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Re: ALH84001 and Me - Part 5
Dear List and Mr. E.P.Grodine;
I really enjoyed your story. It has put life to an occurance of people and
rocks. I hope for more. Best Regards, Dave Freeman
E.P. Grondine wrote:
> ALH84001 and other SNCs
>
> Which brings us to today. What I want to propose to you is this: If
> you are lucky enough to own any SNCs, why not lend them to your local
> university's biology department, so that they can examine them for
> fossils?
>
> Stuart has written several times about the look of
> joy and wonder on children's faces when he has passed around
> meteorites for them to hold at his talks. Can you imagine the look on
> the face of the head of a biology department when offered the use of a
> meteorite from Mars?
>
> Now I'm not proposing that you do this because of the good press it
> would generate for private collectors. Nor am I suggesting to you
> that you might want to do this to prevent the different governments
> from coming in and imposing regulations on collectors, so as to
> protect scientifically valuable specimens for researchers.
>
> No, I'm proposing that you do this out of self interest. Notice I
> said "lend", not "donate", in my proposal. What do you get in return
> for your loan?
>
> At the least, you get returned to you perfectly sliced and mounted and
> authenticated specimens.
>
> At best, they find something that was once alive and you and your
> descendants end up retired and very comfortable for many years to come.
>
> Thus ends my tale of "ALH84001 and Me". I hope that you have enjoyed
> it, and that you have not found it to be "off topic" or too
> distracting. I apologize for being so late in getting it to you, but
> I hope that you will understang that the press of family business has
> kept me pretty well occupied recently.
>
> (PS - If this does not get Ron Baalke back on the list, I hope that my
> next note will do the trick.)
>
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