Source: [url]http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015561879_moonrock10m.html[/url]
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[quote]Joe Gutheinz, a former senior investigator for NASA's Office of Inspector General, has made it his goal to collect all 230 moon rocks presented by the US to governments around the world, and put them in a museum. Deadliest Catch Captain Coleman Anderson wants to keep his little piece of the moon. Anderson says he found the rock in the trash mixed with debris following a fire at an Anchorage museum in 1973. He's kept it as a good luck charm ever since. "Our astronauts and their descendants are not permitted to have an Apollo 11-era moon rock to sell for their own enrichment and neither should a private citizen who acquired one in a less-noble manner," Gutheinz said. An Alaskan judge will now decide who legally owns the rock.[/quote]
If it were my call I'd let him keep the rock until he died then make sure the rock made it back to the museum. Also something about serious fines or something if the rock is destroyed, but he's taking good care of it so I'm not worried about that.
It sounds more like he's gonna keep it as a memory keepsake, not for profit.
It belongs in a museum!
Let him keep it, he risks his life every year to make lodsamone, and he finds a moon rock. i say he deserves it.
It's not like it contains any information critical to scientists studying the moon and it's composition. That being said, since he found it he should be able to keep it seing as he had it for quite some time already and it's only a keepsake for him, not an item to be sold for profit.
As stupid as I think it is that the U.S government is trying to hoard moon rocks like that dragon from the hobbit,
The guy did find it by just picking it off the ground when a building burnt down, I wasn't aware that if a building burns down all items within it were declared free game to be claimed by anyone who walks by.
I think it's retarded that a goverment can call dibs on something that's extraterrestrial...
[QUOTE=Kendra;31058795]I think it's retarded that a goverment can call dibs on something that's extraterrestrial...[/QUOTE]
Ofc, they don't own the moon.
[B]I DO[/B]
It's not like there isn't plenty of rocks on the moon. Pathetic. (On NASA's part)
Too bad Cave Johnson doesn't exists, or he would have purchased the rock.
[QUOTE=TheGronk;31059032]Too bad Cave Johnson doesn't exists, or he would have purchased the rock.[/QUOTE]
except it costs shitloads of cash to put the men on the moon to bring them back as well as probes. Plus, those who really risked it all to go to the moon deserve it more. I still think he should keep it but i think the other side has a pretty good justification for taking the rock. if i were him i wouldn't of told anyone i had a rock..
So people are arguing over a rock? Sounds like a worthwhile use of time
[QUOTE=IliekBoxes;31059117]So people are arguing over a rock? Sounds like a worthwhile use of time[/QUOTE]
People will argue over anything.
These rocks were given out to (all?) countries and the US states as a sign of good will. They're pretty valuable and sell for a shitload of money, with alot of the ones from Africa and shit being sold off by the leaders.
It's not "america controls the moons??!?!" This is the Alaskan rock and it's the property of the (state?) government, but the guy has had it for ages and he'll probably get to keep it for rescuing it.
Finders keepers
Losers weepers
According to NASA, I wasnt alowed to keep 1 moon rock, let alone 230. TOOK THEM ANOWAY, Put them in a musem. Turns out the debris from the Anchorage museum was poisonous. I am deathly ill.
[QUOTE=Kendra;31058795]I think it's retarded that a goverment can call dibs on something that's extraterrestrial...[/QUOTE]
That's like saying you shouldn't be allowed to go to another country to pick flowers, then keep the flowers when you leave.
I think he should be allowed to keep the moon rock, anyway.
[QUOTE=Biotoxsin;31058923]It's not like there isn't plenty of rocks on the moon. Pathetic. (On NASA's part)[/QUOTE]
Yeah! They're space guys, so they can just pop on down to the moon and gets more more rocks whenever the want!
It's okay, he'll die of moon rock poisoning in a few years.
[QUOTE=shatteredwindow;31058583]It belongs in a museum![/QUOTE]
did this seriously fly that far over peoples heads
[QUOTE=shatteredwindow;31058583]It belongs in a museum![/QUOTE]
Ghostbusters reference, eh ?
Hey NASA, you want moon rocks? Go back to the fucking moon.
It's just a fucking rock, the museum already has loads of moon rocks, one shouldn't make a difference.
They aren't challenging the man's story at all, and since the rock was clearly not stolen, it should stay in the hands of that man. The rock was in the trash and would not be in anyone's hand if he hadn't of picked it up out of the trash. I don't care if the guy wants to sell it or not, that's not a factor. If you throw something away and someone finds it at the dump, you have no right to reclaim what you threw away. If the judge decides that he can't keep it I will be quite disappointed. The guy who wants the rock likely tried to buy it off him, and since he can't get it that way, he's trying to pull it off in court.
[QUOTE=Arvuti;31059666]Ghostbusters reference, eh ?[/QUOTE]
Really? I thought it was from Inception.
[QUOTE=Karmah;31058689]It's not like it contains any information critical to scientists studying the moon and it's composition. That being said, since he found it he should be able to keep it seing as he had it for quite some time already and it's only a keepsake for him, not an item to be sold for profit.[/QUOTE]
It's not like he found it laying on the side of the road. he found it in the rubble of a burnt down museum. If your house burnt down and I went and started going through the rubble and taking things that are valuable, would that be legal?
Pretty lucky of him finding one of 230 rocks in the world, let alone it being from the fucking moon.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;31059913]It's not like he found it laying on the side of the road. he found it in the rubble of a burnt down museum. If your house burnt down and I went and started going through the rubble and taking things that are valuable, would that be legal?[/QUOTE]
It's a rock that is practically worthless. The only value it has are bragging rights.
fuck putting it in a museum
theres plenty of moon rocks [b]ON THE MOON[/b]
Obviously he's going to use the moon rocks to make different kinds of gel to be used in his enrichment center.
[QUOTE=shatteredwindow;31059876]Really? I thought it was from Inception.[/QUOTE]
It's from Indiana Jones.
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