If you have a moon rock you want to sell, be warned: NASA doesn’t approve. A woman in California was trying to do that exact thing until she showed it to an undercover NASA investigator (Yup, they have those).
See, moon rocks are national treasures and cannot be sold. Otherwise, you’ll probably have NASA on your arse, just like this woman had NASA investigating her for months. [SF Gate]
AWOL
Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 1:18 PMWhat the hell? Just… Just… What the hell America?
Cave Johnson
Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 1:46 PMThey do, however, make excellent portal conductors.
We’re done here.
David
Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 5:51 PMOr in other words of you have a piece of moon rock you think will fetch 1.7 million, then immigrate to Spain and sell it from there.
Damonii
Sunday, May 22, 2011 at 1:42 AM“The bean counters literally told me we could not afford to buy 7 dollars worth of moon rocks, much less 70 million. Bought ‘em anyway. Ground ‘em up, mixed em into a gel. And guess what? Ground up moon rocks are pure poison. I am deathly ill. Still, it turns out they’re a great portal conductor”
Franz
Sunday, May 22, 2011 at 10:54 AMIf it was genuine, and it wasn’t stolen, then there is no problem selling it.
thatstheway
Sunday, May 22, 2011 at 7:07 PMNASA wants it back, before anyone realises that it’s just a rock painted grey – and it proves that they never actually went to the moon.
Demitri
Monday, May 23, 2011 at 2:40 PMWas a real moon rock?
I have a mars rock i want to sell, just give me a sec i need to dig it up from my backyard. Come on gizmodo, we need more information here. Did work for nasa and actual had a moon rock? Did she steal it?
Dejiridoo
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 4:35 AMI actually wrote a short story about this, entitled “The Moon Rock Thief”, about a Nigerian scientist at NASA who is lured back to his homeland–provided he takes something with him. It’s the first chapter of a Pushcart prize nominated longer work. Crazy that something I had imagined would turn out to be partially true!
I just uploaded the short story onto the Kindle store.
Hope you enjoy it.
–Deji
Mysterio
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 10:14 AMAre moonrocks poisonous?