On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:52:53 -0500, you wrote: > This kind of report -- the odd rock and the >strange hole in the garden kind of report -- tends >to come, singly or in a small flurry, after a real >event. The seed of the notion is already in place. >Humans "see" what they are prepared to "see." >Likewise, they often don't "see" what they >don't expect to "see." The senses+brain system >is not a simple "camera-like" mechanism.
Wonder how many of those are honest errors, and how many are frauds where people think that claiming that it is a meteorite is enough to generate a buyer even if it is something they pulled out of their terrarium? For someone who doesn't know how testing works, maybe the idea is that funny looking rock + hole = $$$$ ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
