Mar 30, 2009: Space Junk
There's been a lot of space junk in the news lately, but that's man made junk.
This space junk is pre-man made junk, in fact it's pre-man. Tom Lynch paid $10 for an 50 lb hunk of metal at a garage sale and used it to keep his grandson's basketball hoop from blowing over. http://cellar.org/2009/meteroite.jpg Quote:
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He plans to drive it out to Flagstaff and return it personally. Think they'll let him in for free? :haha: Link |
Yep, cause he could've diced it up.. They sell for much more in leeetle pieces.
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Even 50lbs of scrap iron is worth a bit .
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" ...call came from Jim DuFoe, a minerals expert he had consulted. Bad news, DuFoe said. The meteorite was stolen in 1968 from the Meteor Crater Visitor Center near Flagstaff."
And just how the hell did he know it was stolen from there at that time? I know how they can figure out where it came from, but how did they know it was 1968? Screw that, sell it. Highest bidda... |
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Does honesty figure anywhere in your world, Merc? Just askin'. :headshake |
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How did they know they had it was my question. Looks like a pretty big place to know were a single bit of a million bits of rock came from. |
There's a small museum/visitor's center there. It was in the museum.
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Oh, sorry.
They have a museum with proper displays -- the meteor wasn't just laying about in the crater! |
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"What's that you say? Meteorite? No, no don't know anything about any meteorite. You must be looking for another Tom Lynch."
Meanwhile, back on eBay..."For sale by eBay user 'notthattomlynch'... |
...and now his poor grandson's basketball hoop will blow over again. Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children???
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paging Monsieur Mangetout, recipe needed in the IOTD section...
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