[meteorite-list] Fw: Re: Arizona fall

[Mark Bowling]

--- On Sun, 7/5/09, Martin Altmann <altmann at meteorite-martin.de> wrote:
> 
> So - let's handle the case more pragmactically:
> Let Schrader, Farmer & Co. save the stones first and
> the strewnfield data,
> before we hang them for the crime to have recovered a new
> pristine fall for
> science and a fall of historical dimensions for the State
> of Arizona.
> 
> Anybody else here, who feels the absurdity the same way
> like me?
> Martin
> 

Reminds me of that poem Lawyers & Experts.

It finishes
"And all the famous fight who saw
Beheld, with mingled pride and awe,
What science breeds when crossed with law."

It's law (& politics) - it doesn't mean it makes sense or ends pretty.  But I don't see anything happening to them.  To me they are providing a valuable service.  Only time will tell.