02-18-2013, 01:23 PM
(02-15-2013, 05:21 PM)Maggot Wrote: I would have thought it landed on your head with a joke like that buttercup.
If it had, I coulda been rich!
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(The meteor crash) also started a "meteorite rush" around the industrial city of Chelyabinsk, 950 miles east of Moscow, where groups of people have started combing through the snow and ice. One amateur space enthusiast estimated chunks could be worth up to $2,200 per gram — more than 40 times the current cost of gold.
http://news.msn.com/world/meteorite-rush...ce-of-gold
Panning for gold... Sifting for meteorite...
Future national security collateral: the trillion dollar meteorite coin?
Of course, I wouldn't normally invest on the word of an "amateur space enthusiast", but if that's a reliable enough source for MSN, what could go wrong?...
