If A Meteor Falls Upon Your House In Germany?

Topic came up this week (in the Pfalz).

Various German federal states have somewhat differing regulations regarding how such finds are handled. In most cases, finders are allowed to keep meteorites, provided they have fallen on their property or public land.

If you were to sell to the state?  Prices go between one euro per gram and 5,000 euros per gram....depending on the composition, condition, and whether the find is fresh or not.

Some German states have a rule....stipulating that the find must be of special scientific interest....which it automatically becomes state property, with some cash as a reward.

Polling For Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (State Elecction Sep 2026)

Polling released in the past 2 or  3 weeks:

AfD, 39-percent

CDU, 15-percent

SPD, 13-percent

Linke, 12-percent

Greens, 6-percent

BSW, 7-percent

Remaining 9-percent spilt up.

If AfD were to get near 50-percent....no coalition is required.  Key question...can BSW  and Greens stay above 5-percent each...or if both were to falter to 4.9-percent or less....the numbers benefit AfD.

10 Mar: Germany: 7 Things

 1.  Turmoil brewing in Baden-Wuerttemberg over election results.  After counting votes and doing the seat analysis....Greens get 56 seats, and CDU gets 56 seats....with SPD getting 10 seats and AfD getting 35.

Coalition matter?  Well...the ONLY combo is Greens and CDU together.   CDU suggesting power-sharing....which the Greens say....NO, there was an election and we got the most votes....so we get the Premier-President seat and lead on  most state cabinet posts.  

If no coalition is achieved in 30 days? There would be another election....probably in June. 

What might happen?  The CDU might sit down and agree on some things.....listing ten things that the Greens promised....as a NO-GO promise.   That would make the Green Party incredibly weak for five years in the state. 

2.  Scandal brewing?  Posted to the right....was a ARD (public TV) election graphic showing the seat pattern (yesterday early AM) from the state election. 

While the Green and black scale is correct.....the AfD  (blue scale) is INCORRECT.   Not the numbers....the scale is incorrect.

The real graphic is below it.

Accidentally done?  That's the public TV management claim.

Childish prank?  More or less.

3.  VW profit slumped by 50-percent  in the past year.

4.  Erlangen (Bavaria): ER situation...police called in....had to shoot some guy swinging a knife around.

5.  WELT piece by Anton Korinek....worth reading.....warning of massive layoffs due to AI.

6.  ARD (public TV) is starting a new service....called 'rabbit-hole'.....which they claim....will evaluate all stories for fakeness.

I give it  90 days of service....before it is announced as a 'failure'.

7. I spent 10 minutes 'playing' with a election map and Sunday results.  Where you see massive Green Party results.....it's in highly urbanized metro zones....the rest of the state (B-W).....it's mostly split by CDU and AfD.

Four Humble Thoughts

 1.  Hyped-up sense over the state election yesterday?

Well...Greens walked away with a major 'win', and the SPD folks (at least in the state of B-W)....looked like crap.  I would add....if you go and look at regional voting....there's some shocking upward urbanized trends for AfD (Mannheim for example).

Balance of seats?  It appears that the Greens get 56 seats....as do the  CDU. SPD gets 10 seats, and AfD gets 35.  Coalition?  It can only be Greens and CDU.  If the CDU has some right-wing agenda to pop up....they could carry it with AfD votes.

2. Yesterday....Putin gave some speech.  Midst of it....had a five-star coughing attack. Was carried live on TV apparently.

3. One odd aspect from the German state election.....the trend-folks can show that AfD gains....came from left and center politics.  General public are attached to the crime-angle and migrant issues.  

4.   Meteorite damage.....various parts of Rhineland-Palatinate Saturday evening.

Police say....fragments of a meteorite have caused damage to roofs and houses in Rhineland-Palatinate. Damage reports: Hunsrück and Eifel regions, as well as Koblenz.  

Baden-Wurttemberg State Election Results

 Green Party.....winner....31.8-percent.

CDU....2nd place....29.3-percent (about 5 points above last election). 

AfD.....17.6-percent....about 9 points above last election.

SPD.....5.5-percent (half of last time's vote).

FDP/Linke....4.5 percent each.....neither will get seats unless they get near 5-percent.

Massive Green Party win.....simple coalition.....Greens with CDU as a partner.

How way-off were the polls from the past week?  I'd say Greens were 30-percent off....SPD way-over-counted.....and the CDU did overly well (6 points above projection).

Snack Rule

 This AM....I was reading a minor German news item....related to a school in the state of NRW (NW Germany)....where instructions got passed out during Ramadan and causing heartburn.

Students (appears in the age group of 12 to 14)....are apparently supposed to eat their break-time sandwiches or snack-food.....ONLY secretly or away from the Muslim kids.

Parents reaction?  Mostly negative.

I paused over this....thinking....if you were true to the Ramadan business....you aren't supposed to hydrate (drink fluids) from sun-up to sun-down.  You'd have to mandate no fluids as well as the snack-rule. 

Inviting trouble?  The more I ponder this....yeah.....there's trouble brewing if you really stress this.

Cash Story

 This week...Hungarian officials stopped two vehicles (together)...heading toward the Ukrainian border (eastward).

What they found in the vehicles?  40 Million US-Dollars (cash), 35 Million Euro (cash) and 9 Kilogram in Gold.

Crew?  Ukraine guys.

Official story?  Profits from some Ukraine guy's business.

Bogus story?  Well....you don't know.

All of this is an issue for the EU....where the money came from and how you can move this much in cash around.

Weed Story

 One of the top ten grocery chains in Germany....is NETTO.  On my wife's list?  Well....no.  She might stop there twice a year.

Yesterday, in their weekly advertising....they noted that they have a Cannabis-starter 'kit'....14.99 Euro.

I read the piece twice over.  Seedling....basic instructions....projected growth, and you end up with a Cannabis plant.

255 shops will market it Germany-wide.

On the same brochure page....strawberry plants as well.

I'm guessing there is a age limit (probably minimum of age 16).  This starting some trend?  Maybe.