[meteorite-list] Speaking of Wisconsin Prices

2010-05-01 Thread Darren Garrison
http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=281422 Meteorite hunters find fragments People look for pieces across southwest Wisconsin. The going rate appears to be about $5 to $10 per gram. BY CRAIG D. REBER TH STAFF WRITER LIVINGSTON, Wis. -- Livingston Village President Tom Brown found a small piec

Re: [meteorite-list] Arizonans Find Largest Meteorite Fragment From Spectacular Midwestern Fall

2010-05-05 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 05 May 2010 09:04:13 -0400, you wrote: >usage of this term. Folks on the list love to coin pet terms, so here >is a proposal: call it the LKM (largest known mass). Also abbrevated as the "LaMass." Example "Dude, did you see that lamass meteorite up on Ebay?" ___

Re: [meteorite-list] How Capt. Kirk Changed the World (Dawn)

2010-05-05 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 5 May 2010 15:58:01 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >How Capt. Kirk Changed the World >NASA Science News I haven't read the article, but I assme that it was with his rendition of "Rocketman"? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN3MGN899yE Although some historians argue that Spock had the greater in

[meteorite-list] Wanna see a quadrillion stars?

2010-05-06 Thread Darren Garrison
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/05/05/a-thousand-trillion-suns/#more-15068 On topic because there are several asteroid streaks in the photo. :-) __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Mete

Re: [meteorite-list] ETs (EXTREME TYPES) Already Here!

2010-05-06 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 6 May 2010 19:04:53 -0500, you wrote: > > >> When humans see alien life they just say ho hum and keep going on about >their day. <-- > >What exactly is this supposed to imply? Sadly, I'm confident that he means this: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/marte/esp_crinoid.htm and s

Re: [meteorite-list] ETs (EXTREME TYPES) Already Here!

2010-05-06 Thread Darren Garrison
I think I may have posted this PDF before, but here's an "old" book chapter about the possible fossils in ALH84001. Look especially at page 15, with the size coparisons between "fossils" and known microorganisms on Earth: http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/tmp/martian_fossils.pdf __

Re: [meteorite-list] OT- color/camera issues

2010-05-07 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 7 May 2010 15:32:51 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >example - this is not what it looks like. Its Greyish and white to natural >light, but this is how it comes out photographed... >http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c165/jedisdiamond/345gb.jpg > >Any help or advise from anyone that knows about th

Re: [meteorite-list] FW: Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - May 8, 2010

2010-05-08 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sat, 8 May 2010 15:03:53 +, you wrote: >I failed to mention that its weight is .1 gram. Iron at .1 gram? Must be tiny. Maybe the "female" end of some type of snap fastener? http://www.denverfabrics.com/pages/sewinginfo/hsc-sewing-hints/sewing-snaps.htm _

[meteorite-list] Out of the icebox and into the freezer

2010-05-08 Thread Darren Garrison
A couple of comet-ish micrometeorites from Antarctica. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2010-05-07-Antarctica-comet_N.htm http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0508/Ancient-meteorites-in-Antarctica-could-reveal-origins-of-Solar-System podcast: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/

Re: [meteorite-list] FW: Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - May 8, 2010

2010-05-08 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sat, 8 May 2010 12:17:38 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >if he says it is a meteorite after having it for >a few years and examining it in person, FWIW, the caption says that it was found in "April, 2010" (didn't say if it was on the 1st) so it falls short of a few years yet. __

Re: [meteorite-list] Has anyone heard of this dealer before??

2010-05-08 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sat, 8 May 2010 20:49:16 -0500, you wrote: >The ebay user name is disturbing. I don't understand how it would be "disturbing." A quick google search shows that to be the name of a character that appeared in an episode of The Honeymooners. __ Visit

[meteorite-list] Another Livingston (or whatever) story

2010-05-08 Thread Darren Garrison
This hasn't been posted yet, has it? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37018709/ns/technology_and_science-space/ __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] New evidence for microbial fossils in Martian meteorite

2010-05-09 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sat, 8 May 2010 22:49:27 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >I watched this program on TV about the presence of life in extreme >environments - living things have been found thriving in places and in >substances never before considered possible, such as in crude oil in Panama >with little to no water o

