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Meteorite ?
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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Meteorite ?
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. Regards, Joe Agro, Jr. (800) 871-5022 01.908.542.0244 Automatic / Pneumatic Drills: http://www.AutoDrill.com Multiple Spindle Drills: http://www.Multi-Drill.com Production Tapping: http://Production-Tapping-Equipment.com/ Flagship Site: http://www.Drill-N-Tap.com VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/user/AutoDrill TWITTER: http://twitter.com/AutoDrill FACEBOOK: http://tinyurl.com/AutoDrill-Facebook V8013-R "Sunworshipper" wrote in message ... 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 On 2010-12-29, Sunworshipper wrote: 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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"Sunworshipper" wrote in message ... 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
wrote: 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. Gunner "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." --Gene Spafford, 1992 |
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On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:56:45 -0600, Ignoramus18879
wrote: 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 If it's good enough for Ron @ Ronco... -- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. -- Epictetus |
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"Sunworshipper" wrote in message ... 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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On 12/29/2010 3:24 PM, Sunworshipper wrote:
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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On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:34:06 -0800, "Steve B"
wrote: "Sunworshipper" wrote in message .. . 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. -- "Steamboat Ed" Haas : Steel, Stainless, Titanium: Hacking the Trailing Edge! : Guaranteed Uncertified Welding! www.nmpproducts.com ---Decks a-wash in a sea of words--- |
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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." ;-) Rich |
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steamer wrote: --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? -- For the last time: I am not a mad scientist, I'm just a very ticked off scientist!!! |
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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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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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Sizzle, sizzle.
Martin 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.. ;-) -- "Steamboat Ed" Haas : Steel, Stainless, Titanium: Hacking the Trailing Edge! : Guaranteed Uncertified Welding! www.nmpproducts.com ---Decks a-wash in a sea of words--- |
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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? ;-) -- For the last time: I am not a mad scientist, I'm just a very ticked off scientist!!! |
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