[meteorite-list] Meteorites and Moroccans and the List

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 22:59:39 +0200
Message-ID: <000401c9d8c4$ba06b080$177f2a59_at_name86d88d87e2>

>This "hobby" is all about the money and nothing else for many people.

Would be a pity, if so.

But I don't think so.

Why?
Cause if it would be about the money only, that occupation would be simply
to boring for most, who collect or handle meteorites.

(and those, for which monetary aspects mean an entertaining spare-time
activity, I guess they'd know a hundred other occupations, to satisfy their
needs in an easier way).

I don't know. I got my first meteorite 27 or 28 years ago,
nevertheless almost daily I learn something new about meteorites, in reading
the list mails, from experts of different fields or from people, who have by
far a greater knowledge than me.
And I enjoy the pictures of new meteorites, which I don't know yet, and from
old ones, whereof I hadn't seen rarely a picture.
I accept the invitation of the hunters, which let me join them in the field
through their trip reports, photos, videos.
I like the always freshest news from planetary spaceflight,
read about the shows, I couldn't join, about the experiences of collectors
going into schools or equipping exhibitions.
I try to follow the disputes about different theories from all fields
touching meteorites, I hear about private up and downs of the fellow
aficionados, when they share it here...
I read about preparation techniques, ways to display and document
collections, and all what belongs to collecting,
I wonder, what for long forgotten facts about historic meteorites the
members dig out..
And, and, and...

I know many collectors, of several the motivation for being in meteorites,
their preferences and what all they're doing in that wide and endlessly
multifaceted field - but that they should report, if they feel a need for,
but you, you could read the archives

and then you'll understand, that I still do not share your opinion.


But one thing worries me a little bit, maybe I err, cause I'm just back from
a recreation phase...but it seems to me, that a rough and aggressive tone
has befallen the list (at least to a major extend as in former years).

NWA-dealers versus Moroccan dealers and vice versa, Moroccans versus
Moroccans, classical hunters versus classical hunters, dealers versus
dealers, new offerors versus old ones, non-IMCA-people versus
IMCA-supporters, non-advertizers versus spammers, collectors versus dealers,

alleged victims versus alleged profiteers and so on ... and generally always
the worst assumption are expressed....

1) Is that all really so interesting, that so much bandwidth has to be used
for that or is it really the right place here to dump such things here?

2) When will we ever learn...lalala...that with meteorites we're all in the
same small boat and that it is not conducive to chop holes in the hull.

Well, as said, maybe I err,
I'd wish only that some would sometimes sleep on their answers before they
type their posts...

...which I should have done with this post too...

Good Night, a night full of shooting stars!
Martin

     

-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Greg
Catterton
Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. Mai 2009 21:11
An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites and Moroccans
Received on Tue 19 May 2009 04:59:39 PM PDT