[meteorite-list] Tr: Aphrodisiac material in Meteorites

From: almitt <almitt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:41:12 2004
Message-ID: <3A9775BF.1C963424_at_kconline.com>

Hi Kelly,

Mars is a differentiated planet so most of the metal has no doubt sank toward the core.
However there is glass in this material which if eaten in enough quantity would not be
favorable to continued life :-)

--AL

Kelly Webb wrote:

> Hi, Al and All,
> Kim Stanley Robinson's book "The Martians" contains a poem one of whose incidents
> is that after he had completed and mailed the manuscripts of the three novels "Red
> Mars / Green Mars / Blue Mars" to his publishers, he went up on his roof just before
> dawn to eat a piece of Mars at sunrise -- Zagami, it was. I'd guess you'd call that
> AEROPHAGY.
> So I suppose there's not enough nickel in a little grain of SNC to do any harm,
> as he appears to be thriving.
>
> Kelly Webb
Received on Sat 24 Feb 2001 03:50:08 AM PST