermist who developed a process of injections that would turn a fish's flesh into a substance like concrete. No scent or odor. You could break the resulting "carcass" like a brick. It was either in Popular Mechanics magazine or Popular Science (my father had a bunch of old magazines in the garage when I was growing up). I suppose something similar could be developed for mammal flesh, something like the bio-plastinization process they use for those macabre bodyworld exhibits.

Beanbag

 

[Halfcentaur]

Ah yes, with the clear plastic sort of thing. I know what you're talking about. That makes me think of completely different avenues.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Are we sticking to the strict definition of "fossilization"?

 

[Halfcentaur]

Are we sticking to the strict definition of "fossilization"?

Yes, originally. My original question concerns taking a bone and replacing the necessary components with mineral deposits, in effect turning the skeleton to stone, exactly like one'o dem fancy dinosaurs like that thar Adam and Eve had to run away from.