[meteorite-list] 7 plagues

[Sterling K. Webb]

    Give me The Rain Of Frogs anyday!

Sterling
(PS: Toads will do if you're short of frogs)
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael L Blood" <mlblood at cox.net>
To: "Allan Treiman" <treiman at lpi.usra.edu>; "Meteorite List" 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] 7 plagues


on 6/11/07 2:11 PM, Allan Treiman at treiman at lpi.usra.edu wrote:


> Burning ice??? Is that in the Bible?

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One of the 7 plagues of Egypt - Moses was one of those
"by any means necessary" dudes. They were being held
as slaves, you know.
Lets see, they had:
frogs
grasshoppers
Nile turned red
Rained burning ice &  couple of others, including
the cincher, which was the death of the first born son of
every house - which is the basis of "Passover,"
when the Jews painted their doors with the blood
of a lamb to insure protection from same. I can understand
if you didn't read the book, but didn't you see the movie?!!
They show it on TV every Easter.
        Michael


> Could they have found some methane clathrate?

>

>   aht

>

> Allan Treiman

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> treiman at lpi.usra.edu

>

>

>

> On Jun 11, 2007, at 3:41 PM, Michael L Blood wrote:

>

>> Hi Martin,

>>         Actually, many meteorites are reported to have killed

>> people....

>> but none I know of that are available or close to having a solid

>> provenience. One was discussed at length on the list just a couple

>> of months ago - some Roman officer and a bunch of his men. I

>> believe the Bible has more than one incident reported as well.

>> Hell, I would like to have one of the frogs in formaldehyde from

>> the 7 plagues of Egypt, not to mention the burning ice.

>>         A documented KILLER meteorite? I would buy all I could!

>>         (By the way, Dr. Deits, one of the first to propose

>> "continental

>> drift" in the early 1900s was quoted as saying he wanted to die

>> being struck by a meteorite, then fossilized and recovered by future

>> generations).

>>         Best wishes, Michael

>>

>> on 6/11/07 1:09 PM, Martin Altmann at altmann at meteorite-martin.de

>> wrote:

>>

>>> Forwarded from Andi Gren, who doesn't come through neither

>>> (well Andi, at least I would pay a good price for that L6, if it

>>> will hit a

>>> certain person in Illinois...just a joke):

>>>

>>>

>>> Hi Tim , List , all involved in this interesting treat,

>>>

>>> Your suggestion about the Asteroid wiping out half of the planet

>>> and then be

>>> sold on e bay brings me back to Meteorites.

>>> When I have seen the first time a picture from the Lady hit by the

>>> Sylacauga Meteorite, I was happy to know it's not reported a

>>> Meteorite ever

>>> kills a person. It makes our hobby in some way more peaceful. But

>>> I always

>>> asking my self what would happen if a Meteorite would kill a

>>> person? The

>>> Hammers and Cow killers are well paid and I know Sylacauga was

>>> very very

>>> well paid at a meteorite auction this year at the Tucson show.

>>> So would the Meteorite be the most expensive L6 ever been sold?

>>> Ore would

>>> nobody like to own a slice of a human killer hammer? Ok, I'm sure

>>> everybody

>>> would agree an impact kit is out of respect, but what's about the

>>> Meteorite,

>>> who would like to own a human killer Hammer?

>>>

>>> best greetings

>>> Andi

>>>

>>>

>>> We are a society that starves our grandchildren to feed our children.

>>>

>>> All the signs are there to prove that Mother Earth cannot take

>>> anymore of

>>> the pollution and the destruction we throw at her.

>>> We are seeing increasing numbers of Tsunami's, Volcanic eruptions and

>>> Earthquakes even here in England we are experiencing this.

>>>

>>> One really sad thing I see is one day an Asteroid comes and hits

>>> us and

>>> wipes out half the planet I see unfortunately some humans would

>>> try and

>>> drag the remnants of it away and attempt to sell it on Ebay

>>> because cash

>>> is all that is worshipped.

>>>

>>>> Mike,

>>>>

>>>> Look at the positive side of this for our hobby and business...

>>>>

>>>> With Global Warming (that some doubt) the Arctic will have less ice,

>>>> and our grass and farmlands lands will become deserts.  Just imagine

>>>> all the new meteorites that will become exposed and available to us

>>>> collectors.

>>>>

>>>> And the prices will go down, too.

>>>>

>>>> But all of these benefits will be far outweighed by the economic

>>>> impact

>>>> of Global Warming that the Republican "Bushites" doubt.  A natural

>>>> cycle, some say, but look at the ice in the Arctic that

>>>> environmental

>>>> scientists are coring.  It certainly shows a vastly greater

>>>> increase in

>>>> carbon dioxide emissions over the last 150 years that corresponds

>>>> directly to human activity during our Industrial Revolution.  The

>>>> greatest increase in 900,000 years.  And just think, 600,000

>>>> years ago

>>>> Yellowstone caldera supervolcano erupted, a brief yet catastrophic

>>>> event for the entire earth.  It's overall impact was small

>>>> compared to

>>>> what we are doing now.

>>>>

>>>> But back to meteorites...   The prices will drop as more are

>>>> found due

>>>> to the melting of Arctic ice, desertfication of our grass and

>>>> farmlands... But the question is... Who will buy them once the

>>>> economic

>>>> crunch of Global Warming hits our pocket books?

>>>>

>>>> Steve Schoner

>>>> IMCA #4470

>>>>