Huge, rare meteorite found. Crime to turn it into a coffee table?

Let’s say I was absurdly wealthy and wanted this meteorite as a conversation piece and I have a specially created glass table top made and turn it into a coffee table.

Would that be wrong? Would the floor boards of normal house support it?

Huge meteorite discovered underground in Kansas

Well, I’d recommend against it, if it contains any radioactive elements. Unless you want two-headed children, in which case, have fun. :slight_smile:

If that would prevent new scientific data from being learned about it, I’d say it’s a bit wrong. If it’s yours it’s yours though.

If these types are common enough that nothing new can be learned, then I’d have no objection.

Crime? Heavens no! It’d be crazy fun.

Well, if you own it you can do whatever you want with it. It’s not a crime. But if scientists could learn something useful from the rareness of the meteorite, it would be kinda selfish to hang onto it.

I doubt it would contain any more radioactive elements than you would normally find in the ground anyhow. Probably less.

It could still crack open and release The Blob though.

Why not turn it into a coffee table and donate it to a museum? All you’d have to do would be mount some legs on the pointy end and slice the top off with a giant saw. Wouldn’t this be a little more practical for stacking copies of the Chicago Reader than something all lumpy?

It would be a crime because that thing would make a fugly coffee table.

If it can be sliced into ½" slabs, do that, give 2 to science and make fancy coffee tables out of the rest and sell them at @ $1 million a pop.

Wow, is that really a slice of meteorite? Fascinating… to think of the kind of forces that must be present (or lacking!) to allow something like that to form!

Hell yeah, make it into a coffee table! Let’s see the cats and dog try to knock that one over.

A coffee table would be a waste. Now, using it as part of some kind of Stonehenge-type temple or altar so that thousands of years from now future archeologists are left wondering WTF?? folks in the early 21st Century were up to, that is genius!

Is it green? Does it glow?

Because if it does, I’d like to make you an offer.

If this thing is real, and it is made of Atmospherium, do you know what this could menan for science? This could mean actual advances in the field of science.

-Mr. Kent. Ms. Lane. Welcome! Come on in.
-Thank you, Mr. Luthor.
-Please, its’ Lex. I just wanted to show off my new meteor table. Green and red stone! Rare, isn’t it! Are you okay, Mr. Kent? You look pale. Ms. Lane, did you grow a third eye?

Worse issue of Lois Lane ever.

I would say that if it can be bought at these prices, then you can probably do what ever you want with it. But surely, I’d give the science community a little piece of it, then make a make a gargoyle out of the rest of it.

I read an article a few years back about guys like the man in this article. They make a nice living by finding and selling meteorites to museums. Some ‘collectors’ cut the rocks into thin slices and sell parts to different places.

Should you want a somewhat smaller chunk of meteorite, check out This site

You can even get a ring made out of a meteorite. (scroll down a bit)

“The Whately’s problems and the Blasted Heath began when they turned that eldritch meteorite into a coffee table.It displayed new spectral lines not recognized by Science, and visitors from the University pointed out its unusual property, calling it “squamous” and “nauseating”, but Albert Whately said he liked the color, and thought it a real conversation-starter.”