[meteorite-list] Abu Dhabi meteorite hunt

2010-05-09 Thread Darren Garrison
This is around a month old, but I don't remember seeing it here: http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100419/NATIONAL/704189948/1139 Really fresh looking chondrite in the photo. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/

Re: [meteorite-list] Met List ADHD

2010-05-10 Thread Darren Garrison
On Mon, 10 May 2010 14:36:03 -0700, you wrote: >Funny how off-topic some posts can be, especially when you're "trying" >to gather important data. Not sure if this is about focus, but one >things for sure, it's comical how some list members seem to miss the >point, or ignore it totally just to g

Re: [meteorite-list] FW: re. $ LOL, Can't even pay for a BD cake

2010-05-14 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 14 May 2010 17:07:56 -0700, you wrote: >No one said anything about ripping Twink off, but three months to pay for a BD >cake says a lot about paying bills on time. Especially since Steve is famous for being a millionare. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/04/16/wisconsi

Re: [meteorite-list] AZ fireball

2010-05-19 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 19 May 2010 20:04:30 -0700, you wrote: >I'm sorry I'm in Surprise AZ > Have you concidered moving? __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.co

[meteorite-list] The Eocene-- not a fun time

2010-05-20 Thread Darren Garrison
Looks like possibly another huge crater from around the same time frame as Popigai, Chesapeake Bay, and Tom's Canyon. http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20102105-20980.html __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.h

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: May 17-21, 2010

2010-05-21 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 21 May 2010 11:42:05 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >Would they be excited and accepting?  Or just the reverse? And why, the holy HELL would NASA (meaning, the scientists therin) feel anything other than utter, stunned glee over finding artifacts on Mars? They would scream it from the rooftops.

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: ET?

2010-05-21 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 21 May 2010 16:52:52 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >My book is for sale all over the world.  Yet I have not sold >1 coppy.  Which I find very strange. A self-published book in paperback sold off a personal website at hardback prices by a complete unknown? There is not anything even remotely s

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: ET? -- Not!!

2010-05-21 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 21 May 2010 20:30:59 -0400, you wrote: >would be more understanding if you "see" a house in a jumble of boulders >like someone might "see" a dragon shape in the clouds. But that's not >what you mean is it? The term for that is "pareidolia" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia ___

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: ET?

2010-05-21 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 21 May 2010 17:22:32 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >Can you say BAND BOOK!  It must be band all over the world!  Now who do you >supose could do that?  Yes, I can say "Band Book." But unless your book is about Alyson Hannigan and her creative use of a flute, I don't think "band" means what y

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: ET?

2010-05-21 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sat, 22 May 2010 00:01:06 -0500, you wrote: >read more online or with their kindle or their ipad than a real book. Then >Darren's point is valid that books just don't sell like they used to unless >someone is lying on a beach on vacation or takes one into a restaurant or >coffee shop or on t

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: ET?

2010-05-21 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 21 May 2010 22:16:43 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >Someone thought that 19 bucks was too high for >a fiction book.  They sell for 25 bucks on average.  Hardbacks of industry-published, widely marketed books have MSRPs in the $25 range-- most of which end up being sold for less than the cover

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: ET?

2010-05-22 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sat, 22 May 2010 10:57:14 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >No one even made mention of the pictures.  Actually, people did. In my first mention of the book, I called your analysis of the pictures "profoundly insane nutbaggery." Then Elizabeth Warner pointed out this: http://six.pairlist.net/piperma

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: ET?

2010-05-22 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sat, 22 May 2010 11:56:03 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >There is no doubt that you and a few others here are, and I am sure that you >will have to look it up, AGENTPROVOCATEUR'S! Wow, thanks for the tip! http://www.agentprovocateur.com/ (Bookmarking now.)

[meteorite-list] On another note-- a couple of downloads.

2010-05-22 Thread Darren Garrison
One looks good, one looks bad. http://www.freehdmovie.info/2010/01/moonshot-2009-tv.html http://www.freehdmovie.info/2010/03/annas-storm-2007-tv.html __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mail

Re: [meteorite-list] [OT] Mars Odd Theme

2010-05-22 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sat, 22 May 2010 20:03:10 -0400, you wrote: >Don't forget the "Shiny Squirrels"...or the Lovebugs eating the paint off >your car if you don't wash quickly... >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovebug > I had an encounter with those once while passing through a SC costal town. It was like a plagu

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: ET? - NOT!!

