[meteorite-list] An embarrassment to us all (but mostly me)!Hi

[Starsinthedirt at aol.com]

Thanks Chris,  That makes me feel   better!

I must say you have a GREAT site       http://www.cloudbait.com    I 
encourage other list members  to  check it out.  Thanks!

Tom


In a message dated  4/5/2010 11:36:35 A.M. Mountain Daylight Time, 
clp at alumni.caltech.edu  writes:
This nutjob posts on various astronomy forums. He thinks every rock  imaged 
on Mars is a fossilized liver or brain, and that meteorites are full  of 
fossilized bacteria. The guy is so extreme that mental illness is the  only 
likely excuse. There's nothing to be embarrassed about- nobody that  
matters 
is likely to take him seriously. (I already saw a response in one  forum, 
pointing out that your image did not show a housefly in a meteorite;  where 
I 
saw this posting I also saw a link to your site, so anybody can go  there 
and 
see that for themselves. In fact, you should think of this as free  
advertising- I found the claim so extraordinary that I followed the link 
and  
say your excellent page, which I might otherwise have missed  <g>.)

Chris

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Chris  L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


-----  Original Message ----- 
From: <Starsinthedirt at aol.com>
To:  <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010  11:18 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] An embarrassment to us all (but mostly  me)!Hi


> Hi list.  Some of you have pointed out the   eBay seller claiming to have
> human blood vessels in Martian  meteorites.   Cute and harmless nut?
>
> I just stumbled  onto  this!
>
>
>  http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-426479
>
> A housefly  found in  a meteorite
> March 30, 2010 | Taiwan | Vetting explained
>
>  This  "report" is not he first time this guy has used my images and my  
> name
> to make  insane claims.  But this is the first  time he has said that
> microphotographer (Tom Phillips), (Me), said he  found a house fly in a 
> meteorite
> slice.  This is  embarrassing to all meteorite collectors.
>
> It is  just a  photomicrograph of a house fly to demonstrate a
> microphotography   technique.   This is explained clearly in the 
Meteorite 
> Times  article
> he swiped the image from.  Stating otherwise could not be  an honest 
> error.
> He has made up words and said I was the author  of those words.
>
> This guy should be banned from posting, all his  posts should be removed,
> and if possible his computer taken away and  given to a child who knows 
how 
> to
> use it.
>
> Any  ideas of how to stop this insanity would be appreciated.
>
> My  micrographs are already unconventional.  I pursue more art than 
>  science
> and I ignore standard techniques used in meteorite  examination.   The 
most
> obvious difference in my images is  magnification levels higher than  
what 
> is
> even useful in  petro grade determinations.  As a result, I have  come up
> with  some unusual looking features in meteorites.  When you come up  
with  
> the
> unusual you have a high standard of accuracy to maintain or  every thing 
> is
> dismissed.
>
> I did not find a  house fly in a meteorite slice!!!  The house fly was a
> house fly  slide.  Part of a child's "Insects under the  microscope"  set.
>
> Why are his eBay listings claiming human body parts  in  Martian 
meteorites
> (very high priced) still allowed on  eBay???  Does the  IMCA have no
> influence with  eBay?
>
> Thanks,   Tom  Phillips

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