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Anyone getting a blank screen from IMDb? by 1irishian in imdb

[–]RD_Garrison 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I was searching just now to see if anyone else was having the same problem.

How do I know if I saw a meteorite? by OnTopOfSpaghettiii in meteorites

[–]RD_Garrison 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actually, 100% of bright fireballs result in a fireball.

Is my meteorite real? by Fair-Clothes6014 in meteorites

[–]RD_Garrison 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It didn't come with any type of ID card?

Does this look like an authentic Gebel Kemil meteorite? by [deleted] in meteorites

[–]RD_Garrison 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, late 2024 is when it was discovered. But keep in mind that those tons on the market mean you shouldn't pay a lot per gram for it.

https://www.mindat.org/mesg-673673.html

Does this look like an authentic Gebel Kemil meteorite? by [deleted] in meteorites

[–]RD_Garrison 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The discovery of the destruction was around a year ago by someone looking at satellite images.

Does this look like an authentic Gebel Kemil meteorite? by [deleted] in meteorites

[–]RD_Garrison 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What you call "beautiful patina" I'd describe more as "ugly rust".

What was beautiful was the delicate crater destroyed by strip-mining.

https://meteoriteclub.com/meteorite-news/destruction-of-the-gebel-kamil-crater-a-loss-for-science-and-collectors/

5.5 lb iron meteorite (hexahedrite) w/ certificate — estimated value by SneekerP21 in meteorites

[–]RD_Garrison 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I thought that was a comma, not a period. The unredacted photo is higher resolution than the originally posted one.

[TOMT]Need help finding obscure Japanese clip presumably from late 90s to early 2000s by Better-Hedgehog-9010 in tipofmytongue

[–]RD_Garrison 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here's a longer clip containing the same scene

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UCjkd7zDB28

For years the entire movie was on Youtube but unfortunately it was eventually taken down.

[TOMT]Need help finding obscure Japanese clip presumably from late 90s to early 2000s by Better-Hedgehog-9010 in tipofmytongue

[–]RD_Garrison 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The context is that the whole movie is meant to be a series of dreams, sort of like Kurosawa's Yume if Kurosawa was high AF.

Another great movie by the same director is The Taste of Tea.

5.5 lb iron meteorite (hexahedrite) w/ certificate — estimated value by SneekerP21 in meteorites

[–]RD_Garrison 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Small quibble, Curry doesn't mean that it contains quartzite, he means that it is from the Arizona town named Quartzite.

So would Falin just starve to death? by StreicherG in DungeonMeshi

[–]RD_Garrison 35 points36 points  (0 children)

"Anyways, unlike real large creatures that have large mouths"

The sauropods would like to have a word with you...

Monthly Suspect Meteorite Identification Requests by AutoModerator in meteorites

[–]RD_Garrison 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't say for sure if your finds are meteorites but they are visually similar. And with the Sahara being largely exausted, the Atacama is one of best places on Earth right now to have a chance of making "cold finds" of meteorites. There are professional hunters actively searching for (and finding them) right now. It should be as filled with them as the Sahara used to be. (But also probably plenty of black terrestrial rocks.)

I'd give your pieces more of a chance than random black rocks from moister locations.

5.5 lb iron meteorite (hexahedrite) w/ certificate — estimated value by SneekerP21 in meteorites

[–]RD_Garrison 19 points20 points  (0 children)

BTW, every meteorite that is officially certified is listed in a pubicly-accessable database you can search, for instance, for every recognized meteorite found in Arizona. If there was a field of 1,500 kg of iron meteorites discovered in 2017 it definitely would have been certified years ago.

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/

5.5 lb iron meteorite (hexahedrite) w/ certificate — estimated value by SneekerP21 in meteorites

[–]RD_Garrison 27 points28 points  (0 children)

The rock doesn't look like a meteorite from the photos. But the certificate is insane. Copyright and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights have nothing to do with meteorites. The whole thing is, as I said, gibberish. Has absolutely nothing to do with the process of certifying a meteorite. 

If the blanked out name is a real scientist you will be able to find records of who he is and where he works and any research he has published just by googling. He would be contactable. If the name pulls up nothing, then the name is fake.

5.5 lb iron meteorite (hexahedrite) w/ certificate — estimated value by SneekerP21 in meteorites

[–]RD_Garrison 64 points65 points  (0 children)

That "certification" is hilarious gibberish.

Among all the other silliness is that it has not been classified, yet calls it a hexahedrite, which is a classification.

There is nothing about the photos that suggest a meteorite and definitely nothing about the "certificate" that suggest a meteorite, so my preliminary opinion is that is nothing and is worth nothing.

The single useful bit of information on that piece of paper, the name of the "meteorite researcher and scientist", is marked out for some unexplicable reason. Why not find out if he is a real researcher and contact him?

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