[meteorite-list] Dam Hammer

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:13:58 -0500
Message-ID: <tkh2s4hu3f58u8r1sstlu3rf36cl3k4gc8_at_4ax.com>

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:57:59 -0400, you wrote:

>Michael Blood has an opinion, not a rule. If a meteorite lands in my yard or
>a baseball field does it qualify as a "hammer" since these places were man
>made? Over use of a term for marketing (not saying Steve had done this here)
>is simply stupid!

IMHO, the fault lies not in the use of the term, but the existance of it. The
fact that you can pick and choose which human created, human maintained objects
(which would quickly fall into disrepair and soon after fall apart without
peirodic maintainance) qualify as "hammer worthy" and which don't are the fault
of the ambiguity of the term, not of those using the term. Or else, someone
needs to compound an official, authoritative list of what an artifact needs to
be built from before something hitting it can become a hammering. And the shape
of the thing would have to be accounted for, too-- if a earthern dam doesn't
count, how about a mud-roofed hut somewhere?
Received on Wed 18 Mar 2009 03:13:58 PM PDT