Comments on: Museum's "moon rock" is just a rock http://boingboing.net/2009/08/27/museums-moon-rock-is.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 14:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/27/museums-moon-rock-is.html#comment-574985 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-574985 I wonder what happened to the original. I bet you can find it on the black market. I wonder what happened to the original. I bet you can find it on the black market.

]]> By: dragonfrog http://boingboing.net/2009/08/27/museums-moon-rock-is.html#comment-574993 dragonfrog Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-574993 This is a great discovery! With any luck, this rock can be cross-referenced to geographic survey data to pinpoint the location of the sound-stage where the original lunar landing took place. This is a great discovery! With any luck, this rock can be cross-referenced to geographic survey data to pinpoint the location of the sound-stage where the original lunar landing took place.

]]> By: funkyavocado http://boingboing.net/2009/08/27/museums-moon-rock-is.html#comment-575000 funkyavocado Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-575000 People in Amsterdam getting stoned. Go figure. People in Amsterdam getting stoned. Go figure.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/27/museums-moon-rock-is.html#comment-575003 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-575003 That Middendorf. Such a joker. That Middendorf. Such a joker.

]]> By: Marcel http://boingboing.net/2009/08/27/museums-moon-rock-is.html#comment-575015 Marcel Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-575015 In my view, this only adds to the objects provenance. Now we can put a sign next to the stone saying: Moon rock given by US ambassador to dutch government which turned out to be totally fake! I like it a lot! O, and btw, Van Gogh?! Never really existed. We so totally made that guy up. In my view, this only adds to the objects provenance. Now we can put a sign next to the stone saying: Moon rock given by US ambassador to dutch government which turned out to be totally fake!

I like it a lot!

O, and btw, Van Gogh?! Never really existed. We so totally made that guy up.

]]> By: trr http://boingboing.net/2009/08/27/museums-moon-rock-is.html#comment-575041 trr Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-575041 Hmmm...petrified wood...SW USA...southern Nevada...Area 51...it all makes sense now. Hmmm…petrified wood…SW USA…southern Nevada…Area 51…it all makes sense now.

]]> By: Ilovechocolatemilk http://boingboing.net/2009/08/27/museums-moon-rock-is.html#comment-575043 Ilovechocolatemilk Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-575043 I can see this as potential fuel for those dumb conspiracy theories you hear about the moon landing being faked. I can see this as potential fuel for those dumb conspiracy theories you hear about the moon landing being faked.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/27/museums-moon-rock-is.html#comment-575090 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-575090 It's not a Moon rock that turned out to simply be petrified wood...it's a Moon rock that turned out to be petrified wood from the fucking Moon! HOLY SHIT! BIG difference. It’s not a Moon rock that turned out to simply be petrified wood…it’s a Moon rock that turned out to be petrified wood from the fucking Moon! HOLY SHIT!

BIG difference.

]]> By: dougp http://boingboing.net/2009/08/27/museums-moon-rock-is.html#comment-575104 dougp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-575104 My guess is someone switched the rocks before it was donated to the museum. My guess is someone switched the rocks before it was donated to the museum.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/27/museums-moon-rock-is.html#comment-575626 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-575626 The sub headline is going to give NASA headaches. Our own research and chemical analysis of lunar samples shows that we did land on the Moon because our samples match the Apollo sample chemical composition with a good figure of merit. Although NASA like other agencies does censor and scientists are willing to go the extra mile and commit scientific misconduct and fraud for their respective employer it not always the case as in the one below. http://www.bccmeteorites.com/misconduct-planetary.html The sub headline is going to give NASA headaches. Our own research and chemical analysis of lunar samples shows that we did land on the Moon because our samples match the Apollo sample chemical composition with a good figure of merit. Although NASA like other agencies does censor and scientists are willing to go the extra mile and commit scientific misconduct and fraud for their respective employer it not always the case as in the one below.

http://www.bccmeteorites.com/misconduct-planetary.html

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/27/museums-moon-rock-is.html#comment-575377 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-575377 "It's a nondescript, pretty-much-worthless stone," Gee, that goes equally well for the other moon rocks. Really ought to have spent the money feeding people outside the military-industrial complex. “It’s a nondescript, pretty-much-worthless stone,”

Gee, that goes equally well for the other moon rocks.

Really ought to have spent the money feeding people outside the military-industrial complex.

]]> By: philipb http://boingboing.net/2009/08/27/museums-moon-rock-is.html#comment-575122 philipb Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-575122 Wouldn't be the first fake in a Dutch museum. http://www.meegeren.net/ Wouldn’t be the first fake in a Dutch museum.

http://www.meegeren.net/

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/27/museums-moon-rock-is.html#comment-579220 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-579220 I'm sure no one believed that a false rock, delivered in 1969, would fuel these hoax idiots claims today. It was awefully stupid on somebody's part...weather it was with Middendorfs' knowledge or not...who knows? I’m sure no one believed that a false rock, delivered in 1969, would fuel these hoax idiots claims today. It was awefully stupid on somebody’s part…weather it was with Middendorfs’ knowledge or not…who knows?

]]> By: Lobster http://boingboing.net/2009/08/27/museums-moon-rock-is.html#comment-575150 Lobster Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-575150 "The museum had vetted the moon rock early on by checking with NASA" Why do I imagine a guy from NASA on the phone saying, "Sure it's real!" while making jerk-off gestures to his co-worker? “The museum had vetted the moon rock early on by checking with NASA”

Why do I imagine a guy from NASA on the phone saying, “Sure it’s real!” while making jerk-off gestures to his co-worker?

]]> By: Halloween Jack http://boingboing.net/2009/08/27/museums-moon-rock-is.html#comment-575667 Halloween Jack Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-575667 It wasn't a rock... it was a rock... lobster! It wasn’t a rock… it was a rock… lobster!

]]> By: mujadaddy http://boingboing.net/2009/08/27/museums-moon-rock-is.html#comment-575427 mujadaddy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-575427 "We're whittlers on the moon; We spit in a spittoon; Or at least we could, but there ain't no wood, So we sing a whittlin' tune" “We’re whittlers on the moon;
We spit in a spittoon;
Or at least we could,
but there ain’t no wood,
So we sing a whittlin’ tune”

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/08/27/museums-moon-rock-is.html#comment-574939 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-574939 It is only worthless here. On the moon it's a rare Earth rock. It is only worthless here. On the moon it’s a rare Earth rock.

]]> By: nanuq http://boingboing.net/2009/08/27/museums-moon-rock-is.html#comment-574942 nanuq Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-574942 Finding petrified wood on the moon really <i>would</i> have been a spectacular discovery. Finding petrified wood on the moon really would have been a spectacular discovery.

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