Re: Your not going to like this...

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

    You're quite right.  I don't like it at all.  Let's hope this doesn't 
encourage a bunch of really sloppy greedy guys to lease land and strip-mine 
it for fossils.  They would probably go bankrupt anyway, and leave 
scientific devastation in the process.  Very bad idea from any angle.
    If rich people want fossil vertebrate decor, they can just as easily 
afford fossil casts (which would also be easier to keep clean).  And if they 
want fossil invertebrate decor, there are plenty of things like polished 
ammonite tables--- the real thing, but at least common ammonite rocks are 
nearly as rare and scientifically valuable as vertebrate-bearing rock.
    AN IDEA:  Maybe some science-friendly entrepreneur could produce 
lower-priced fossil replicas (fossil eggs, dinosaur furniture, or whatever). 
 Lower prices and easier to keep clean---they could dramatically slash the 
demand for real fossils and maybe even make a little money.  Or am I being 
overly optimistic?
          -----  Ken Kinman
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> From: "Paleotracks"
> Subject: Your not going to like this...
> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 21:20:47 -0800
>
> Just ran across this extreme of "home decor"
>
> http://www.nationalpost.com/artslife/life/story.html?f=/stories/20020108/1065251.html



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