2010-05-22 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sat, 22 May 2010 21:09:24 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >I found it on the new High Res. Pics.  Now this is direct from NASA/JPL.  If >you cant see this then you never will!  I call this the Gray house, Dog and >Half Human.   Check it out! Wait! I.. I... oh, God, I see it! And below it there is

Re: [meteorite-list] Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images: ET? - NOT!!

2010-05-22 Thread Darren Garrison
Wait-- I just realized why that other structure looked so familiar-- it is a trilobite pygidium! From a trilobite of such massive proportions that all of Earth life is as nothing before it! A leviathan that brought terror to all living things 'neith the skys of Mars eons before the first worms tw

Re: [meteorite-list] [OT] Mars Odd Theme, and other various Mars relat ed subjects

2010-05-23 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sun, 23 May 2010 14:46:49 GMT, you wrote: >would quote a line from "Plan 9 from Outer Space" > >"Stupid stupid people..." > That's "stupid minds". http://www.freemontsoffice.com/stupid_minds.php __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecent

[meteorite-list] Dont skip looking at this!

2010-05-24 Thread Darren Garrison
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/05/24/lunar-boulder-hits-a-hole-in-one/ __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pair

[meteorite-list] Damn! I shoulda gone beach combing!

2010-05-24 Thread Darren Garrison
Washed up on a South Carolina beach (I'm in SC) http://www.wmbfnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=12534303 The next trick would have been driving around 250 miles home with that strapped to the roof... __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/m

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Probable launch debris recovered from South Carolina

2010-05-24 Thread Darren Garrison
Video here: http://www2.counton2.com/cbd/news/local/article/space_debris_that_washed_up_on_hilton_head_could_be_european_rocket/140457/ __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteor

Re: [meteorite-list] Don't skip looking at this!

2010-05-24 Thread Darren Garrison
On Tue, 25 May 2010 12:05:11 +1000, you wrote: >Thanks for sharing that Darren. I took a look at the main image. There are >many such 'moving boulders' visible across it with many much longer than the >one mentioned in the blog. Some are even large arcs. Fascinating stuff. > >http://wms.lroc.asu

[meteorite-list] Oh, buoy! Two new meteorwrongs!

2010-05-25 Thread Darren Garrison
http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12541538 http://www.wdtn.com/dpps/military/Navy-plane-drops-buoy-on-Florida-house_3378473 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-lis

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorites are very powerful stones!

2010-07-02 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 14:34:11 -0400, you wrote: >America is supposed to be about tolerance. That is the only point I >was trying to make. "Tolerence" does not mean "treating nutty ideas as respectable just because someone REALLY believes it." The term for that is "political correctness." As the

Re: [meteorite-list] USB 2.0 mp Digital Camera

2010-07-06 Thread Darren Garrison
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 14:46:02 -0700, you wrote: >I've been thinking of getting one of these for a while. Has anybody used this >for taking pics of micros and larger slices of meteorites? Is the cheaper 1.3 >mp a better deal? > I have a 1.3 megapixel version, with only 4 LED lights (paid more than

Re: [meteorite-list] USB 2.0 mp Digital Camera

2010-07-06 Thread Darren Garrison
Here are all the images in a zip. http://www.sendspace.com/file/4hu4w5 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/lis

Re: [meteorite-list] USB 2.0 mp Digital Camera

2010-07-06 Thread Darren Garrison
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 23:05:09 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >Yeah. Darren. Looks like you have a Trojan on those chondrite photos. Then Angelfire has a trojan, and if it is real and not a false positive (no signs of anything here with Firefox and pop-up, flash, and ad blockers) there's nothing I can do a

Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia

2010-07-10 Thread Darren Garrison
The photo: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/asteroid-lutetia-spacecraft-flyby-100710.html __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.

