Moonstone 14321

You know, when you talk about stones, there are colorful stones. 

Especially on the seashore. 

Have you ever picked pebbles on the seashore? There are green ones, red ones. Okay, there are black and white ones, or gray ones. But you can still find colorful stones on the seashore.

We have handfuls of them at home, for example. 

I don't know where my parents put them now, but when the children were little, they collected a lot of pebbles from the places we visited. They were all colorful. They didn't bother and brought them all the way here. We opened the suitcase and found them.

At the airport I was wondering why it was so heavy.

I'm sure it was the wife's work, she gave the children the idea, she also likes collecting interesting colored pebbles. I'm sure she gave the children this idea.

I say that, but I like pebbles too.

When I was little, in the first grade of middle school, our science teacher gave us all a task. 

We were to collect rocks from here and there. Then, in class, we were to find out what the stones we collected were. 

We were going to do various tests on the stones, you measure their weight, you put them in water and find their volume. So you calculate its density. There were also tests we did with acids and so on.  Some smelled like rotten eggs, some changed color when acid was dropped on them. I don't remember exactly what else was going on. 

In the end, we were trying to find out what kind of stones we collected. I remember researching the properties of different stones in books.

I even went to the carpenter and had a special box made for the stones, it was a box with eyes. I thought of putting the stones in the compartments. I wrote their names next to them.

A piece of marble, a piece of dalamite, this is basalt. And this? I don't know, it's just stone. 

Pebbles!

I remember working with stones for a long time afterwards. I kept collecting them even after we talked about them in class. 

I still like interesting stones, if I see an interesting stone on the ground, I pick it up and look at it. But I usually throw them away now, so I stopped collecting stones.

When we dug a well in Daçada, the workers dug a big round stone out of the well. I don't know how much it weighed. They put it right next to the well. It's quite a heavy stone, quite big. 

In our area there is soil up to a certain level, then clay, then sand. When you move from clay to sand, there are these big round stones under the ground. 

I wonder how they got it out of that well. 

Now it is buried a little bit in the ground next to the well, I probably couldn't even move it if I tried. It still stands next to the well like the first day. The lady had arranged other stones, big and small, next to it. 

You know, garden landscaping, just like her. She had also planted a rose there, right next to the stone. 

Last summer I looked and the rose had dried up. Now she planted a new rose in the same place, let's see if it will bloom this year.

At one point I had a truckload of sand brought to the dacha, and a lot of colored stones came out of the sand. 

Actually, the sand they brought was an unusual white, fine sand, like the sea sand we have here. 

But where can you find sea sand here? Wherever it came from, it was a white, fine sand. 

And the huge stones that came out of that sand are gathered on the other side of the dacha.

The other day I came across a video on the internet, they filmed the birth of the world from the moon. 

The blue world was rising from the horizon of the moon. The surface of the moon is also gray, for some reason there is no color.

I remember I think they brought a lot of stones from the moon. 

Or had they never been to the moon? 

Do you think those live broadcasts were lies?

Maybe those Americans fooled us, huh? What do you think?

There is a really big mass of people who believe this, that is, who believe that the moon was never visited, or in other words, who don't believe that the moon was visited!

I looked on the internet, there are a lot of necklaces for sale, they are called moonstone necklaces.

Most of them are made of colorful stones. 

Some are oval, just white pebbles. The only difference is that there are some spots on it like on the surface of the moon. As I said, it's actually a pebble, but it's been turned into a jackal stone, and jackals are passing it off as moon stones. 

And gullible people believe and probably pay a lot of money for a pebble called moonstone. 

I wonder if anyone really believes that these stones come from the moon? 

There are even moonstones that light up at night. 

There are also crescent-shaped stones. Now they have made whatever color you want, it is possible to find all kinds of bijouterie products in the shape of a crescent moon. These are also called moon stones.

Really, isn't the half-moon one of the phases of the moon? 

Why don't you think there are necklaces in the shape of a half moon? 

Why do we always think of the crescent moon when we think of the moon?

Even our flag has a crescent moon. I'll have to look into this one day. What could be the reason?

By the way, the jewelry world is very interested in different stones. 

And some of them are quite pricey. Diamonds are the most prized gemstones, rubies and emeralds are also very valuable. There are other stones, amethyst, beryl, malachite, agate, sapphire, topaz, zircon... And many more. There are so many precious stones.

