[meteorite-list] AD: METEORITE CLASSIFICATION SERVICE
From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Jul 14 12:11:27 2006 Message-ID: <4befb215tm811f3nlmoqji5ehu8bu79i7k_at_4ax.com> On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 03:45:12 -0700, you wrote: >= > Anti-micro-collector? Maybe, but so am I to a degree. >Why have a tray of tiny bits when one could focus their funds and purchase a >single spectacular specimen? If something's worth doing, it should be done >well...no brainer in my opinion. Micros fill a human urge to make a >collection of something I guess, but it takes some of the fun - and all of >the awe - out of collecting. I, for example, find it much more exciting to >hold, say, a ten kilo iron, than a few tiny lunar micros, but maybe that's >just me. > Wherther that is your intent or not, that position pretty much ends up saying that only those with huge budgets should collect meteorites. If you can't afford a large piece, you shouldn't buy one at all? And if only large, expensive specimens were sold, the list of potential buyers would be much smaller, the number of buys would be much smaller, and there would probably be even fewer sellers than there are today-- and the meteorites that science is getting now would probably still be sitting in the Sahara. Taken as a whole world population, almost nobody cares about science. People care about the technologies developed by science that can improve their standard of living, but almost nobody cares about science just for the sake of learning something. Of the small percentage of people who DO care about scientific subjects, only a small subset of them care about asteroids. And only a small subset of that small subset try to collect pieces of them. I'd guess that roughly 99.99% of the world's population do not give a tinker's damn about the birth of the solar system or about asteroids as long as one isn't about to hit them on the head. So by fighting against meteorite collectors, meteorite scientists would be antagonizing the small group of people who care anything whatsoever about what they are doing. They should realize that almost all of the population of the world as a whole and even of the most educated of countries wouldn't notice or care if all meteorite scientists were fired from their jobs tommorrow. So why concider the TINY number of people who do care what they do to be enemies? Received on Fri 14 Jul 2006 11:49:12 AM PDT |
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