Re: [meteorite-list] Book: The Rock from Mars: by Kathy Sawyer

2011-06-14 Thread Darren Garrison
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:37:35 -0700, you wrote: Has anyone read the book, The Rock from Mars? Is it worth buying? I haven't read it, but it has been on my wish list at Amazon for a long time, and every time I've noticed it, there have been hardback copies for 1 cent. I'd say give it a try,

Re: [meteorite-list] Dawn Captures Video of Asteroid Vesta Approach

2011-06-13 Thread Darren Garrison
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:52:23 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: http://www.nasa.gov/dawn Oh, my god, it is a giant skull! __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list

Re: [meteorite-list] Dawn Captures Video of Asteroid Vesta Approach

2011-06-13 Thread Darren Garrison
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 18:30:39 -0500, you wrote: It's possible Dawn might go on to Pallas if enough fuel remains, but I'm guessing Ceres will be more than enough interesting that we won't want to leave. Or Dawn could prove to have the Mars Rover Spirit! Personally, I believe that if Dawn does

Re: [meteorite-list] Illinois, Indiana, Ohio glacial deposits

2011-06-12 Thread Darren Garrison
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:56:17 +0100, you wrote: You and that guy from Alberta Canada should collaborate on a video for moraine searching The guy from Alberta should handle all of the on-screen text __ Visit the Archives at

[meteorite-list] A new study on Tagish Lake

2011-06-09 Thread Darren Garrison
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-meteorite-clues-chemistry-early-earth.html __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

[meteorite-list] A fascinating story about a meteorite landing on a small Pacific island

2011-06-04 Thread Darren Garrison
A large meteorite lands on the island and a local professor and two sailors must deal with the dangers involved. You can download the documentary here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/67ej38 __ Visit the Archives at

Re: [meteorite-list] ALERT--JERRY ARMSTRONG PAINTING MISSING

2011-05-27 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 27 May 2011 14:36:05 -0400, you wrote: Around October 2009 Jerry Armstrong agreed to paint the nebula NGC 6302 for me. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/apo090910.html It is worse than you think-- the web page is missing, too! Postal Inspectors are looking into this and the FBI is sitting on

[meteorite-list] Condrule photos

2011-05-26 Thread Darren Garrison
I've just uploaded some chondrule photos I made back in 2007 with a cheap USB microscope to facebook, for anyone interested in seeing them. The photos aren't as good as you'd get from a pro scope, but are still pretty good-- and there are some very nice chondrules in there.

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA To Launch New Science Mission To Asteroid In 2016

2011-05-25 Thread Darren Garrison
Interesting interpretation of the acronym in the video-- _O_rigins _S_pectral _I_nterpretation _R_esource _I_dentification _S_ecurity _RE_golith _E_xplorer or OSIRISREE. Shouldn't that be _O_rigins _S_pectral _I_nterpretation _R_esource _I_dentification _S_ecurity _R_egolith _EX_plorer ?

[meteorite-list] Nice space junk

2011-05-24 Thread Darren Garrison
Anyone looking for a fusion-crusted Vostok bolt? http://historical.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=6052LotIdNo=56026#Photo __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list

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!

[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

[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

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

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

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] 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)

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=comicsid=1623 __ Visit the Archives at

[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

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

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] 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

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

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

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

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

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 __

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

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/

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

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

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 no

[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] 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

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

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 __

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 will

[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

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

[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

Re: [meteorite-list] Need to sell some meteorites

2010-12-26 Thread Darren Garrison
I want to thank everyone who has had interest in buying the meteorites and has had concern for my grandmother. Since I vented on the list, I thought I'd give a little update. (Stick around for the end.) Friday night, the 24th, when I had to take her to the hospital, she had suddenly had a major

[meteorite-list] Need to sell some meteorites

2010-12-25 Thread Darren Garrison
The need has come for me to try to sell some of my meteorites quickly. Most of you don't know this about me, but for several years since my mother died, I've been the live-in 24 hour caregiver for my elderly (recently turned 90) grandmother-- I've obvously not been working outside the home for

[meteorite-list] National Geographic. Naked Science - Alien Fireballs

2010-12-08 Thread Darren Garrison
Download links: http://avaxhome.ws/video/series/National_Geographic_Naked_Science_Alien_Fireballs_HDTV_720p.html __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA Finds New Life Form

2010-12-02 Thread Darren Garrison
On Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:03:00 -0800 (PST), you wrote: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/nasa-finds-new-life/ Jesus, is Jesus there heavy on the hyperbole! Here's an article written by someone who ISN'T a complete idiot.

