[meteorite-list] Editorial

From: Mike Farmer <farmerm_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:43:29 2004
Message-ID: <3B4605B4.81F3FD21_at_concentric.net>

STOLEN? Stolen from whom? I pay for mine. Mr Franco, let's get down and dirty.
Every time you post here people ask you questions, you NEVER respond, you just
make statements like this one.
Since you passed on every chance to explaine yourself, and tell your point of
view on why you feel buying is stealing and supposedly finding and taking
without paying anyone is the correct way, I tell you to SHUT UP!
You have had many chances to say what you wanted, you refused all of them, we
do not want to hear your rash statements without supporting information.
Good Bye Good Riddance
You are now insulting the highly respected scientists and hard working people
who make meteorites fun and interesting.
Mike Farmer

Michel Franco wrote:

> NWA is a way to rename stolen meteorites (if any) and it is one of its few
> weaknesses. All other aspects seems to fulfil the a large majority in the
> meteorite community.
> best regards
> Michel FRANCO
> Caillou Noir
> 100 Chemin des Campènes
> 74400 CHAMONIX - FRANCE
> http://www.themeteorites.com
>
> ----- Message d'origine -----
> De : Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_yahoo.com>
> À : <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Envoyé : jeudi 5 juillet 2001 20:29
> Objet : [meteorite-list] Editorial
>
> > ... but seriously folks...
> >
> > It looks like the marketing of meteorites from NWA has
> > received another black eye, this time in print, on the
> > "Editorial" page of the most recent issue of "MAPS" -
> > Meteoritics & Planetary Science (Volume 36), Issue 6,
> > 2001 June.
> > The editorial is by W. A. Cassidy: "Meteorites on the
> > Greenland icesheet?" - you'll have to look it up,
> > because I don't have permission to reprint it.
> >
> > But the gist of the statement, which was in the last
> > paragraph, was that, if the supply of meteorites for
> > sale [in the bazaars of North Africa] becomes too
> > slim, [the Moroccan] dealers order specimens of other
> > meteorites from elsewhere i n t h e w o r l d and
> > resell them at generous markups as "North African"
> > meteorites.
> >
> > Now here are my questions:
> >
> > Correct me on this, but aren't NWAs the cheapest
> > selling meteorites "in the world"?
> >
> > If not, where "in the world" are the Moroccans going
> > in order to get these cheaper meteorites?
> >
> > Is it possible that the Moroccan importers are better
> > at their job than their counterparts in North America
> > and Europe?
> >
> > Okay, I guess comments like the one in the editorial
> > about NWA meteorite markets are to be expected, since
> > the purpose of the article was to extoll the value of
> > Antarctic meteorites to science over those from hot
> > deserts.
> >
> > The editorial ended with this sentence, "Hopefully,
> > whoever may visit the suggested sites in Greenland
> > will arrive prepared to collect and document any
> > recoveries in the same way it is done in Antarctica,
> > and thereby insure that any Greenland collection will
> > have the same value to science as does the Antarctic
> > collection."
> >
> >
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Received on Fri 06 Jul 2001 02:38:45 PM PDT