[meteorite-list] Antarctica
From: Michael Farmer <meteoritehunter_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:32:03 2004 Message-ID: <00a901c3dd68$cd2d6f30$0200a8c0_at_S0031628003> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00A6_01C3DD2E.207D9100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable People, you would need hundreds of thousands of dollars to go hunting in = Antarctica. My mother is there now, has been for the last 4 months. It = is often 30 and 40 degres below zero (and this is summertime) and winds = of 150 kilometers per hour. This is on the coast, and it is far worse = inland. The prime meteorite hunting areas are hundreds of miles inland, = nowhere near the coast.=20 It would really be impossible without large aircraft to ferry you to the = hunting areas, as is exactly what they do to hunt meteorites.=20 FORGET it.=20 Mike Farmer ------=_NextPart_000_00A6_01C3DD2E.207D9100 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1276" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>People, you would need hundreds of = thousands of=20 dollars to go hunting in Antarctica. My mother is there now, has been = for the=20 last 4 months. It is often 30 and 40 degres below zero (and this is = summertime)=20 and winds of 150 kilometers per hour. This is on the coast, and it is = far worse=20 inland. The prime meteorite hunting areas are hundreds of miles inland, = nowhere=20 near the coast. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>It would really be impossible without = large=20 aircraft to ferry you to the hunting areas, as is exactly what they do = to hunt=20 meteorites. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>FORGET it. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Mike Farmer</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_00A6_01C3DD2E.207D9100-- Received on Sat 17 Jan 2004 09:14:27 PM PST |
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