[meteorite-list] 7 plagues

[Darryl Pitt]

oy.

it's ten plagues--not seven; burning ice (nice touch) would have made  
it eleven.



On Jun 11, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Michael L Blood wrote:


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

>

>

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

>>

> -----

> 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

>> Lunar and Planetary Institute

>> 3600 Bay Area Boulevard

>> Houston TX 77058 USA

>>

>> 281-486-2117

>> 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

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>> -- Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com> wrote:

>>>>> Steve, not likely in our lifetimes, the money that

>>>>> could have been spent going back to the moon, building

>>>>> a permant base, then going to Mars, all of it could

>>>>> have been done with the money we have pissed away in

>>>>> Iraq. But hey, look at it this way, Haliburton moved

>>>>> to Dubai to be closer to the money, they are taking

>>>>> good care of it for us, the taxpayers.

>>>>> Enough of things that do not pertain to meteorites

>>>>> though, we have all had our say and I will leave this

>>>>> topic since I have a meteorite show to attend and then

>>>>> meteorites to dig up in the Arctic.

>>>>> Michael Farmer

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>> --- Steve Schoner <schoner at mybluelight.com> wrote:

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>> So true Mike Farmer.  That is the problem with our

>>>>>> age.  We want

>>>>>> everything never taking into consideration what we

>>>>>> leave those that

>>>>>> follow us after we are dead and gone.

>>>>>>

>>>>>> They will curse us or thank us for what we do now.

>>>>>>

>>>>>> But to do nothing about global warming now, which is

>>>>>> a scientifically

>>>>>> proven fact, pretty much leaves them with a ruined

>>>>>> world and a curse

>>>>>> for us.

>>>>>>

>>>>>> (Maybe by then they will have left this planet to

>>>>>> terraform Mars, and

>>>>>> mine asteroids (parent bodies of the meteorites we

>>>>>> love) for their

>>>>>> resources, all the while looking out into space or

>>>>>> up into a Martian

>>>>>> sky at a bright star that was the world we ruined.)

>>>>>>

>>>>>> Steve Schoner.

>>>>>> #4470

>>>>>>

>>>>>> [meteorite-list] Global Warming - Scientifically

>>>>>> proven or a farce

>>>>>> Michael Farmer meteoriteguy at yahoo.com

>>>>>> Sun Jun 10 13:25:59 EDT 2007

>>>>>>

>>>>>>     * Previous message: [meteorite-list] Global

>>>>>> Warming -

>>>>>> Scientifically proven or a farce

>>>>>>     * Next message: [meteorite-list] Global Warming

>>>>>> - Scientifically

>>>>>> proven or a farce

>>>>>>     * Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [

>>>>>> subject ] [ author ]

>>>>>>

>>>>>> Paul, ok, lest say you are the proud winner of that

>>>>>> bet! Bush got his way, America refused to do it's

>>>>>> part

>>>>>> and the oceans only raise 4 feet in the next 10

>>>>>> years.

>>>>>>

>>>>>> I guess you had better go to Florida/New York

>>>>>> City/Boston, most of the Gulf Coast, and well, most

>>>>>> of

>>>>>> the Island nations in the Pacific. They will be

>>>>>> gone,

>>>>>> good job! Oh, and the Billionairs on Long Island and

>>>>>> Cape Cod had better sell their homes now, since a 4

>>>>>> foot rise in sealevel will wash them all away. What

>>>>>> will Dubya do without the family compound in

>>>>>> Kennebunkport?

>>>>>> I lived in Key West Florida. The highest point of

>>>>>> the

>>>>>> island is 6 feet. Most of the island is less than 3

>>>>>> feet above sea level, as is a very large part of

>>>>>> Florida. Kiss it goodbye, and trillions of $$$ of

>>>>>> land, homes, and a huge part of our nation.

>>>>>> Does that make it ok to ignore the melting glaciers,

>>>>>> ok to do what we are doing now and not even bother

>>>>>> making changes? That is SICK!

>>>>>> Unfortunately that is the mentality of a huge part

>>>>>> of

>>>>>> our nation today, all about me, my money, and today,

>>>>>> screw tomorrow, and I gues screw our children, and

>>>>>> grandchildren, they can learn to live in the crappy

>>>>>> world we created today to get "ours" right?

>>>>>> My kids (If I ever have any) will likely never see a

>>>>>> glacier in Switzerland, a Polar bear in northern

>>>>>> Canada, or a white Greenland. It is all going away.

>>>>>> sort of makes me not want to have kids, so they will

>>>>>> not have to suffer for our mistakes.

>>>>>> Michael Farmer

>>>>>>

>>>>>> ______________________________________________

>>>>>> Meteorite-list mailing list

>>>>>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com

>>>>>>

>>>>>>

>>>>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

>>>>>

>>>>>>

>>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>> ______________________________________________

>>>>> Meteorite-list mailing list

>>>>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com

>>>>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> ______________________________________________

>>>> Meteorite-list mailing list

>>>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com

>>>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

>>>>

>>>> ______________________________________________

>>>> Meteorite-list mailing list

>>>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com

>>>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

>>>>

>>>

>>> --

>>> If You Want a Nation Ruled By Religion, Move to Iran

>>> --

>>> Success is not counted by how high you have climbed but by how

>>> many people you brought with you.  – Anonymous

>>> -- 

>>> I have given two cousins to war and I stand

>>> ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

>>>          Artemus Ward

>>> --

>>> --

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>> ______________________________________________

>>> Meteorite-list mailing list

>>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com

>>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

>>>

>>>

>>

>> ______________________________________________

>> Meteorite-list mailing list

>> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com

>> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

>>

>

> --

> If You Want a Nation Ruled By Religion, Move to Iran

> --

> Success is not counted by how high you have climbed but by how

> many people you brought with you.  – Anonymous

> -- 

> I have given two cousins to war and I stand

> ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

>          Artemus Ward

> --

> --

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

> ______________________________________________

> Meteorite-list mailing list

> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com

> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

>