Guest #1 October 30, 2003 This scumbag got eight years. One of his co-conspirators got 5+ years, the others got house arrest and hefty fines. mh"The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #2 October 30, 2003 What are the odds that they did not take proper care of the rocks, and therefore contaminated them? My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cloudseeker2001 0 #3 October 30, 2003 I guess they didn't get their rocks off..........not much differnce between moon rocks and earth rocks.........a little iron and silica thats all! "Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance, others mean and rueful of the western dream" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest #4 October 30, 2003 There is an enormous amount of difference between earth rocks and moonrocks, the first and most obvious being an absolutely total lack of water in the moonrocks. This alone is proof that the rocks couldn't have come from Earth. "The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,172 #5 October 31, 2003 QuoteThere is an enormous amount of difference between earth rocks and moonrocks, the first and most obvious being an absolutely total lack of water in the moonrocks. This alone is proof that the rocks couldn't have come from Earth. I believe there have been very successful lab syntheses of moon-rock look alikes to see what conditions could have formed the moon rocks. In around 1972 we got some moon rock for study at Cambridge U. and were asked to process some (Earth) minerals through an induction plasma to see if the morphology came out the same. It did, the stuff we made was for all practical purposes indistinguishable. There's not much water in anything that goes through a plasma at 6,000K.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest #6 October 31, 2003 I guess the point I was trying to make was that there are goofballs who claim to have "proof" that the moon landings were fake, etc. I think that they're just making a buck by fleecing the rubes. mh"The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumper03 0 #7 October 31, 2003 Quotearound 1972 we got some moon rock for study at Cambridge U. and were asked to process some (Earth) minerals through an induction plasma to see if the morphology came out the same. Say what??? I'm an experimental petrologist and I have jo f&&&&@ clue what you just sayd. course it could be the tequila talking. I'll pm you in the morning when i'm lucent. JumpScars remind us that the past is real Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,172 #8 October 31, 2003 QuoteQuotearound 1972 we got some moon rock for study at Cambridge U. and were asked to process some (Earth) minerals through an induction plasma to see if the morphology came out the same. Say what??? I'm an experimental petrologist and I have jo f&&&&@ clue what you just sayd. course it could be the tequila talking. I'll pm you in the morning when i'm lucent. Jump Well, the mineralogists were interested in the shapes of some small particles of moon dust and speculated that they could have resulted from rapid quenching after massive heating and vaporization due to meteor impacts. So they gave us the raw materials of the right chemical composition and we just injected the stuff into an induction plasma. On emerging into the air the stuff quenched almost instantaneously from 6000+ degrees (C) to ambient. Sure enough, the resultant particles when viewed in the SEM looked just like the moon stuff. I may be fuzzy on the details, this was 31 years ago.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
