[meteorite-list] The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

From: MexicoDoug_at_aol.com <MexicoDoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Jun 12 16:39:57 2004
Message-ID: <1d6.23b187cb.2dfcc419_at_aol.com>

>> So, you really think I'm "intrepid"?

>> ;-))
>> Bob V.

Listen here pardoner,

A brutal California Sun, desert hot lips, calamari eyeballs from the
systematic wandering about cemented mud curdled lakebeds at the lowest elevations
(=hottest), more than ocassional furnace-like winds, brilliant white glare, the
encouragement of the participation of others may not be as exotic or isolated
as Johnny Quest and Hodgi getting stuck in a Land Rover in the Sahara crawling
with contrasting African cultures, but only the sponsored Antarctic hunters
might have better bragging rights.

Typical Mohave desert humidity this time of year is in the 10% to 20% range;
temperatures to around 110?F (43.3?C) in the lower areas; and gusts common in
the 30 mph (50 kph) range, according to the almanac. The highest month-long
temperature ever measured on Earth was there (and probably during that month it
also beat the Libyan single measurement world record one degree more that the
corresponding California record). And I believe that by many measures in the
summertime the Mohave (Death Valley) area frequently has the record hottest
month on earth.

And then there's always all the pieces of Mars - which you know for a fact
were US Martians:) - and all the new material successfully recovered. Sure we
have similar conditions here in Northern Mexico... But that Mars and long list
of lakebed finds is part of being intrepid which is hard to ignore and
silences those of us who try to realize or meteorite hunting dreams ... of course
along with the other hardy pardners in your extremely challenging sandbox (or
groutflats), where Kit Carson blazed trails, native Americans once survived and
thrived, curious ghost towns remind us of Zane Grey romance and hardships of
the American frontier, bones of goldseekers and cattle alike are concealed or
ocassionally windblown exposed to catch a passing dried tumbleweed, and for
archaelogists even the challenge to reveal the site that most probably the great
Aztec Empire and Culture was born in an earlier time.

Yup, reconsidered, you're intrepid. No need to be bashful about it ...

Saludos
Doug
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