[meteorite-list] Is Ted Bunch an idiot?

From: Tom Knudson <peregrineflier_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Aug 19 11:23:52 2005
Message-ID: <004c01c5a4d2$00ca1be0$2d107918_at_Michelle>

"You are calling a retired NASA scientist an idiot."
No, if you read it, I am calling the other guy an idiot!!!! It would seem
you do not understand sarcasm! Or are you saying the guy who can tell from
the picture is correct, therefore I am calling Ted an idiot?

Thanks, Tom
peregrineflier <><

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Farmer" <meteoritehunter_at_comcast.net>
To: "Tom Knudson" <peregrineflier_at_npgcable.com>; "met list"
<meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Is Ted Bunch an idiot?


> Tom, you it seems are an idiot.
> You are calling a retired NASA scientist an idiot.
> I am in shock, just when I thought you could go no lower, it has happened.
> Please think before you type.
> No reply to me needed.
> Mike Farmer
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Knudson" <peregrineflier_at_npgcable.com>
> To: "met list" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 8:03 AM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Is Ted Bunch an idiot?
>
>
> > Hello List, I bought an unclassified meteorite on ebay, cut it, thought
it
> > was really nice, unlike anything I had seen, so I sent it in for
> > classification. Later, I sent a picture to the list and someone
commented
> > that it looked like NWA 869.
> > So when the classification was complete, to avoid any trouble, I asked
> > Ted Bunch if there was any possibility of NWA 2906 being paired with
869,
> > he
> > said;
> > "I have over 50 reference slices of 869 - we are doing a research
project
> > on
> > this stone. In addition, I helped T. Boswell sort out odd balls from 400
> > kg
> > 869. I have seen a lot of 869 and it does have many variations. Your
stone
> > is not 869."
> >
> > I quoted Ted on my auction;
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6554595054
> >
> > But someone on the list says he can tell from the pictures that it is
> > NWA
> > 869 and that I am an idiot for trying to sell it as something other than
> > 869.
> > So I am trying to figure this out, should I think Ted Bunch is an
idiot
> > even after he had just finished classifying this stone, ran a thin
section
> > through the probe and studied it under a microscope.?
> > Or should I assume the guy who thinks he can tell from the picture is
an
> > idiot?
> >
> > I do not want to be selling something that is not what I said it was.
If
> > it is 869 I will make it clear, but I have to know who to believe, the
> > meteorite scientist who studied it, or the unknown guy that can tell
more
> > from a picture than the guy who studied it. .
> > Thanks, Tom
> > peregrineflier <><
> >
> >
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