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The Cape Canaveral area, being the site of so much history, including early historic sites and a treasure wreck or two, provides another class of artifacts. I'm talking about space exploration artifacts. Space exploration artifacts occasionally show up on the Treasure Coast, most commonly including the relatively common melted bits of titanium, which I've discussed in the past, including instructions for identifying titanium. Occasionally more interesting items show up.
The recent Cooper's Treasure TV programs suggested another type of connection between space exploration and treasure hunting. This blog's posts concerning the questionable trustworthiness of that show received a lot of attention.
On July 20th, Sotheby's will hold their Space Exploration auction, which among a long list of artifacts, includes the flown flight plan from the Apollo 13 mission. That flight, which encountered serious problems and could have ended very badly, was the subject of a movie.
As I've said before, you can not separate politics from treasure hunting. In 2012 President Obama signed a law concerning the ownership of space exploration artifacts. (I won't get into the Odyssey Marine issue again, in which the courts ruled to give tons of silver recovered by Odyssey Marine to Spain, reportedly as part of a deal to obtain a valuable painting for a U. S. citizen.) Here is how the Sothebys site describes that law concerning ownership of space exploration artifacts and how that law relates to the flight plan.
Here is the link for more information related to the flight plan and various incidents that occurred during the mission.
http://www.sothebys.com/en/news-video/blogs/all-blogs/sotheby-s-at-large/2017/06/houston-problem-here-flown-apollo-13-flight-plan.html?cmp=email_N09759___selects_space_hero3_30-jun-2017
You might also want to browse the auction lots. I found them interesting.
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The most recent blog poll has concluded and the results are in.
As you can see from the bar chart below, the respondents generally go more by analysis and observation than intuition. That isn't surprising considering the amount of time I spend on analysis of beach conditions and other things. Only one of the 45 respondents said that they went almost exclusively by intuition and hunches.
On the other end of the spectrum, 4 respondents said they rely almost exclusively on analysis.
The vast majority of those that responded, appear to use some mixture of analysis and intuition. Overall the results were definitely skewed in the direction of analysis and observation over intuition.
Here are the results expressed in a bar chart. I reordered the categories from how they were ordered when the poll was presented, and also shortened the category labels. The numbers in the chart are percentages.
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Sunday I watched a series of TV programs on the Dare Stones and the Lost Roanoke colony. Pretty good series.
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I've been working on another topic for a few days, but it just won't seem to come together.
There is no tropical weather in the Atlantic or Gulf right now. No significant changes in beach conditions are expected real soon either. There will be a little bump in the surf around Thursday, but not much.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
As you can see from the bar chart below, the respondents generally go more by analysis and observation than intuition. That isn't surprising considering the amount of time I spend on analysis of beach conditions and other things. Only one of the 45 respondents said that they went almost exclusively by intuition and hunches.
On the other end of the spectrum, 4 respondents said they rely almost exclusively on analysis.
The vast majority of those that responded, appear to use some mixture of analysis and intuition. Overall the results were definitely skewed in the direction of analysis and observation over intuition.
Here are the results expressed in a bar chart. I reordered the categories from how they were ordered when the poll was presented, and also shortened the category labels. The numbers in the chart are percentages.
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Sunday I watched a series of TV programs on the Dare Stones and the Lost Roanoke colony. Pretty good series.
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I've been working on another topic for a few days, but it just won't seem to come together.
There is no tropical weather in the Atlantic or Gulf right now. No significant changes in beach conditions are expected real soon either. There will be a little bump in the surf around Thursday, but not much.
Happy hunting,
TreasureGuide@comcast.net
