[meteorite-list] Ice Meteorites From Jesus

[Meteorites USA]

What worries me about things like this is that when/if scientists 
actually do find proof of extraterrestrial life in meteorites, stories 
like this will dilute the fantastic nature of such a discovery...!

Eric


On 11/29/2010 9:20 AM, JoshuaTreeMuseum wrote:
> The press conference is tomorrow. This could be as big as Roswell!  I 
> can't wait:
>
>
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> http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/will-proof-of-extraterrestrial-life-be-revealed-at-a-michigan-ramada-inn/19735919 
>
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> Will Proof of Extraterrestrial Life Be Revealed at a Ramada Inn?
> Larry Knowles
> AOL News
> (Nov. 29) -- A Michigan man claiming to possess an ice meteorite rich 
> in extraterrestrial organisms will announce in a news conference 
> Tuesday that alien life, at long last, has been found. The 
> announcement will take place at a Ramada Inn in South Haven, Mich.
>
> "I prayed for Jesus to send me an ice meteorite, because I knew it 
> would be quite valuable," Duane P. Snyder, 65, said of the chunk of 
> ice he found on a South Haven roadway in 2000.
>
> Valuable indeed. For centuries, humankind has sought confirmation that 
> it isn't alone in the universe. If Snyder's claim is accurate, the 
> South Haven resident will be catapulted to worldwide fame, and the 
> Ramada Inn, 50 miles west of Kalamazoo, will likely become an iconic 
> landmark for the human race.
>
>
>
> Duane P. Snyder
> E.T. may phone home -- from a Ramada Inn in South Haven, Mich. The red 
> object above was found embedded in a chunk of ice in 2000. The owner 
> of the chunk, Duane P. Snyder, believes the squiggle is an alien life 
> form and will discuss his finding at the Ramada Inn this week.
> In March 2000, Snyder noticed several chunks of ice on the road near 
> his home. Since it hadn't snowed for weeks, he deduced that the ice 
> must have been an ice meteorite. After gathering up a few pieces and 
> stashing them in his freezer, he spent the next 10 years trying to 
> convince scientists to analyze the frozen mass.
>
> However, Snyder received little interest from the scientific 
> community, and in September, he paid to have chemical analyses 
> performed by two commercial laboratories. What the labs found -- that 
> samples contained particles with unique molecular structures -- 
> convinced Snyder that he indeed had in his possession alien life forms.
>
> He has set up a website, snydericyrite.com, where people can purchase 
> the lab reports and photos of the particles. He's given the particles 
> descriptive names, such as "Red Watani Worm," "Six Legged Life Form" 
> and "Clear Snakelike Life Form."
>
> In a phone interview with AOL News, Snyder emphasized that more 
> rigorous analysis is needed to determine just what sort of alien life 
> form he has, adding that the prohibitive cost has so far prevented him 
> from getting tests done.
>
> "I'm hoping some scientist calls and says, 'Hey, Duane, I'll do it for 
> you,'" Snyder said.
>
> Last week, Snyder took strides toward getting that call. He issued a 
> press release, under the headline "Ice Meteorite Found With 
> Extraterrestrial Life-Forms," in which he announced Tuesday's news 
> conference.
>
> The release received worldwide distribution and, according to Snyder, 
> media outlets from Germany, Mexico and Sweden plan to cover the story.
>
> All the attention means that, for a brief moment, the Ramada Inn in 
> South Haven will be at the center of the world -- or, in this case, 
> universe. And that has the staff at the Ramada Inn slightly anxious.
>
> "We haven't had a chance to speak with Mr. Snyder," Saima Farrukh, 
> director of operations for the Ramada Inn in South Haven, told AOL 
> News. "And we're all kind of curious to know what kind of life form he 
> has."
> Farrukh added that the press release only piqued her curiosity.
>
> "It didn't give a lot of info," she said, "so I was going through my 
> chemistry book to find out what the terms mean."
>
> Snyder, a former Air Force mechanic and self-described inventor, spent 
> a good portion of his life looking for meteorites before stumbling on 
> his momentous block of ice.
>
> "I'd been hunting meteorites for a long time," he said, "and I kept 
> finding 'meteor-wrongs.'"
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