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Strange stuff, yesterday I stopped on a gravel road at a place I
noticed that the ground didn't freeze and have been thinking about for
2 weeks. Sure enough was a bit mushy for frozen solid. Today I ask a
friend if antifreeze does that type of thing up here @ the 45th or am
I nuts while I have the metal detector in the vehicle. I'm thinking
Russia satellite, got to stop reading these, the sky is falling books.
The bounce is uranium and gold mining in the area, anyhow I stop again
and the detector goes blank in the area. Hmmm, break out the shovel
and not easy digging. Try the detector again, the non-signal is gone,
cool. Got the thing in hand and still shuts off the detector. All I
have is a cheapy volume knob control, seems to have stopped working
right up here next to Iron mountain MI. Then the inlaw shows up and
said that he dumped antifreeze there...

So I wash it off and it is black and like a regular rock smooth on one
side and broken on the other like it exploded and on the smooth side
looks like the surface popped off like a torch to concrete. The broken
side looks like polarized crystals as if they move about 1/32" above
the surface, I don't shake much and don't need glasses up close.

Recently I gave away a lathe and noticed almost out the door a magnet
so strong I couldn't get it off and it was given back weeks later,
which I keep in a special place with a warning sign. This thing jumps
right up to the magnet and the taconite that I have from years ago
slowly moves to it. The thing is greenish compared to the taconite.

I saw one site for nickel testing , but lost it at the moment. I also
found a impact site close to me through google earth, but as yet been
able to figure out how to find out or not, big lush cedar swamp.
Someday it will be magnetometer experiments.

Anyhow, thought that was weird, found something on a false anomaly.

SW
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If it is a meteorite, don't play with it too much. They can be worth 100X
their weight in gold.

Have someone who knows about such things check it out.

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Strange stuff, yesterday I stopped on a gravel road at a place I
noticed that the ground didn't freeze and have been thinking about for
2 weeks. Sure enough was a bit mushy for frozen solid. Today I ask a
friend if antifreeze does that type of thing up here @ the 45th or am
I nuts while I have the metal detector in the vehicle. I'm thinking
Russia satellite, got to stop reading these, the sky is falling books.
The bounce is uranium and gold mining in the area, anyhow I stop again
and the detector goes blank in the area. Hmmm, break out the shovel
and not easy digging. Try the detector again, the non-signal is gone,
cool. Got the thing in hand and still shuts off the detector. All I
have is a cheapy volume knob control, seems to have stopped working
right up here next to Iron mountain MI. Then the inlaw shows up and
said that he dumped antifreeze there...

So I wash it off and it is black and like a regular rock smooth on one
side and broken on the other like it exploded and on the smooth side
looks like the surface popped off like a torch to concrete. The broken
side looks like polarized crystals as if they move about 1/32" above
the surface, I don't shake much and don't need glasses up close.

Recently I gave away a lathe and noticed almost out the door a magnet
so strong I couldn't get it off and it was given back weeks later,
which I keep in a special place with a warning sign. This thing jumps
right up to the magnet and the taconite that I have from years ago
slowly moves to it. The thing is greenish compared to the taconite.

I saw one site for nickel testing , but lost it at the moment. I also
found a impact site close to me through google earth, but as yet been
able to figure out how to find out or not, big lush cedar swamp.
Someday it will be magnetometer experiments.

Anyhow, thought that was weird, found something on a false anomaly.

SW



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It could be a meteorite.

When I was a kid I found an egg shaped piece that was as you
described. I may still have it.

i

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Strange stuff, yesterday I stopped on a gravel road at a place I
noticed that the ground didn't freeze and have been thinking about for
2 weeks. Sure enough was a bit mushy for frozen solid. Today I ask a
friend if antifreeze does that type of thing up here @ the 45th or am
I nuts while I have the metal detector in the vehicle. I'm thinking
Russia satellite, got to stop reading these, the sky is falling books.
The bounce is uranium and gold mining in the area, anyhow I stop again
and the detector goes blank in the area. Hmmm, break out the shovel
and not easy digging. Try the detector again, the non-signal is gone,
cool. Got the thing in hand and still shuts off the detector. All I
have is a cheapy volume knob control, seems to have stopped working
right up here next to Iron mountain MI. Then the inlaw shows up and
said that he dumped antifreeze there...

So I wash it off and it is black and like a regular rock smooth on one
side and broken on the other like it exploded and on the smooth side
looks like the surface popped off like a torch to concrete. The broken
side looks like polarized crystals as if they move about 1/32" above
the surface, I don't shake much and don't need glasses up close.

Recently I gave away a lathe and noticed almost out the door a magnet
so strong I couldn't get it off and it was given back weeks later,
which I keep in a special place with a warning sign. This thing jumps
right up to the magnet and the taconite that I have from years ago
slowly moves to it. The thing is greenish compared to the taconite.

