[meteorite-list] OT Re: who does what for what cause?

[Dave Freeman mjwy]

Mmm...........the Native Americans are in court now to get "rent" from 
the "swindle" that took place over Manhatten  nearly 200 years 
ago.....Now, there is good cause to champion!
DF
Maybe there is a meteorite there!

joseph_town at att.net wrote:

>Darren,
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>What is this Saviour complex you have all about? 30 pieces of silver? Can you be a savior and a martyr at the same time. Will you be on or off the cross tomorrow? A well defined crusade is one thing. Going on about every injustice ever perpetrated by our species is ridiculous.
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>Bill
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>From: Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net>
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>>On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:37:45 EDT, MexicoDoug at aol.com wrote:
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>>I don't have much to say specificly in reply to this, other than to say that I 
>>do appeciate it and
>>thought it to be well thought out and conciderate.  I will say that I probably 
>>would have reacted
>>with less anger if my original two (I felt reasonable) questions on the piece 
>>"has this been
>>examined by professionals and shouldn't something this important be in a museum" 
>>hadn't been replied
>>to with short, snide intentionally belittling replies.
>>
>>I would have liked to have known where it had been examined, and by who, and how 
>>they determined it
>>to be a pterosaur egg, and when I could hope to see published research on the 
>>piece-- anything like
>>that more than a simple "yes it has", showing lack of interest in so much as 
>>sharing such
>>information.  Sharing this info would in no way have hurt his sale-- I wasn't 
>>asking for GPS
>>coordnates of the find site, after all-- I was interested in knowing about this 
>>(if it were real)
>>important find.  Wouldn't you think that, since he brought it up on the list, he 
>>would have been
>>nice enough to tell something about it, if he knew, or cared?  And his 
>>sarcastic, snide,
>>intentionally demeaning, and totally unnecessary "if you care so much buy it 
>>yourself and give it to
>>a museum" (to paraphrase) comment sealed the "ticked off" deal.
>>
>>And then what I did was activly try to find out if the fossil was real, and if 
>>so, which museums I
>>could contact to see if they wanted to buy it.  See, I wasn't trying to take the 
>>fossil from MLB or
>>from the seller and deprive them of their money.  I was trying to find a buyer 
>>for them.  I WANTED
>>to find some professional institution willing to give him his 30 pieces of 
>>silver.  But then, in my
>>asking around for advice on if anyone had heard of this piece, and who I could 
>>contact about
>>possibly buying it, low and behold a certain Kansas fossil expert replied with 
>>the info I posted
>>about someone trying to show him a piece of sandstone last Saturday claiming it 
>>to be a pterodactyl
>>egg.  I haven't used his name on the list because I didn't ask his permission to 
>>draw him into the
>>issue, but if I did give his name, I'm sure most of you interested in fossils in 
>>the US would know
>>the name, would know the web site, and might have read his book.
>>
>>Now, this may not be the same seller.  It may be a big coincidence and MLB has a 
>>real seller of a
>>real pterodactyl egg.  And if MLB would bother to even attempt to show that it 
>>is NOT the same egg,
>>I'll pubicly apologize to MLB about his real egg.  But he hasn't bothered to 
>>even attempt to address
>>the issue-- his replies are all more snide remarks showing how little he thinks 
>>of having some
>>interest other than profit motive in fossils (or possibly in ANYTHING).
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