[Rockhounds] Arkansas diamond hoax

[Sandra B. Gee]

Yes, it's from Wikipedia, but what the hey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boji_stone

People really believe this sort of stuff?

Wow....

Sandra

--- DonH <donhalterman at verizon.net> wrote:

> Ted Kowalski wrote:
> 
> > Well now, I'm confused. 
> > 
> > Are you well respected geologists and
> mineralologists telling me that there
> > are rocks that glow in the dark, independently?  .
> . .
> 
> > I just don't have the same reaction to the words
> "glow in the dark". 
> 
> 
> Well I'm just a regular guy, but I was confused
> regarding his intended 
> meaning.  I don't want to beat the dead horse too
> much but the context 
> and semantics could have been taken either way,
> especially given the 
> content of all his ranting up to that point,
> regarding her being 
> gullible.  As a serious collector I also cringe at
> the term "glow in the 
> dark" when referring to fluorescent minerals, but
> then again, they do 
> indeed glow when you hit them with UV, and I think
> most, if not all, 
> people realize that it is the UV that excites them
> and they are not 
> spontaneously glowing.  That point was made obvious
> throughout the show. 
>   She sounded like a doofus when she said it, and I
> rolled my eyes upon 
> hearing it, but I was much more concerned about the
> relentless focus on 
> dollar value vs. fun, friendship, and science.
> 
> I suppose in the long run it was his highly stylized
> and somewhat vague 
> rendering of the point that threw me off.  And since
> I don't know 
> anything about him, it was hard to tell what he was
> trying to say.  But 
> I'll take Tim's word that the fellow knows his
> stuff.
> 
> OK, enough of that...
> 
> Don
> 
> 
> 
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