I saw one site for nickel testing , but lost it at the moment. I also
found a impact site close to me through google earth, but as yet been
able to figure out how to find out or not, big lush cedar swamp.
Someday it will be magnetometer experiments.

Anyhow, thought that was weird, found something on a false anomaly.

SW

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Strange stuff, yesterday I stopped on a gravel road at a place I
noticed that the ground didn't freeze and have been thinking about for
2 weeks. Sure enough was a bit mushy for frozen solid. Today I ask a
friend if antifreeze does that type of thing up here @ the 45th or am
I nuts while I have the metal detector in the vehicle. I'm thinking
Russia satellite, got to stop reading these, the sky is falling books.
The bounce is uranium and gold mining in the area, anyhow I stop again
and the detector goes blank in the area. Hmmm, break out the shovel
and not easy digging. Try the detector again, the non-signal is gone,
cool. Got the thing in hand and still shuts off the detector. All I
have is a cheapy volume knob control, seems to have stopped working
right up here next to Iron mountain MI. Then the inlaw shows up and
said that he dumped antifreeze there...

So I wash it off and it is black and like a regular rock smooth on one
side and broken on the other like it exploded and on the smooth side
looks like the surface popped off like a torch to concrete. The broken
side looks like polarized crystals as if they move about 1/32" above
the surface, I don't shake much and don't need glasses up close.

Recently I gave away a lathe and noticed almost out the door a magnet
so strong I couldn't get it off and it was given back weeks later,
which I keep in a special place with a warning sign. This thing jumps
right up to the magnet and the taconite that I have from years ago
slowly moves to it. The thing is greenish compared to the taconite.

I saw one site for nickel testing , but lost it at the moment. I also
found a impact site close to me through google earth, but as yet been
able to figure out how to find out or not, big lush cedar swamp.
Someday it will be magnetometer experiments.

Anyhow, thought that was weird, found something on a false anomaly.

SW


Here is some advice on what to do if you think you have found a meteorite:
http://www.meteorites.wustl.edu/what_to_do.htm

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On 2010-12-29, Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:
Perhaps its radioactive. Is your hair falling out yet?


Mine is falling out.

You can see it in this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVxHrMRQyvw

i


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On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:56:45 -0600, Ignoramus18879
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On 2010-12-29, Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:
Perhaps its radioactive. Is your hair falling out yet?


Mine is falling out.

You can see it in this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVxHrMRQyvw

i


Just tell everyone you are Jewish and are wearing a yarmulke.

No biggy.

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On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:56:45 -0600, Ignoramus18879
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On 2010-12-29, Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:
Perhaps its radioactive. Is your hair falling out yet?


Mine is falling out.

You can see it in this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVxHrMRQyvw


So FIX IT, Ig!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GeF7A05zQ8
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Strange stuff, yesterday I stopped on a gravel road at a place I
noticed that the ground didn't freeze and have been thinking about for
2 weeks. Sure enough was a bit mushy for frozen solid. Today I ask a
friend if antifreeze does that type of thing up here @ the 45th or am
I nuts while I have the metal detector in the vehicle. I'm thinking
Russia satellite, got to stop reading these, the sky is falling books.
The bounce is uranium and gold mining in the area, anyhow I stop again
and the detector goes blank in the area. Hmmm, break out the shovel
and not easy digging. Try the detector again, the non-signal is gone,
cool. Got the thing in hand and still shuts off the detector. All I
have is a cheapy volume knob control, seems to have stopped working
right up here next to Iron mountain MI. Then the inlaw shows up and
said that he dumped antifreeze there...

So I wash it off and it is black and like a regular rock smooth on one
side and broken on the other like it exploded and on the smooth side
looks like the surface popped off like a torch to concrete. The broken
side looks like polarized crystals as if they move about 1/32" above
the surface, I don't shake much and don't need glasses up close.

Recently I gave away a lathe and noticed almost out the door a magnet
so strong I couldn't get it off and it was given back weeks later,
which I keep in a special place with a warning sign. This thing jumps
right up to the magnet and the taconite that I have from years ago
slowly moves to it. The thing is greenish compared to the taconite.

I saw one site for nickel testing , but lost it at the moment. I also
found a impact site close to me through google earth, but as yet been
able to figure out how to find out or not, big lush cedar swamp.
Someday it will be magnetometer experiments.

Anyhow, thought that was weird, found something on a false anomaly.

SW


If the green is olivine, you got something. Those Meteorite Men take theirs
to a University in Arizona, is it Flagstaff?

Steve


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Recently I gave away a lathe and noticed almost out the door a magnet
so strong I couldn't get it off and it was given back weeks later,
which I keep in a special place with a warning sign. This thing jumps
right up to the magnet and the taconite that I have from years ago
slowly moves to it. The thing is greenish compared to the taconite.

I saw one site for nickel testing , but lost it at the moment. I also
found a impact site close to me through google earth, but as yet been
able to figure out how to find out or not, big lush cedar swamp.
Someday it will be magnetometer experiments.