I bought a ring for my wife once, from the city of Kazan in Russia, the capital of Tatarstan. It was a ring with a blue stone, she knows the name of the stone, but believe me, I can't remember what it was now. I think it might have been a sapphire. It was a precious stone. The lady still wears it on her finger.

Kazan has good gold craftsmanship, I don't know if there is any gold nearby. It doesn't matter though, even if there isn't, gold must be coming from somewhere. 

The important thing is craftsmanship.

Kuyum, I think I wrote something about jewelry once. 

It is a Turkish word. 

It comes from koymak, cast metal workmanship. They actually melt the gold and then pour it, that's why we call them jewelers.

As far as I know, precious stones are found in some places in Turkey. 

Or maybe I should say special stones.

Oltu stone for example, I think Oltu stone is a very beautiful stone, it is jet black. They usually make rosaries and such from oltu stone. But they also make other things.

You know, Oltu is in Erzurum. Erzurum is the city where I started primary school. So it has a special place for me. 

When my brother was in the army, he found some stones on the roadside. He did his military service in Sarıkamış. Something was shining in the sun on the roadside, he said it caught my attention. He stopped and looked at it, then collected some. 

Dark smoky colored volcanic stones. Actually, you could even call them glass. I mean, the shards were sharp like broken glass.

When I was little, there used to be cassette tapes, they used to have clear plastic containers. I remember my brother put these stones in them.

They were like glass shards, but they were close to black, smoked colored stones. When held up to the light, you could see that they were transparent. 

Who knows where those stones are now. Certainly not in Moscow.

For example, the stalactite stalagmites I found in a secret underground cave during the construction of the Atatürk dam are in Bursa, maybe those smoked stones are also in Bursa. They were concreting the underground caves in the dam. If you could see it, the cave I entered was actually a marvelous natural wonder.

I never understood why stones are valued so much. I love stones too, but what I don't understand is why they are valued so much.

Diamonds, for example, why do you think they are so expensive? 

Believe me, I can never understand. It's just a stone; do you think diamonds are any different from pebbles?

Okay, it's very hard, it's transparent, it sparkles when it's worked. All these are good qualities.

But diamond shines if you shine light on it, just so you know. It doesn't shine on its own. 

Some people think it shines on its own. 

However, in rings, they also make a tin-like coating under the stone to reflect the light. 

The incoming light is reflected colorfully from the prismatically cut diamond surfaces. Of course, these twinkling lights dazzle. And you know when a gleam catches your eye for a moment? It catches your attention involuntarily. Maybe it is this desire for attention that makes diamonds so valuable.  

Okay, diamonds come out of who knows how deep in the ground. It is hard to extract, it was formed over who knows how many thousands of years with all that pressure. That's why it's so hard. 

And partly because it's so hard to mine, it's expensive.

Although I think in South Africa, I think they find diamonds in the river or something, I saw it in a movie. 

But they are hard to find. 

As far as I know, there are diamonds in Kamchatka in Russia. 

But you can make the same thing out of glass, especially now with the technology, they can make artificial diamonds. It is no different from the natural ones.

Even the natural ones can have hairline cracks in them, these don't have any cracks. 

So what is the reason why diamonds are so expensive?

Baak, he bought me a solitaire! The real one, not a fake. 

She stretches her hand forward and looks at herself to see how the ring looks on her finger. Young girls who have just been proposed to are very happy when they receive a solitaire ring from their beloved. 

They immediately show it to their girlfriends, their faces light up, they can't contain themselves, they share their joy with their girlfriends. Maybe they show off a little. I guess showing off is part of the nature of the job. 

After all, family is sacred. Every young girl dreams of having a family. I respect that.

On the other hand, on the other hand, it seems to me that they are fitting for a piece of stone.

I don't understand why metals like gold and silver are valued so much. 

It's just metal. It shines a little bit, maybe it doesn't oxidize, that's all.

Okay, it is normal for everything to have a certain value. But I think it's ridiculous that gold and silver are valued so much.

It's inedible if you starve.

Really, are the stones brought from the moon also colored? 

I mean, are they similar to the moon stones sold in the market? 

Does anyone know?

It is said that the moon actually broke away from the earth, so whatever type of stones are normally found on earth, there should be similar ones on the moon.

