[meteorite-list] Meteorites and Moroccans and the List

From: Erik Fisler <erikfwebb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 22:03:20 -0700
Message-ID: <COL119-W352F87594716464E45258BA4580_at_phx.gbl>

Martin, so many good points in the last few posts you've made along with
many others contributing good points.
Ultimately karma will fix those who bring it upon themselves.
 
"This "hobby" is all about the money and nothing else for many people."
- I have heard several times from prestigious hunters when I talk about Franconia say,
" It's not worth it to go to Franconia unless you find something over a Kilo anymore."
 
Obviously those people don't enjoy the sport of metal detecting.
Although, Franconia and Gold Basin are places that have had so much
detecting pressure that it forces one to learn his machine by heart.
I'm glad some people opt out of hunting there because it leaves more for the
new guys that need to pop their cherry.
Plus, I know that I need to get a meteorite fix if I've been unsuccessfully cold hunting for
to long....
There's nothing that compares to hearing an H Chondrite break your threshold!!!
 [Erik]

> From: altmann at meteorite-martin.de
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 22:59:39 +0200
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites and Moroccans and the List
>
>>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
>
>
>
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