[meteorite-list] Astrobiology Discovery in black and white

2010-11-29 Thread Darren Garrison
I think it'll be something about the space cookies. http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=fpz=1cf=allned=ushl=enq=astrobiology+oreos __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Men make Boing Boing

2010-11-18 Thread Darren Garrison
Don't worry, make Boing Boing isn't a euphamism for a post about their sex lives. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/18/meteorite-men-interv.html __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing

Re: [meteorite-list] Particles brought back by Hayabusa identified as from Itokawa

2010-11-16 Thread Darren Garrison
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:43:30 +0900, you wrote: like LL5--6? I was just about to post the same link-- the world's most expensive ordinary chondrite! __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list

[meteorite-list] Canadians steal crystaline meteorite aliens

2010-10-21 Thread Darren Garrison
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2010/10/21/yukon-space-rock-sabo.html?ref=rss#socialcomments __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Unconscious Ideomotor Response Test

2010-10-20 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:31:56 -0400, you wrote: Here are two examples of the unconscious ideomotor response in action. The female subject had never heard of dowsing, yet by pure coincidence her ideomotor responded the same as mine. In the first video, the woman tilts her left hand slightly

Re: [meteorite-list] Rare Earth Magnets Might Get Rarer!

2010-10-20 Thread Darren Garrison
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:23:39 -0700, you wrote: Someone, quick, start a rare earth mineral mining company! And the richest seams to mine? Landfills. On a similar note-- http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0806/ref.shtml http://www.science20.com/news_releases/next_on_the_endangered_list_helium

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Dowsing is real, but exoplanets are dubious?!

2010-10-18 Thread Darren Garrison
Fresh off the keyboard today: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/10/18/gallery-of-exoplanets-real-pictures-of-alien-worlds/ __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list

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

2010-10-17 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 01:29:37 -0400, you wrote: cancelled the effect. Direct contact with the galvanic skin response or electrodermal conductance response, whatever you want to call it is essential for it to work. Before dowsing was done with bent pieces of metal, it was done with wooden

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

2010-10-17 Thread Darren Garrison
Here are kits you can use to find meteorites-- looks like they can be tuned to any mineral! http://simmonsscientificproducts.com/products.html (I guess these are the fake dowsing rods, though-- not the real ones that operate via handwavium.) __ Visit

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

2010-10-17 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 03:02:17 -0400, you wrote: Eric, That's ok. This is all just good fun, it's nothing personal. When you're arguing from a position of ignorance and basically don't know what you're talking about, you have to resort to ridicule. When you have no factual information to back up

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

2010-10-17 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 03:09:09 -0400, you wrote: Darren, How is posting some flakey links and making lame jokes an intelligent argument? Is that really the best you got? You do know what a debate is right? You're acting like a 12 year old. (not that there's anything wrong with that.) I mean come

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Einstein on dowsing

2010-10-17 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:28:13 -0700, you wrote: When people say they believe in dowsing, what they are really saying is that they believe in a human sixth sense -- for instance, the ability to detect minute fluctuations in electromagnetic fields. An interesting side note is that recent studies

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Dowsing is real, but exoplanets are dubious?!

2010-10-17 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:18:14 -0700, you wrote: would be personal unfamiliarity with the rather bullet-proof science. That would not suprise me in the slightest after reading this: I don't pretend to understand how this phenomenon works, any more than I understand how the dynamo at the Earth's

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Dowsing is real, but exoplanets are dubious?!

2010-10-17 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:07:25 -0400, you wrote: I'm going to need to see a visible light photograph of an exoplanet to confirm their existence. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101015105935.htm

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

2010-10-17 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. I think I may have stumbled on the video you are

Re: [meteorite-list] OT: Dowsing is real, but exoplanets are dubious?!

2010-10-17 Thread Darren Garrison
Rich, you could really save yourself some typing time by just using this site: http://randomtextgenerator.com/ (Unless--that is-- you already are.) On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:28:06 -0600, you wrote: Just as the active software on a laptop limits powerfully the possible offerings of the global

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 rods must

Re: [meteorite-list] dowsing for meteorites--had to try it

2010-10-16 Thread Darren Garrison
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 11:44:06 +0100 (BST), you wrote: I've watched this thread with some bemusement I must admit.Having never tried this dowsing lark I automatically dismissed it as bunkum.But I have just conducted an admittedly short and not very scientifically sound experiment also with large

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=100hl=ensafe=offbiw=800bih=490q=%22carbonaceous+chondrites%22+clayaq=faqi=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] 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 and

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'm

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

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

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- say

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 the

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

[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

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 about

[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

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

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] 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

[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

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 to

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 that

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 flies

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 plausible,

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

[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=T1iref=BN1 __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com

[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] 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

[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

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:

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

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

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

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 saying

[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-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

[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

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

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.

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