[meteorite-list] A giveaway, an ad, and a commentary

[tracy latimer]

At the risk of annoying anyone who doesn't like to hear Steve's endless 
giveaway posts, I have a few micros to hand out myself.  I would give them 
to a school, but since they are micros, they are less than impressive, 
despite being uncommon types.  You have seen them in one of my previous 
posts: a .15g piece of NWA 1879 (MES, anom), a .05g piece of NWA 060 (CK5), 
and a 6g piece of Darwin Glass, free to a good home.  I'll even pick up the 
postage within the US.  I have bigger pieces of NWA that I give out to kids 
when I talk about meteorites at schools or the library.  If there is no 
response, I will not bring them up again to the List.

That being said, I also have some storage/display boxes for sale.  I bought 
them from a seller in Australia who got their measurements confused, and 
sending them back would cost me more than the boxes are worth.  The boxes 
are clear plastic on top, white opaque plastic beneath, 7cm x 5.5 cm x about 
2cm deep; they have a little jump ring on the top, and apparently were used 
for jewelry display or some such.  I thought they were the tiny boxes for a 
pair of stud earrings, which would have made them great for my tiny micros, 
but I was wrong.  $5 for 10, or 30 for $10, plus $1 for postage inside the 
US.  I can take Paypal.  Again, if no response, I'll not bring them to the 
List again.

Thirdly, I ignore the blog, having been there once and seen the type of 
puerile crap that is the stock in trade.  Its main function, despite the 
best intentions of its owner, seems to be in keeping the spew of its 
contributors from spilling over onto this site, which still happens every so 
often.

Fourthly, yes, bad things happened in the past, such as the Barringer land 
grab/ crater research (depending how you want to look at it).   This goes 
for many things; humans can be quite the nasty bunch, particularly to each 
other.  HOWEVER, I am not the one personally responsible for the Nazis, the 
killing off of Native Americans as settlers moved west, the overthrow of the 
Hawaiian monarchy, exploitation of slaves in various parts of the world, 
etc. etc. We can't change the past, and making restitution for every mean 
thing our ancestors have done to each other becomes difficult, if not 
impossible and a little silly, after several hundred years.  The German part 
of me would find it hard to compensate the Hungarian part of me for things 
that happened during WWII.  All we can do is acknowledge it, try to prevent 
the bad parts from happening again, and move on.

I will undoubtedly be flamed for this.  Sorry for anyone I offended; I'm 
attempting to be logical and reasonable.

Meteorites are good.
Tracy Latimer