Re: [meteorite-list] Rosetta Flyby of Asteroid 21 Lutetia

2010-07-11 Thread Darren Garrison
Full resolution photos: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEM44DZOFBG_0.html My favorite is the one with Saturn in the background-- you can make out just a hint of the rings. If only there had been more megapixels to throw at the shot. It is a little more clear in negative: http://img3.image

[meteorite-list] More photoshopped moon landing sites

2010-07-14 Thread Darren Garrison
Will those lunar landing believerists stop at nothing with their conspiracy? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/07/14/apollo-16-site-snapped-from-orbit/#more-18636 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-arc

[meteorite-list] A picture of everything

2010-07-16 Thread Darren Garrison
Well, everything that isn't "down." http://www.hpcwire.com/features/Recomputing-the-Sky-98342554.html __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http

[meteorite-list] Putting it all in perspective

2010-07-20 Thread Darren Garrison
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/2585/ __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Last update on my personal situation

2010-12-31 Thread Darren Garrison
I feel obliged to give this last update to my personal issue that I brought up last week, then I'll stop with the off-topic posting. My grandmother passed away tonight at 11:11 PM. __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-arc

Re: [meteorite-list] Tucson - who's attending this year?

2011-01-29 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 12:36:33 -0500, you wrote: >Have a Dos Equis for me. ;) > Isn't that the broadway play where Harry Potter has sex with a horse?!? __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mai

[meteorite-list] We just miss a nice new fall.

2011-02-04 Thread Darren Garrison
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/02/04/breaking-sofa-sized-asteroid-gives-us-a-close-shave/ __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.

Re: [meteorite-list] How to use meteorites if your sick.....

2011-02-13 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:38:35 -0500, you wrote: >Actually I believe that the power of the mind >is a better tool for healing ones illnesses. I'll tell you what-- if by some horrible coincidence we both develop cancer at the same time, I'll take chemo and you "think positively." Then you can wil

Re: [meteorite-list] The Trials and Tribulations in Dealing with Landowners

2011-02-20 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:00:28 -0500, you wrote: >It is my understanding that they are considerably more rare than diamonds yet >are priced well below the cost of an equivalent flawless diamond. http://www.arizona-peridot.com/Peridot_Prices.html __ Vis

Re: [meteorite-list] changed to: Trials and Tribulations We'll Beliving With For a While

2011-02-22 Thread Darren Garrison
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:50:47 -0500, you wrote: >By what I have read and watched, it sounds like the simple remedy of >returning 25% of the material might not be an option. It would depend on how >many of the stones have been dissolved away in the acid baths. The farmer seeme pretty displeased w

[meteorite-list] A chance photo discovery

2011-02-25 Thread Darren Garrison
I was browsing through a PDF of photos of "New Deal" WPA activities, when on page 33 I found "Archeological digs employed WPA labor, including this excavation at the site of the Odessa meteor crater in Ector County, Texas." http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/pdfs/ppDIRwpa.pdf ___

[meteorite-list] Have a meteorite mess that you need to clean up?

2011-02-26 Thread Darren Garrison
Try the meteorite sweeper! http://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Sweepers-54-square-inch-Meteorite-Sweeper/dp/B0012DPKY0/ __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecen

Re: [meteorite-list] OT transpermia vs. God vs. Science

2011-03-03 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 10:38:32 -0500, you wrote: >Okay, So how does the lesson change because it was written by somebody else? >Are the facts wrong? Maybe it was written by Joe Blow? http://www.indianskeptic.com/chain-mail-god-vs-science/ http://www.rationalresponders.com/debunking_an_urban_legen

Re: [meteorite-list] OT transpermia vs. God vs. Science

2011-03-03 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 09:24:34 -0800, you wrote: >SNOPES? What proves that SNOPES is true? > http://xkcd.com/250/ __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentr

Re: [meteorite-list] trans-topica vs. meteorites

2011-03-03 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 09:42:09 -0800, you wrote: >have some ammo for the political debates surrounding climate-change claiming >that man-kind (and woman-kin) are in charge of what happens down here on the >planet...for me, meteorites and now knowing about impacts and potential >mass-extinctions-in

Re: [meteorite-list] trans-topica vs. meteorites

2011-03-03 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 10:36:01 -0800, you wrote: >I wrote "in charge". > Okay then, then the analogy is that we shouldn't worry about taking care of our health because we might be shot some day. Just because there are factors impacting our lives and environment that are outside our control in n

Re: [meteorite-list] CI1 meteorites and cyanobacteria

2011-03-05 Thread Darren Garrison
Here's PP's take on it over at Bad Astronomy. The fact that it is any way connected with wackjob Chandra Wickramasinghe is not a good sign. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/03/05/has-life-been-found-in-a-meteorite/#more-29102 __ Visit

