[meteorite-list] Namibia: So Much Potential But Not Enough Funds (Hoba Meteorite)

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:28:12 -0600
Message-ID: <003101c73b47$8f7c8e10$3427e146_at_ATARIENGINE>

Hi, Dave, List,

    Somebody's doing some good PR for Namibia.
Take the name "Namibia." If you look at the nice
Wikipedia article on Namibia, the facts are all there:
one of the lowest population densities in the world,
one of the most rain-deprived countries in the world
(like none), one of the least blessed by economic
resources, a sad history, and so forth. But nowhere
in the article will you find the name that "Namibia"
went by for centuries: THE SKELETON COAST.

    Getting people to stop calling you "The Skeleton
Coast" is a good job of PR. There's just something
about the name "The Skeleton Coast" that puts people
off, don't you think?


Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Freeman mjwy" <dfreeman at fascination.com>
To: "Ron Baalke" <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Namibia: So Much Potential But Not Enough
Funds (Hoba Meteorite)


Sounds like a great tourist destination, a big rock, alcoholics and drug
addicts, crime, town in debt up to their ears, danger of electricity amd
water being turned off, high unemployment, and a large military presence.
Well pack my bags!
Poorly thought out release by Mr. Kangueehi, maybe the spoof and phish
people will move to Namibia for the new center of commerce.
Dave F.
Received on Thu 18 Jan 2007 04:28:12 PM PST