From: Pekka Savolainen <nuu...@dlc.fi>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mike Farmer Eats Moon & Mars Rocks!
To: "Leigh Anne DelRay" <leighannedel...@gmail.com>
Cc: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009, 4:25 PM
Think, the "Moon-drink" could be a great
business-idea.
Have seen cocktails with gold priced very high, but think,
what you could ask for a few mg:s of Moon in a
drink in
a right place... :-P
take care,
pekka s
Leigh Anne DelRay kirjoitti:
Why do you have to ruin all of my fun?
O.k. Greg for the record did not let me 'actually'
lick the NWA 482,
yet only appear as I was licking it.
But I shall take you up on the moon dust drink, I
would prefer it with
some Grey Goose and Sprite though.
:>)
~ Leigh Anne
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Greg Hupe<gmh...@htn.net>
wrote:
Hi Leigh Anne and All,
Just to clear up any misconceptions about Leigh
Anne 'licking' my moon
[rock], she didn't actually lick the stone, just
pretended to do so at the
ASU Apollo 40th Anniversary Celebration of the
first lunar landing. Sorry
Leigh Anne, couldn't let you do that to the NWA
482 Main Mass! :-/ I am
glad you wore the rubber gloves for safe rock
handling! ;-)
Leigh Anne, I do have some lunar cutting dust from
many different lunar
meteorites that you can add to a Rum & Coke if
you like. It fizzes when you
add the dust, but it is a little gritty towards
the end of the drink!
Best regards,
Greg
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Leigh Anne
DelRay"
<leighannedel...@gmail.com>
To: "JoshuaTreeMuseum" <joshuatreemus...@embarqmail.com>;
<Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mike Farmer Eats
Moon & Mars Rocks!
Leigh Anne DelRay Snorts Mars Rocks!!!!!
The latest trend:
http://www.callistodesigns.com/ebay/snortingmars.jpg
Yes that was a real Mars rock, thanks to Mexico
Doug!
Oh Yes! And I too, have tasted (although not
eaten) a moon Rock
http://www.callistodesigns.com/ebay/licking-the-moon.jpg
And yes that was a real Moon rock, thanks to Greg
Hupe'.
Just a little something to be silly,
Leigh Anne
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:14 AM,
JoshuaTreeMuseum<joshuatreemus...@embarqmail.com>
wrote:
http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/michael-farmer-meteorite-broker-1278.php
I too often chow down on these tasty morsels.
Just this morning I had a
bowl of crunchy anorthosite cereal, though I
hate the way the plagioclase
feldspar sticks between your teeth!
Phil Whitmer
Meet Michael Farmer, aka Meteorite Guy
In the exclusive world of meteorite brokers,
his rise has been, well ...
By Jay MacDonald
Twelve years ago, a stock boy at Target
purchased a chunk of space debris
at
the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show that changed
his life forever.
He has not only held pieces of the moon and
Mars in his hands -- he has
tasted them.
"I've eaten a piece of every moon rock and
Mars rock that I have purchased
or found, just to say I did it," he chuckles.
"We are all made of space
rock."
Welcome to the out-of-this-world life of
Michael Farmer, aka Meteorite
Guy,
one of only about 20 professional meteorite
brokers -- on this planet
anyway.
Building a rock-solid empire
Farmer was a 25-year-old college student
attending the University of
Arizona
on the G.I. Bill, stocking shelves part time
and vaguely drifting toward a
career with the CIA when he happened to wander
into the largest gem and
mineral show on earth.
"I bought a rock (meteorite) for $70 and got
so fascinated with it that it
changed the course of my life," Farmer
recalls. "When I saw it, I thought,
'Wow, I'm holding a piece of outer space!'"
Anxious to find more, he scoured the gem show
site until he met an
old-timer
who had a box of 40 meteorites hidden under
the table. His asking price:
$4,000 for the box.
"I had no money at the time, so I had to beg
and borrow to buy the box,"
Farmer recalls. "When I started researching
the meteorites, I found that
that they were from a very rare collection,
and I quadrupled my money on
those stones in about 48 hours. That's when I
realized you could actually
make money doing this."
Within a year, Farmer had earned enough to
make the first of dozens of
trips
to Africa, initially focusing on the Sahara
Desert.
Why the desert? Prepare to be mentally
humbled.
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