Re: [meteorite-list] CI1 meteorites and cyanobacteria

2011-03-05 Thread Darren Garrison
A press release from the "journal" that published the paper. Does any journal that writes crap like that deserve ANY credibility? http://daviddobbs.posterous.com/journal-of-cosmology-going-out-with-big-bang __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite

Re: [meteorite-list] CI1 meteorites and cyanobacteria

2011-03-06 Thread Darren Garrison
Here's PZ Myers' take on it. http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/03/did_scientists_discover_bacter.php __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.co

Re: [meteorite-list] CI1 meteorites and cyanobacteria

2011-03-08 Thread Darren Garrison
More scholarship from the Journal of Cosmology: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/03/i_am_getting_a_very_poor_impre.php __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@m

Re: [meteorite-list] Welcome Home

2011-03-10 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:58:30 -0800, you wrote: >I think we should give Michael Farmer a chance... Especially concidering that the reason he was kicked off in the first place was for mentioning Steve Arnold's legal troubles on the list. Which, if one will recall, was a topic of conversation by s

Re: [meteorite-list] 8.9 Quake in Japan, 10 meter Tsunami, Hope Dirk and others are ok

2011-03-11 Thread Darren Garrison
Here's a live English news feed on Al Jazeera: http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/ and the NHK: http://wwitv.com/tv_channels/6810.htm __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Me

Re: [meteorite-list] 8.9 Quake in Japan, 10 meter Tsunami, Hope Dirk and others are ok

2011-03-11 Thread Darren Garrison
A long video clip of the tsunami here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12709850 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pa

Re: [meteorite-list] Not to worry. Nukes are good?

2011-03-12 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:15:43 -0600, you wrote: >Fukushima was never designed for a quake like this, >I suspect; almost no nuclear facility is. It was tested for 7.9.: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/12/japan-fukushima-oper.html __ Visit the Archives

Re: [meteorite-list] "Great News" to eBay sellers.

2011-03-16 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:29:19 -1000, you wrote: >Shipping has absolutely NOTHING to do with ebay! >Why should ebay get revenue on their seller's expense? Probably aimed at those who try to game the system by having artificially low BIN prices and artificially high shipping prices so that they c

[meteorite-list] A second-tier cola going meteorite hunting?

2011-03-25 Thread Darren Garrison
See Dr. Pepper's question on Slashdot: http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/03/25/2148252/Ask-Slashdot-What-Gadgets-Would-You-Use-For-Hunting-Meteorites __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list ma

Re: [meteorite-list] NYT story

2011-04-05 Thread Darren Garrison
On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 11:13:55 -0700 (GMT-07:00), you wrote: >Hi all, > >I cannot recall seeing accurate reporting on anything scientific in the Lame >Street Media. Absolutely. http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1623 __ Visit the Archives

Re: [meteorite-list] List of meteorites from Vesta?

2011-04-07 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 19:15:53 -0700, you wrote: >G'Day Richard, Michael and list > >( I'm away from my bookshelf at the moment so can't cite pages >unfortunately. ) > >92-93 a good starting point. Check out page 149 (as numbered in the PDF) or page 137 (as numbered in the book) http://www.sendsp

Re: [meteorite-list] freebies to go

2011-04-08 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 11:15:45 -0400, you wrote: >If you want the truth about why oil is skyrocketing. Google *hedge funds* they >are the problem . It is making hedge fund managers Billionaires. HEDGE funds? So, it is the fault of a bush. I knew it. __

Re: [meteorite-list] OT - OBAMA BIN LADEN DEAD!

2011-05-01 Thread Darren Garrison
Obama gets to wave a birth certificate AND a death certificate in the same week! __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/ma

Re: [meteorite-list] OT - OBAMA BIN LADEN DEAD!

2011-05-01 Thread Darren Garrison
The success of the mission hinged on a tragic mistake in Bin Laden's camp-- when the Americans were approaching, Osama radioed "Mayday, mayday", but his guards thought that he was celebrating International Workers' Day. __ Visit the Archives at http://www

[meteorite-list] Dawn photographs Vesta

2011-05-11 Thread Darren Garrison
Shockingly, Vesta seems to be a cluster of Borg cubes! http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dawn/news/dawn20110511.html __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritec

[meteorite-list] Interesting lunar crater

2011-05-14 Thread Darren Garrison
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/11/a-flower-bloom-on-the-moon/#more-31137 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six

Re: [meteorite-list] Bigfoot and the "Nakhla Dog" - what do they havein common?

