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

From: Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:30:25 -0500
Message-ID: <00d501c73b61$03ad8b40$6402a8c0_at_Dell>

Just a little.
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Namibia: So Much Potential But Not Enough
Funds (Hoba Meteorite)


> 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
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> ----- 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.
>
>
>
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