Charlie, Your last comment reminded me of this book:
Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma Grant Elliott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charlie Devine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Matson, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 11:43 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Roach Dry Lake > Hi Rob, John, Mark and list > > Rob wrote: > > >In a given day at Roach, I probably pick > >up a couple thousand rocks, piling them > >up in this manner. > > I wonder, if in some far distant future, an archaeologist will write a > thesis on "The stone cairns of Roach and other dry lakes of the Far > West: towards a solution". :-) > I was just looking at a copy of Ancient Hunters of the Far West, 1966, > by Malcolm Rogers, a former director of the San Diego Museum of Man. > Many photos of stone cairns and stone enclosures dubbed sleeping circles > in southern California. Apparently these are several thousand years > old. Makes me chuckle to think in a millennium or 2, people may scratch > their heads over all those meteorite hunter rock piles. > > Charlie > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
