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Did someone pay him for the rare meteorite? At least enough to fix the roof? Who should one contact if this happens?
someone recently SOLD a t-rex skeleton for $50 MILLION (61% complete) so you should be able to sell meteorites that land on your property only thing you can't own/sell is NASA Moon Rocks
If you ever watched Hardcore Pawn it looks like they would buy just about anything for the right price :)
Did someone pay him for the rare meteorite? At least enough to fix the roof? Who should one contact if this happens?
Everybody knows that. You contact NASA. Then a black helicopter will pick you up, bring you to an airbase and fly you straight to the white house, where you will be introduced to the actual truth, while a team of very excited scientists with biohazard suits praise and examine the artefact. If you're still sceptical, they will take you to a large hidden hangar in the middle of the desert and show you around.
> Only one was recovered because it hit a house. You lost me there. Is recovery possible only if a house is hit??
No? It's obvious the meaning is that most meteorites will never be found because they're tiny and no one witnesses where they land. If it hits a house you know where it landed.
Did someone pay him for the rare meteorite? At least enough to fix the roof? Who should one contact if this happens?
Everybody knows that. You contact NASA. Then a black helicopter will pick you up, bring you to an airbase and fly you straight to the white house, where you will be introduced to the actual truth, while a team of very excited scientists with biohazard suits praise and examine the artefact. If you're still sceptical, they will take you to a large hidden hangar in the middle of the desert and show you around.
You contact NASA because you found a meteorite with clear signs of alien life, a black helicopter will pick you up, you get put in a dark cell, interrogated, and then told to forget all about it or G-Men will disappear your family. You try to sell the news to mass media, but rumours start to spread about you. Your life work get discredited, you lose your job and family, end up wandering the streets in an alcohol daze muttering about aliens.
I guess it depends if you've drank the kool aid about the US government being the good guys, or not.
Browsing that site, The SETI Institute appears to have expanded beyond its original goal of finding extraterrestrial intelligence into astrobiology and more. Perhaps the first attempts at detecting alien radio signals hoped too much? I have little doubt that, given the infinite size of the universe, that extraterrestrial intelligence (of some sort) exists, the question is whether we will ever detect it... It perhaps…
No, ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Clipper
The landing plan was scrapped last year. :/
> Researchers found preserved bits from near the surface of the original asteroid where it experienced concentrated salty fluids Are we sure the guy who picked it up didn't just wash it with some sort of detergent after it cooled off?
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No? It's obvious the meaning is that most meteorites will never be found because they're tiny and no one witnesses where they land. If it hits a house you know where it landed.
Not tiny. This is specifically about the largest.
Did someone pay him for the rare meteorite? At least enough to fix the roof? Who should one contact if this happens?
In the US, if a meteorite lands on your property, it's yours and you can sell or donate it as you please. This homeowner probably made a decent amount on the sale, especially with the emphasis on immediate preservation.
Does this happen often in the US?
I mean often enough that folks happen to know the legality of it?
In which case I find it extremely frightening that one could be sitting on their porch, minding their own business, browsing HN, and then get unexpectedly head-shotted by a meteorite.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the US, if a meteorite lands on your property, it's yours and you can sell or donate it as you please. This homeowner probably made a decent amount on the sale, especially with the emphasis on immediate preservation.
> In the US, if a meteorite lands on your property, it's yours and you can sell or donate it as you please. Does this happen often in the US? I mean often enough that folks happen to know the legality of it? In which case I find it extremely frightening that one could be sitting on their porch, minding their own business, browsing HN, and then get unexpectedly head-shotted by a meteorite.