Lack of interest in finding criminals and corruption is kind of the norm in our bizarro world.
Posted on 09/30/2021 6:43:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A missing Moon rock originally gifted to the state of Louisiana by then-President Richard Nixon has been returned after a man in Florida found it sitting in an old box in his home. The man told CollectSPACE that he must have bought the rock, which vanished without a trace years ago, at some garage sale within the last 15 or so years — and that he never realized that he had bought such a priceless artifact.
The vast majority of the lunar samples brought back during the Apollo missions remain sealed away by NASA. However, most of the nearly 200 samples that Nixon gifted to the 50 US states, the country’s territories, and foreign governments have gone missing. A small percentage have been reported stolen, according to CollectSPACE. But the vast majority, like the Apollo 17 sample that the Florida man hand-delivered to the Louisiana State Museum, vanished without any clear explanation.
Louisiana State Museum interim director Steven Maklansky told CollectSPACE that the museum has no plans to launch an investigation into the rock’s bizarre journey from the state’s custody, to a garage sale, to a Florida man’s gun part storage, and back again, so we may never know how it got lost in the first place or who, presumably, had sticky fingers and decided to take it for themselves.
“As you can appreciate, I’m just happy that it is here now,”
(Excerpt) Read more at futurism.com ...
Yay
Back with soulless government
“The vast majority of the lunar samples brought back during the Apollo missions remain sealed away by NASA.”
What are they hiding?
“most of the nearly 200 samples that Nixon gifted to the 50 US states, the country’s territories, and foreign governments have gone missing.”
Moonbats took them?
Florida Man sure gets around.
Over the past week, I’ve seen a lot about Florida on YouTube.
I’d probably like it there.
Souvenir hunters
Isn’t there a 3rd party market where he could have sold this to collectors? Why would anyone “turn in” a piece of God’s creation to the woke leftists at NASA?
Went back to a museum in Louisiana, bit regardless, rightful ownership is rightful.
Wouldn’t most Moon Rocks make good white paint?
Most expensive rocks on Earth.
Uh, Who owns the Moon?
The UN?
yes
And reading the article most government agencies given those rocks, lost them.
Giving it back is ridiculous.
Oh...oooookaaaayyyy...what if you are Standing on the Moon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eze74encNRE
It would be very easy to display a rock and say it was ‘from the Moon’. Most people aren’t going to test it chemically or do radiometric dating tests.
Sometimes, a rock is just a rock.
NICE!
Thanks....
The pic on the top looks like one of the glass pieces. This is one of the primary pieces the Apollo mission was looking for. It proves the a micro-nova from our sun or a massive solar flare. They where theorizing this in the 60’s. IE: Heinrich event
An individual cannot legally own a moon rock. Supposedly the feds will go to the ends of the Earth to recover one that is not in its appropriate location.
It’s that way with any “forbidden” substance. Pick up an eagle feather and you might as well be caught with a WMD.
People have had their antique musical instruments destroyed because the feds found out they were made with ivory or some species of exotic wood the EPA decided to outlaw.
Lack of interest in finding criminals and corruption is kind of the norm in our bizarro world.
“What if you’re Walking on the Moon...”
(_|_) <—————moon shot
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