[meteorite-list] Moon Dust

From: Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:26:41 -0400
Message-ID: <BANLkTikXKHKxEJ=vvWRSQaxXj3L4z5apeg_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi List,

The WP article's comment thread is now overrun by racists with a
political axe to grind and a bunch of lunar-landing conspiracy nuts.

Between the racism and the ignorance, it will be impossible to post a
comment that corrects any misconceptions printed in the article. I
posted a comment about the legality of lunar meteorite material and it
was buried under an avalanche of hillbilly racism and moon-landing
nutjobbery.

I cannot help but cringe for our nation when we represent ourselves in
such a fashion.

Best regards,

MikeG

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On 6/24/11, Yinan Wang <veomega at gmail.com> wrote:
> Before people start going off on the WP and shaking their angry fists,
> notice that it's an AP article.
>
> Essentially someone at the Associated Press writes it, various papers
> subscribe to it and just pull material and publish it as filler.
>
> Yes, the WP should probably fact check the articles they pull, but
> like most major newspapers, they don't have the time. It's a minor
> human interest story that probably made page 12 of section B of the
> newspaper or something.
>
> -Yinan
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:53 PM, JoshuaTreeMuseum
> <joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I thought the dust on the tape was the only legal to own and sell NASA
>> lunar material.
>>
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/missing-moon-dust-found-in-st-louis-auction-business-returned-to-nasas-johnson-space-center/2011/06/23/AGhR1zhH_story.html
>>
>>
>> Phil Whitmer
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Received on Fri 24 Jun 2011 09:26:41 AM PDT