2011-05-22 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sun, 22 May 2011 20:56:43 -0400, you wrote: >I didn't post anything to the list the first time, but time to call you out >on this. Keep your anit-religious believes off this forum I'm sure that he didn't _mean_ to offend members of the Church of Bigfoot! http://bigfootbooks.webs.com/bigfoots

[meteorite-list] 5 chances in 8 Sean O'Keefe is dead.

2010-08-10 Thread Darren Garrison
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/10/alaska.plane.crash/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mail

Re: [meteorite-list] Cyanobacteria in meteorites?

2010-08-21 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:25:30 -0700, you wrote: > >I'm curious how many of us "meteorite addicts" are actually believers in >extraterrestrial life, or at the very least are open to the possibility. Anyone who is not "open to the possibility of exterrestrial life"-- meaning anyone who is convinced

Re: [meteorite-list] Cyanobacteria in meteorites?

2010-08-21 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:26:31 -0700, you wrote: >Ok, I'll go with that first part... But why do you doubt fossilized >microbes in carbonaceous meteorites? One, because the "report" so far utterly lacks the extreme degree of scientific rigor needed for such an extreme story and two, because it fl

Re: [meteorite-list] WAS Cyanobacteria in meteorites? NOW: Life in Meteorites

2010-08-21 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:39:48 -0700, you wrote: >;) Patience... Historically there's a process of belief vs proof and >that helps hypothesis and theory to evolves into self evident fact.. At >first people are not receptive and it gets ignored, then they argue >against it, then it becomes plausib

Re: [meteorite-list] WAS Cyanobacteria in meteorites? NOW: Life in Meteorites

2010-08-21 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:15:18 -0700, you wrote: >If one looks hard enough at anything with a skeptical mind ambiguity >will present itself in all it's subjective glory. As does confirmation bias. Are you REALLY suggesting that people shouldn't look at information skeptically and point out flaws

Re: [meteorite-list] New Meteorite Impact Crater Found

2010-08-24 Thread Darren Garrison
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:49:00 +0200 (SAST), you wrote: >have to report it to goverment museum. So good people I'm sorry, I won't >report or give any details about it, unless I will get something in >return, obviously I need money as well. I have contacted the museum but >they told me that it belong

[meteorite-list] Bad Universe S01E01: Asteroid Apocalypse

2010-08-30 Thread Darren Garrison
SD: Part 1: http://hotfile.com/dl/65696771/3e2e077/Bad.Universe.S01E01.Asteroid.Apocalypse.HDTV.XviD-MOMENTUM.part1.rar.html OR http://www.fileserve.com/file/2Zcsjf4 Part 2: http://hotfile.com/dl/65696772/eddf083/Bad.Universe.S01E01.Asteroid.Apocalypse.HDTV.XviD-MOMENTUM.part2.rar.html OR http

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Men on OC Choppers

2010-09-02 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 22:48:07 -0400, you wrote: >One bike, two meteorite men. Who gets to keep it? Do they get joint >custody with alternating weekends? ;) Obvously, Arnold rides up front, Notkin rides behind. Hold on tight, Geoff! __ Visit the Archiv

Re: [meteorite-list] Witnessed fall lunars?

2010-09-07 Thread Darren Garrison
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:06:15 -0500, you wrote: >Another issue (probably more important) is that lunar escape velocity >is only 2.4 km/s and very little material ejected from the Moon is >going much faster than that. This velocity compares with 20-40 km/s >for asteroidal meteorites. Is a rock

Re: [meteorite-list] Asteroids Are Back In Vogue

2010-09-09 Thread Darren Garrison
>Asteroids are back in vogue ?? http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/6861/asteroidsinvogue.jpg ?? __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six

[meteorite-list] Well, he always did have a rapier wit...

2010-09-20 Thread Darren Garrison
http://www.news.com.au/technology/terry-pratchett-creates-a-sword-with-meteorites/story-e6frfro0-1225926584339 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.