Anyhow, thought that was weird, found something on a false anomaly.


Sounds like a typical sample of green kryptonite.

Keep it away from me.

David
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Strange stuff, yesterday I stopped on a gravel road at a place I
noticed that the ground didn't freeze and have been thinking about for
2 weeks. Sure enough was a bit mushy for frozen solid. Today I ask a
friend if antifreeze does that type of thing up here @ the 45th or am
I nuts while I have the metal detector in the vehicle. I'm thinking
Russia satellite, got to stop reading these, the sky is falling books.
The bounce is uranium and gold mining in the area, anyhow I stop again
and the detector goes blank in the area. Hmmm, break out the shovel
and not easy digging. Try the detector again, the non-signal is gone,
cool. Got the thing in hand and still shuts off the detector. All I
have is a cheapy volume knob control, seems to have stopped working
right up here next to Iron mountain MI. Then the inlaw shows up and
said that he dumped antifreeze there...

So I wash it off and it is black and like a regular rock smooth on one
side and broken on the other like it exploded and on the smooth side
looks like the surface popped off like a torch to concrete. The broken
side looks like polarized crystals as if they move about 1/32" above
the surface, I don't shake much and don't need glasses up close.

Recently I gave away a lathe and noticed almost out the door a magnet
so strong I couldn't get it off and it was given back weeks later,
which I keep in a special place with a warning sign. This thing jumps
right up to the magnet and the taconite that I have from years ago
slowly moves to it. The thing is greenish compared to the taconite.

I saw one site for nickel testing , but lost it at the moment. I also
found a impact site close to me through google earth, but as yet been
able to figure out how to find out or not, big lush cedar swamp.
Someday it will be magnetometer experiments.

Anyhow, thought that was weird, found something on a false anomaly.

SW


If the green is olivine, you got something. Those Meteorite Men take theirs
to a University in Arizona, is it Flagstaff?

Steve


Phoenix.

Jim


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--Go to a car stereo place and look for "Duramat" (IIRC). Basically
it's a peel-and-stick sheet of clay. It does a great job of deadening sound
and other vibrations. I've seen it used in doors, under hoods, etc to knock
down all kinds of noises; oughtta work a treat as a cheap-ish retrofit; no
fancy sandwich steel technology needed.

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I've just heard something so terrifying that it will make your hair fall
out.

Oh. I see you've already heard it. Never mind.

I once had a bald boss, and he had a nice sign on the wall in his office:

"God gave some men perfect heads.
The rest got hair."

;-)
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--Go to a car stereo place and look for "Duramat" (IIRC). Basically
it's a peel-and-stick sheet of clay. It does a great job of deadening sound
and other vibrations. I've seen it used in doors, under hoods, etc to knock
down all kinds of noises; oughtta work a treat as a cheap-ish retrofit; no
fancy sandwich steel technology needed.



I didn't know that metorites made that much nosie, after striking the
earth?

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Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:
Rich Grise wrote:
Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote:

I've just heard something so terrifying that it will make your hair fall
out.

Oh. I see you've already heard it. Never mind.

I once had a bald boss, and he had a nice sign on the wall in his office:

"God gave some men perfect heads.
The rest got hair."


One of my past bosses (African-American)was going gray and balding. And he
was younger than me. He was always whining about it. One Friday afternoon,
we were sitting in his cubicle and he was complaining about it. I
said, "Al, just shave the rest of it off. Its the 'in' look with all the
NBA players". I was just joking around, but the following Monday, he came
in, completely bald.

My grandfather did the same thing. When his hair started to go, it all got
shaved off. He looked sort of like Yul Brenner.

Jean-Luc Picard!

I saw one of those shaved-head guys on some talk show or something,
complaining, "Yeah, it's a popular look, but I wish that the neonazis
hadn't adopted the same hair style!"

When I was about 40-ish, my "cosmetologist," (read, "expensive barber")
said, "You've probably lost all the hair you're going to lose," but at 61
going on 62, my forehead is definitely getting taller. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

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I didn't know that metorites made that much nosie, after striking the
earth?

Well, the meteorite that brought the Blob definitely made much nosie!
Just ask Bullitt!

;-D
Rich



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Sizzle, sizzle.
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On 1/1/2011 9:38 AM, Rich Grise wrote:
Michael A. Terrell wrote:

I didn't know that metorites made that much nosie, after striking the
earth?

Well, the meteorite that brought the Blob definitely made much nosie!
Just ask Bullitt!

;-D
Rich

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Michael A. Terrell wrote:
I didn't know that metorites made that much nosie, after striking the
earth?

--Hey I meant to post that to another thread; how'd it wind up
here?? Musta been the hangover.. ;-)

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steamer wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
I didn't know that metorites made that much nosie, after striking the
earth?

--Hey I meant to post that to another thread; how'd it wind up
here?? Musta been the hangover.. ;-)



The toothpicks that were holding your eyes opened snapped, again? ;-)


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