[meteorite-list] Murchison Price Difference

From: MexicoDoug <MexicoDoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Oct 5 20:15:08 2006
Message-ID: <003901c6e8dc$3680d5e0$f2068cc9_at_0019110394>

Hi Matthias!

Yes to all you say, I can see you're not a big fan of mitosis and meiowsis,
including cut loss and rusting, I'll only whisper {Bessey specks}...

Oh, here'd be my exception:

Please don't forget that every decade a few good witnessed falls in fact are
responsible for the birth of the finest collectable meteorites! As a matter
of fact they are getting (recovered) more common every year as people put up
parking lots, streets and industrial complexes everywhere!

Now on to see Rob's Comet tonight (to use my finder chart posted just turn
it upside down for the evening vs. morning), though there will be a bright
Moon adding to the difficulties tonight, hopefully now is the time!

And finally, A wonderful Happy Birthday to Monze! That great fall of 1950
born on this special day in history!

Mitotically yours,
Doug

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthias B?rmann" <majbaermann_at_web.de>
To: "MexicoDoug" <MexicoDoug_at_aim.com>; <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Murchison Price Difference


> Hello Doug , -
>
>
> You wrote: "Meteorites are a recyclable resource ... you can cultivate and
> prune and they do multiply..."
>
> That's a nice concept indeed. With my inner eyes I can see a pretty garden
> with meteorite-beds. In springtime you only have to put the little
> micromounts in the earth, give them a few dips for developing regmaglypts,
> yes, do some pruning work (for orientation) and, not to forget: they need
a
> good amount of water each day, early in the morning and in the late
> afternoon. Especially the irons. The result?
>
>
> You also wrote: "Meteorites don't die"
>
> I'm sure: they will be as dead as mutton in a few weeks, at least months.
>
> With other words: it may not be a main aspect, but we must not neglect the
> loss of meteoritical material through rust (not only the irons), erosion,
> wrong treatment etc. Each slice one cuts, each process of abrading,
> (re-)polishing,(re-)etching etc. means to loose material. Not so much in
> the single case. But in addition? Anyway, we have to book it under
"debit".
>
> By the way: "Cultivating the meteorite-garden" would be a perfect subject
> for comic-artist Mark Bostick (I remember with pleasure his "Hunting
> Meteorites in a Perfect World" :-) ...
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Matthias
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MexicoDoug" <MexicoDoug_at_aim.com>
> To: "Martin Altmann" <altmann_at_meteorite-martin.de>;
> <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 7:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Murchison Price Difference
>
>
> Martin wrote:
> "...Doug, tulips you can grow and multiply.(snip)...Meteorites you can't
> cultivate - and where in future shall such amounts of meteorites grow
again,
> when Sahara and Oman will be over?"
>
> Hello again, Martin (and also Matthias:)),
>
> Well, maybe under the sea? There's still an untapped 70-75% of the world.
> Then there is strewn field some collectors have between their meteorite
> showcases and their mailboxes. Not to mention that storehouse of all my
> unmatched socks and the meteorites lost by postal services worldwide.
Maybe
> we won't be so lucky there., but:
>
> Meteorites are a recyclable resource ... you can cultivate and prune and
> they do multiply... Meteorites don't die, at worst they just whittle
away...
>
> Collectors, they do die, and their meteorites are the seed and bulbs of
new
> generations...They are the new strewn fields of the future...along with
tons
> of meteorites hoarded in garbage cans in the garages of speculative
hunters
> ...
>
> Today meteorites are a link to Solar system. Tomorrow Richard Branson
will
> have expeditions to see the orchestrated performances of meteoroid
streams,
> where you can dip a special ladle into the flow and catch a flying star
and
> put it in your pocket and save it for a stormy day. In 20 years a Moon
> Colony will be established...The Japanese will jump start Asteroid mining
> activities...Asteroid Slag will become a collectable, and the miners on
the
> asteroids will give you a ton of material for an attempted sniff or gaze
> upon a tulip.
>
> There is no choice. All resources are limited on earth. The only outlet
is
> out there. Over the long haul all of us are only renting meteorites
anyway
> .... We will run out of land to buy before we run out of meteorites to
> exchange. And then you will want a plot of land for your family, not a
> pound of space rubble.
>
> Just a few thoughts on the future from our snapshot in time.
> And before ideologies change and we catch up to it...
>
> Best wishes, Doug
>
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Received on Thu 05 Oct 2006 08:13:09 PM PDT