savory! grab some skyrox and enjoy the ride home!
>From: Michael Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: harlan trammell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: india meteorite fall
>Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 09:19:36 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Oh Harlan, how I crave some good old steaks! Of
>course, beef is NOT on the menu here. I must say
>though, that the food is among the best I have ever
>eaten. Iwas terried of this trip for one reason, I
>HATE CURRY! However, it seems that curry is not on the
>menu so much in Orissa, GIANT prawns from the Bay of
>Bengal are however, and I mean huge, the last 3 days I
>have eaten nothing but prawns, the size of Main
>Lobsters, these would cost at least $40 to $50 at
>home, and here I pay about $4 for plate of prawns so
>large that I can't even finish them, and I am a large
>guy who can eat alot of prawns! Gerlic prawns, spicy
>pepper prawnes, black pepper prawns, you name it, I
>have loved every bit of food I have eaten here. But
>beef would sure taste good, and there are so many cows
>around........ hmmmmm, I have a knife and a rock.
>Anyway, I am not the least bit sick, which also shocks
>me since I brought a huge amount of medicine for
>diorhea, seems to be not needed.
>Mike Farmer
>--- harlan trammell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
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>thanx 4 the stories! sounds like you need a good
>airboat and a tommy gun w/ a drum clip! hope you
>find more skyrox- you have definitely paid the price.
>this kow talk makes me wanna go get a steak.
>headed to ruth's chris as a result of your stories
>to get a fix. nice to read your post for those of us
>who will never go. there seems to be lots of
>electronic diarrhea on this list now instead of
>skyrock talk anf your posts breath liife back into
>the list. good luck and thanx again.>From: Michael
>Farmer
>
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> >From: Michael Farmer
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: [meteorite-list] India Meteorite Report from
>the scene
> >Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 22:53:26 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >Hi everyone, internet here is little better than
>smoke
> >signals, it has taken me almost 2 hours to go through
>
> >50 emails, so slow, and Matteo's crying like a 2 year
>
> >old baby. Matteo, shut the hell up, PLEASE, if I see
> >another email about "Other people is make prices
>ruin"
> >I will have to beat the hell out of you when I see
>you
> >(Just kidding, but only a little).
> >OK
> >I am in the strewnfield.
> >I have a small piece of the meteorite. IT is an H
> >chondrite and similar to Zag, veining and
> >slickensides.
> >There is EXTREME flooding here, all parts are under
> >water, there is NO HOPE of recovering more material
> >unless it is simply in a village and not known about
> >yet. the strewnfield is some miles long, traveling
> >between two villages that the local assured me were
> >only 5 km apart by air took over 2 hours by road (if
> >you can call it that). India is beautiful and
>horrible
> >at the same time. The road is covered with untold
> >thousands of people, dogs, cows, goats, etc, NONE of
> >which move or are even slightly annoyed by the
> >incessant use of the horn, we actually ran over a
>dogs
> >foot yesterday, he would not move until the car ran
> >right over him. I felt sorry for it but then again if
>
> >anything is that stupid.....
> >I also wish I had a gun with me, to put some of the
> >stupidist creature on the planet (The cow) out of
> >their misery (or ignorant bliss) whichever it is.
> >There are thousands of them, laying in the roads,
>cars
> >just go around them whereever possible.
> > the entire area is flooded, and I mean bad, hundreds
>
> >of thousands of miles under water, looks like the
> >ocean with small patched of trees and huts standing
> >out of it. Roads are almost not more than small
>trails
> >with everyone and everything blocking them.
> >Most of the meteorite has been taken by the police, I
>
> >am working on tracking down a couple of pieces, but
>it
> >looks hopeless as it takes me 6 hours to get to the
> >area even though it is only 70 miles away, the max
> >spees is about 10 miles an hour on the highway and
> >about 2 miles an hour on the village route.
> >these are small villages, I mean aobut 10 familes
> >each, no electricity, nothing more than some mud huts
>
> >in a land of mud. I had to go on motorcycle for a few
>
> >miles last night with a spectacular lightning show in
>
> >the distance, it was the most eery and beatiful drive
>
> >I have ever taken, the flooded swampland, cool wind,
> >nice people and all made me fell like I was in some
> >sort of 16 th century expedition. When we got to the
> >village, the people showed me where a 6-8 kilo stone
> >fell, coming down right down the slanted roof of a
> >hut, denting in the grass roof and making a large
> >crater at the base of the hut. That stone was taken 2
>
> >days ago, but I have two competing guys traking down
> >the person who took it, to get it for me. We will see
>
> >if this hut smasher comes home with me. I do have a
>13
> >gram fragment of it, (They smashed it). The meteorite
>
> >is like Zag, large veins and slickensides.
> >The 6 hour trip back to town last night was the most
> >harrowing of my life, I would say at least 50 near
> >head on collisions with giant trucks, busses, all
> >without lights, cars on the wrong side of the road,
> >washed out roads, cows of course (and they would much
>
> >rather drive off a cliff and die than kill a cow
> >here!).
> >there should be hundreds of stones, but it is all
> >rivers and swamps and rice paddies, all under several
>
> >feet of water, so virtually none will be recovered.
> >I saw photos of the 5 kilo stone, very nice.
> >Anyway, sorry for the format of this email, but using
>
> >the computer here is not easy.
> > Anyone thinking of coming to get some, forget it, as
>
> >it is, with my 13 gram piece, i will have paid over
> >$400.00 gram for my piece! But I will have memories
>of
> >a lifetime of this hunt, which doing it alone, I
> >already consider by far my most exotic and
> >interesting.
> >the people in the villages do not speak english or
> >Hindi, but Orissi, a local tribal language.
> >the meteorite fell only about 1/2 mile from the Bay
>of
> >Bengal (but now it seems to be in the Bay of bengal
> >with everything under water anyway).
> >
> >I will post more info as soon as I can.
> >Mike Farmer
> >Meteorite Hunter
> >Writing from Orissa India.
> >
> >
> >
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