[meteorite-list] Yet another gimmicky expensive meteorite"collectable"
Darren Garrison
cynapse at charter.net
Tue Jul 7 13:04:11 EDT 2009
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:23:52 +0200, you wrote:
>Legislature means: politicians and civil servants.
>Of course these people can't have any idea what a meteorite is, how they are
>found, how many do exist, what for a scientific or economical value they
>have or don't have and how they were exchanged between finders, museums,
>dealers, collectors in past.
Also, being a successful politician doesn't require that you actually be very
intelligent or well educated-- it requires only that you can tell a majority of
the people what they want to hear. With "leaders" like this, maybe Arizona will
be the next place to outlaw meteorites:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/07/jebus_how_do_these_dingbats_ge.php
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