Enterprising Russians Put Meteor Fragments For Sale On Local Auction Sites
In a shining example of true form capitalism, Russian scammers opportunists took advantage of the cosmic fury at the ongoing G-20 meeting in Moscow expressed by an attempted bombardment via meteor (which allegedly left the hole shown in the picture below), and are already seeking to find the level of equilibrium demand for cosmic commodities and market clearing prices by offering pieces of the meteor for sale on local websites. From Moscow Times: "Enterprising businessmen in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk lost no time in finding a way to capitalize on the meteor strike that shook the city on Friday morning. By early afternoon, several websites were already selling "fragments of meteorite." Two-centimeter fragments of the celestial body that hospitalized dozens and injured hundreds more in the Urals early on Friday were being offered for 500 rubles a piece by 2 p.m. Moscow time."
From Moscow Times.
"I'm selling it because it's useless to me. There are several scratch marks, but in general it's in excellent condition," wrote one Internet user calling himself Alexei and claiming to be from Magnitogorsk in the Chelyabinsk region. A picture of the "meteorite fragment" for sale can be found in the jewelry section of Avito.ru, an online store.
Another user called Dmitry was selling a 3.7-gram scrap of the meteor that he claimed to have found on the banks of lake Chebarkul, where the object reportedly landed, about 60 kilometers west of Chelyabinsk. He set no minimum price for bids.
The sales come despite warnings not to touch any fragments of the meteorite. Journalist Andrei Kondrashov, a local journalist, wrote on Twitter that an official had warned him not to touch the debris.
"Called Deputy Shingarkin: He notifies the Urals that there is no radiation, but debris must not be touched. Possible toxic contamination," he wrote.
And the actual ad on Russian auction site Avito.ru:
From Gazeta.ru:
The site Avito.ru came the announcement "a piece of the meteorite for sale, new. Sergey. Chelyabinsk ".
In the picture a man holding a piece of stone, which asks for 300 thousand rubles.
Another resident of Chelyabinsk left ad: "Buy a fragment of a meteorite Chelyabinsk, found today at the crash site, photo later skins. Questions by mail, the price is also negotiable. "
Also through the website Avito.ru Chelyabinsk residents have begun to offer services for glass replacement.
As of this posting, the ad had been taken down, but it was unclear that was before or after Buffett's pet rating agency, the one which would never dare offend the US department of "justice", Moody's, had already rated the seller AAAA++++ "would buy meteor fragments from seller again."
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but its inedible!
close call? the meteorite was a warning shot at the clowns at the G-20 meeting in Moscow....next time, they wont be so lucky.
Next time he will send Jesus for clearing money changers.
Goodness gracious great balls o' fire!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lidFipyLG8k
The Killer sure could play...
You can get a little bit of Iridium (a platinum group metal) in meteorites, Ir is about 1000 x more common in meteorites than in the Earth's crust.
Iridium also is common in Boris' garden produce and urine.
The Russian Meteorite and the Wormwood Connection:
http://thespiritoftruth.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-russian-meteorite-wormw...
Why bother to take delivery?
Meteor ETF
+1 Coffee thru the nose laughing on that one, SG..
SG, but will the paper Meteor ETF be any good if the sky falls down?
You mean when it moves to OTC pink sheets?
It's about the same. Like GM people will bid on it regardless.
Russian Meteorite:
If you can't hold it, you don't own it.
If you can hold it, you're probably dead.
Those fragments, if real (which we all doubt), are probably highly radioactive.
A little black paint on tungsten looks like meteorite. Everyone will be selling it.
My guess is that they are merely tungsten.
Foregt the radioactivity those fragments carry an exobiologic species of bacteria: "The Andromeda Strain."
In any case,
they are worth careful handling:
Meteorite Pricing
Considering they fell near the Mayak nuclear weapon factories, these meteorite fragments are probably the least radioactive objects in the area.
There are scratch and burn marks on this. I want my money back.
Meteorite chunks are not something bought from Russians over the net.
Neither are thyroid lumps, cancerous lesions, stool samples or other people's scabs.
"Get 'em while they're hot!"
Give me a breakdown of the metal(s) content in that sucker...
50% Sodomite
50% Gomarrahatz
Can I get another helping of Sodomite, please?
Do you want one inch at a time per hour or all at once?
Options, options, options...
Finally! Something from fucking outer space to spur economic fucking growth.
Holy fuck...Krugman is a fucking genius.
The earth just became about 1 pound bigger! That's some serious EXPANSION baby! That should allow a few more trillion to be printed easily!
What's crazy about all of this is that it is just a symptom of global warming. As part of our asteroid defense we need to invest trillions in global warming prevention....Just ask CNN...
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-anchor-asks-bill-nye-if-global-warming-ha...
1 pound bigger in *nominal* weight growth, but why let that stop the party?
They're probably just broken chunks of wolframite.
Say, isn't that related to tungsten?
You're trying to fool me....
Damn! That never crossed my mind!
I have a frament of that meteor that's shaped and looks exactly like a regular brick. I will sell it for $10,000. I may have other meteor fragments shaped like the regular stones you find in your garden too.
Cheap at 10k as we have be told that asteroids and meteorites are solid gold and platinum.
I'll have a trillion dollars - delivery to NY Fed. Call Timmah.
btw...
Pet rock anyone?
Actually REAL meteorites are rare and good pieces can be $50+ per gram.
It's incredible. Some pieces fell on my backyard here in Florida also. I put them on ebay already.
Good work sailor. Some of them fell on a gravel parking lot just down the street from where I work too. They look a bit like earth gravel except they're kind of gray colored instead of light gray. I scraped up a bucket full and plan to sell them at the local farmer's market on Saturday. If all goes well I'll go back and get some more. I'd say there's probably about 40 tons of 'em so I expect to do really well.
I'm doing the same with the fourth amendment
A broken window fallacy from outer space. Krugman approves.
Screw meteors. I prefer yellow rocks.
What is up with the crazy volume in the SPY????
It's probly due to all the expansion this meteor falling to earth just created!
Good question. Here are a couple of links to two candlevolume charts I just posted on my own blog. But you don't have to go there, I'll just post them here. This is a pretty impressive dump. The wider the candle, the greater the volume.
3 minute - http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=SPY&p=3&b=3&g=0&id=p72789006139
10 minute - http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=SPY&p=10&b=3&g=0&id=p88344361044
'Buy meteor chunk, $10,000 Rubles short time only get em while HOT!'
A new collateral value to take on debt to expand borrowing, thus creating GDP. Were have we heard about this Ponzi business model before?
Here's my short proof that God doesn't exist: Meteor hits earth. Lower Manhattan is still there. QED.
I could believe there is a god if a meteor hit the capitol building during the SOTU...
helLA miraculously avoids destruction, too. Gott mit uns!
No chance in Hell that hole in the ice was made by a low angle impact from a meteor.
Oh yeah, then why does it have a red and white rope around it?
Pfft...amateur.