[meteorite-list] Space Adventures Antarctic Meteorite Expedition

From: Mark Miconi <mam602_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:40 2004
Message-ID: <001101c19582$a1ef82c0$04f20541_at_fwlr1.az.home.com>

Dean you hit this one straight on the head. You can bet if I went on this
trip that I would be swallowing rocks. 2 for them...one for me...gulp. I
would not mind having to dig them out later!

Mark M.
----- Original Message -----
From: dean bessey <deanbessey_at_hotmail.com>
To: <chrisfaranetta_at_sprintmail.com>; <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Space Adventures Antarctic Meteorite
Expedition


> >I would love to hear opinions on the expedition which has just >started,
> >see link below:
> >CF
> >Between January 3rd and the 18th, Space Adventures' is leading a
> >once-in-a-lifetime meteorite recovery expedition<snip>
> Hmmm. That company has been running that trip every year. How is that
"Once
> in a lifetime". Somebody must have a very short life span.
> And I suspect that they will continue having these trips as long as they
can
> sucker enough people into paying $40,000 to cover the cost of the
> governments meteorite search trip and to provide free labour to search for
> them in a very inhospitable environment that it would be hard to imagine
> anybody wanting to actually go to. I guess that it is all in the way it is
> marketed.
> If they marketed their trip as it really is - which is a "Freeze your ass
> off while providing free labour and huge funding to help the government
find
> meteorites trip", then likely nobody would go.
> Not that I have a problem with that if thats how people want to spend
their
> money.
> I bet that that company could sell snow to eskimos
> Cheers
> DEAN
> >
>
>
> to the Thiel mountains of
> >Antarctica. With the expedition underway, we invite you to follow our
> >team's
> >discoveries through our website!
> >http://www.spaceadventures.com/terrestrial/antarctica/index.html
> >
> >
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