But if you look at the surface of the moon from the images taken, it looks as if the moon is gray and there is no other color at all.

Maybe the last images we have of the moon were taken with a black and white camera, that's why it looks like that to me. 

After all, did they have color cameras the last time they were there? 

I don't know now!

If we were to go there today, maybe we would see it in color. Isn't it possible?  

Maybe there are rivers flowing, a lush green nature, a colorful environment, date palms, fig trees, gold and silver plates with lots of fruit, and the dates walking around, all half naked. Fragrant smells...

No, no, this was heaven. Why would there be water on the moon? It doesn't even have air, let alone a palm tree.

It's just a gray place with no color at all.

We were going to go to the moon, I think it was this year, or was it later? Anyway, I forgot whether we were going to go and hit the moon hard or what.

From now on, we'll bring moonstones by the bucketful, and everyone will wear a moonstone necklace around their neck.

Instead of tea, our elders throw moonstones from the bus.

Should we have built a highway instead of going to the moon with a rocket?  

A four-lane, two-way, two-way. What do you think?

Jokes aside, I was really curious, what color are the stones from the moon?

I looked a bit on the internet.

In the cover picture, you see a sample of a stone taken from the moon during the fourth moon landing with Apollo 15 in 1971. 

There is also a stone from the third landing, Apollo 14. 

This white moon rock is 14321. 

This white one was the third largest stone brought from the moon, weighing 9 kilograms. They also named this stone "Big Bertha" in honor of the big howitzer used by the Germans in the First World War. 

Unlike the previous two landings, the Americans decided to do a little science on this expedition, so they stayed on the moon a little longer on the fourth expedition. They collected a lot of rocks every time they went.

They also took a wheeled vehicle that could move on the moon with them when they went with Apollo 15. So they moved around the moon a lot. Maybe the vehicle is still there. 

Look, if we build a highway, it will be easy to bring the vehicle.

So don't believe in those conspiracy theories, they are fooling you that the moon has not been visited, I am talking to those who still believe that the moon has not been visited. They are making fun of you. Otherwise, they know very well that the moon has been visited.

When it comes to believing, recently in a street interview someone was talking about an ore in the Bosphorus that was not allowed to be mined. The poor guy believed. However, it was a social experiment, a claim put forward by a research assistant to see if anyone would believe. But there were believers!

The reason for not going to the moon again all these years after the last visit is that the cost of going is more than the benefits. 

They probably realized that the stones brought back were not special stones. They said, "You can't go to all that expense to collect rocks all the time," and they canceled their lunar program. 

They've already done enough of the experiments they were supposed to do. Why would they go for nothing?

For a while I read that there is He3 (helium 3) gas in the atmosphere, which is very little on the moon. There was even news that they were planning to build a compression station on the moon and bring this gas to Earth. 

As far as I understand, helium 3 can be used as an energy source. But there has been no news about this project for a long time. There must be a reason, maybe they did the math and decided it wasn't worth it and gave up.  

However, I think I read some news somewhere recently that the moon expeditions will start again in the near future. I think it was a news related to Mars travel. They were going to establish a base on the moon and go from there or something.

If it is true, it is definitely Elon Musk's idea again. 

He was obsessed with Mars travel.

I guess when you are this rich, you become a bit silly. 

Of course, I guess these are distant dreams for us. Let's touch the moon first and see what we can do. 

Maybe then we can say, why bother with rockets and rockets, let's build a highway to the moon. We are a nation of builders, we can't build a highway to the moon!

Or like Temel, maybe we can go to the sun in the cool of the evening. What do you think? It must be cool in the evening, right?

But TOGG is good, I can't say anything about it. 

Although how they will build the infrastructure for the electricity filling stations is a mystery! Not to mention the electricity prices. I wonder how much it costs to fill a tank at today's prices?

You know I am in favor of hydrogen fueled vehicles. Not only me, the world seems to have turned in favor of hydrogen-fueled vehicles. The world is progressing rapidly in this regard.

Actually, I think it should be all of them. 

Let people make their own choices. There should even be air compression vehicles.

Maybe Mr. Kılıçdaroğlu will say, "Come on, let's make hydrogen-fueled vehicles in this century. 

Who knows?

Today, some memories, some stones, some moon, some other things.

I think it's time to wish you a good Sunday. Let's end it here, shall we?

Love and respect to everyone from Moscow