They found a chunk of Mars in the Sahara Desert. A recent reveals that a rock found a few years ago in Mali is more than 4.1 billion years old and “has a mix of igneous minerals that tells a story about how [Mars’] crust formed”.
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My neighbor's pepper brisket might also be from Mars based on the photo:
hey Jason Kottke, I use Feedly for RSS feeds and the 'brisket' comment photo was the main image in the RSS feed. Not sure you want comment images bleeding over into RSS like that? I was squinting at it like 'that's not a rock, that's a chunk of meat!' before I popped open the source and saw how it was supposed to look.
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