Barringer and his company lost $600,000 on prospecting the crater,
Should we really be prospecting in a natural wonder? No, we should not. And, had the meteorite struck something valuable, there is little doubt that the crater would have been damaged irreparably by the mining operations.
So much for private ownership of natural wonders, Dr. Randall, you miserable misbegotten excuse for a human being.
If private ownership were so awesome, we would apply it to human beings. But we outlawed slavery about 150 years ago, in large part because the private ownership did not work out well for the owned.
