On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 10:53:24 +0200, you wrote: >And the first time such a meteorite has fallen since 1937. And, it is >the first time that more than two meteorite pieces have been found from >a meteorite fall in norwegian history. This means that there are >hundreds of pieces that will not be found. The meteorite is a holy
This part jumped out at me-- he aknowledges that "hundreds of pieces" will not be found. So which would be better-- to have lots of people with incentives for doing so out searching for those meteorites, giving SOME chance that they will someday find their way to the hands of researchers, or leave them to remain unfound-- but at least they are staying in Norway? At the risk of invoking Godwin's Law, I REALLY start to get creeped out when someone starts to talk about someone being required to turn over something from their private property "for the good of the state" (as the writer in the Norweigan blog seems to be doing). As much as I care about the science, I'd rather see the loss to science than see the loss of personal liberties and property rights. If a meteorite falls on my land, I expect to be able to keep it, donate it to science, sell it to shifty foreigners, or grind it up and make finger paint for chimpanzees with it. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
