What happened Irelands Moon Rocks

starn · 2009-01-02 02:29:20

Apparently in the 1970s Richard Nixon gave away 135 lunar rocks sample to countries as a sign of good will. Ireland was one of the countries anywhere know what happened the Irish rocks. Someone was caught out a fe years back by US customs agents trying to flog it. The guy looking for it, was looking for nearly 5 million a…

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#32 24-01-2009 11:05PM

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nummnutts wrote: »

I'd say it had something to do with them fecking Greeks.

Feckin Greeks,
They invented gayness.

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#33 24-01-2009 11:58PM

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what size is it? i'm imagining some tiny pebble that was stuck in the groves of an astronauts shoe.

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#34 25-01-2009 12:04AM

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Zaph wrote: »

It used to be on display for years in the old aviation museum that was in Dublin airport. Don't know what happened to it after they closed the museum.

When irish scientists realised it was made on earth "in the mid 90's" they removed it in disgust ,apparently true and it never made it to another museum again. Ah Hemmm not a conspiracy??;) Ahhh Run To Da hills:D

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#35 25-01-2009 01:06AM

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There's slides of it in UCC, about 5 iirc. Extremely pretty under the microscope, all sorts of shades of colours overlapping each other.

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