Posted on 11/26/2022 5:59:17 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
In 2015, David Hole was prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia.
Armed with a metal detector, he discovered something out of the ordinary – a very heavy, reddish rock resting in some yellow clay.
He took it home and tried everything to open it, sure that there was a gold nugget inside the rock – after all, Maryborough is in the Goldfields region, where the Australian gold rush peaked in the 19th century.
To break open his find, Hole tried a rock saw, an angle grinder, a drill, even dousing the thing in acid. However, not even a sledgehammer could make a crack. That's because what he was trying so hard to open was no gold nugget.
As he found out years later, it was a rare meteorite.
"I've looked at a lot of rocks that people think are meteorites," Henry told Channel 10 News.
In fact, after 37 years of working at the museum and examining thousands of rocks, Henry said only two of the offerings had ever turned out to be real meteorites.
This was one of the two.
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It's cool though.
One of your sisters wanted it, maybe?
Good one! I like that version the best because of the favorable treatment of religion.
There’s a lesson in there.
...and the diamond saw that cut a big friggin’ chunk off the end.
Meteor s#it!
I was going to reply and suddenly have a terrible case of C.R.S???
“One of your sisters wanted it, maybe?”
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No. They were just as upset as I was. And, there was a lot more things of monetary value in the house they could have taken if they were of that mindset. I suspect the grandson of the neighbors down the road. We had warned him off the property a couple of times over the past year.
There are signs at each door that say “Smile, you are on camera”. Only my sisters are aware that cameras are actually in place (they are hidden very well), and I suspect the neighborhood ner-do-well thought the signs were just a fake message. The rock missing was just discovered over the past few days and with the holidays we haven’t had a chance to pursue it further. I just have to get hubby to take the tall ladder up there to retrieve the camera that points at the front door and deck where the rocks were located.
Not true. The “andromeda strain” was a microorganism collected in space by a research probe that crashed back to earth in a rural area. The rustics found it, pried it open and released the deadly pathogen. Crichton was a great writer and insightful. He definitely was not woke. He avidly disparaged and mocked the global warming lunatics. If he wrote the story today, he would have the elites secretly funding, collecting the pathogen and then release it on the American population.
I have a meteor that weighs something like 80 pounds.
It was, indeed, called "Project Scoop," and its purpose was to collect microorganisms from Outer Space.
But at least in the film, it was a micrometeorite carrying the alien pathogen that penetrated the satellite - that is, the "Wildfire" scientists at least initially regard it as a fleck of paint and/or micrometeorite - it might have been the pathogen, itself.
Sorry that I can't be more specific - it's been literally weeks since I last watched this great film.
Regards,
Years ago one one of these “meteorite threads” there was a freeper who said his dad had a huge one that he used to mark the end of the driveway iirc. He said it would take a backhoe to move it and they weren’t sure what to do with it when the old man sold the place (or died).
It would take me a backhoe to move 80 lbs, but a younger buck could do it on his own.
I think meteors become meteorites when the land.
Size reduction, I presume?
Beware of the Blob!
It leaps and creeps
And slides and glides
Across the floor.
Right through the door
And all around the room.
A splotch, a blotch.
Be of careful of the Blob!
The only hit song by The Four Blobs
The Blob was written by actress Kay Linaker, who starred in several of the old Charlie Chan movies. She used her married name Kay Phillps.
Maybe liberals came from a meteor. Maybe the Andromeda Strain was a documentary!
BOOM!! There it is! Does make one wonder.
“I think meteors become meteorites when the land.”
That is correct. And I learned something new. Before they become meteors they are meteoroids (so before they enter the planet’s atmosphere).
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