Re: [meteorite-list] Habital Planet Discovery Announcement

2010-09-30 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:27:42 -0500, you wrote: > Because it would have 3 times the water but only two >times the surface, the average ocean depth would be about >4500 meters! The pressure at the depths of these oceans >would be about 9000 atmospheres. The highest mountains >possible would be abo

[meteorite-list] An 18th century depiction of a meteor

2010-10-05 Thread Darren Garrison
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/houghton/2010/09/24/look-up-in-the-sky/ __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listin

Re: [meteorite-list] '100 percent' chance for life on newly foundplanet?

2010-10-06 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 11:12:08 -0600, you wrote: >Although an exploration mission certainly is not going to happen anytime in >the next few decades or longer, it wouldn't require an unrealistic advance >in propulsion technology to get a small spacecraft that distance in a fairly >reasonable time-

Re: [meteorite-list] '100 percent' chance for life on newly foundplanet?

2010-10-06 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 15:37:43 -0500, you wrote: >On the other hand, we might be able to make a 100-year >probe by the end of the century. Just playing around with that time-frame. To get a probe there in 100-years (with a probe that accelerates to the mid-point, flips over, then decelerates to th

Re: [meteorite-list] '100 percent' chance for life on newlyfoundplanet?

2010-10-06 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 17:11:15 -0500, you wrote: >Maybe we won't hear from them until they find >out their favorite show was cancelled? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Aliens_Attack __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-a

Re: [meteorite-list] Norways TV-astronomer KJR Ødega ard helps decovers Norways 2nd largest meteorite!?

2010-10-10 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 13:02:38 -0700, you wrote: >I see no reason why feats of strength should not be added to the Birthday >Bash. Wouldn't that dilute the meaning of Festivus? __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archiv

Re: [meteorite-list] Try divining rods over a large iron

2010-10-13 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:14:52 -0600, you wrote: >If someone out there with a baseball size or larger iron wouldn't mind >performing a little test with it I would appreciate hearing back from >them on how it turned out. To test what I had in mind you will need >to make a couple metal divining

Re: [meteorite-list] Try divining rods over a large iron

2010-10-13 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:54:10 -0700, you wrote: >I couldn't resist on this one. With all due respect,some of the >members of the list need to visit www.randi.org Randi himself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMtuWymUzz4 The ideomotor effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideomotor_effect

Re: [meteorite-list] Try divining rods over a large iron

2010-10-13 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:10:51 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >The closest thing I've seen was broadcast on TV over a decade ago, which I >think originally aired in Australia. It was a supposed double-blind experiment >run by none other than Randy himself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VAasVXtCOI >I

Re: [meteorite-list] Try divining rods over a large iron

2010-10-13 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:38:52 -0400, you wrote: >I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as a type of >superstition. According to my conviction this is, however, unjustified. The >dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the reaction of the human >nervous system to certain f

Re: [meteorite-list] Stop Naysaying! (Was: Try divining rods over a large iron)

2010-10-14 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:14:05 -0700, you wrote: >So, I made myself a pair from wire clothes hanger, >following Warren's instructions and went out to my >side yard. My front and back yard are compeltely cemented >over. I made it out about 3 feet and the rods crossed over. >WTH!! I doubled back

Re: [meteorite-list] Clay meteorites?

2010-10-15 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:01:27 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >Do we have to keep an open mind to the possibility of finding a "clay >meteorite"? Yep. http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&biw=800&bih=490&q=%22carbonaceous+chondrites%22+clay&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Re: [meteorite-list] Stop Naysaying! (Was: Try divining rods over a large iron)

2010-10-15 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:06:53 -0500, you wrote: >Are you aware that your name ("sans souci") >means "no worries" or "carefree," cheerful and >unbothered by the trivia of life, one who lives >in a buoyant and untroubled manner? So-- his name is essentially "Warren Peace"? __

Re: [meteorite-list] You Naysaying Denialists Are All Wrong, Dowsing Works!

2010-10-16 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 03:17:27 -0400, you wrote: >dowser(s) >enter the realm >of simple, >dogmatic drivel and >idiots. Yep. >this to work. They must be held loosely so they can move freely of their own >accord. If you grip them too tightly, the experiment won't work. Yes, the reason the rod

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >