Song for a Martian Rock
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elisem[It occurs to me that some folks here might get a kick out of this and might not have seen it yet.... ]
Let me tell you all a story 'bout a blob named Jed,
a poor martian critter, barely kept his family fed,
and then one day he was wigglin' toward some food
when some of the ground came a litle unscrewed.
Impact events, they say;
bounced a piece of it on outta there,
just like a billiard ball.
Well the next thing ya know old Jed is on the move.
The kinfolks said, "Jed, what you tryin' to prove?"
They said "Antarctica's the place ya oughta go,"
so he loaded up the rock and he headed for the snow.
It was a nice rock, too.
Igneous orthopyroxenite.
Got pretty good mileage.
So eventually the earthlings, they took apart the rock,
and ran it through the TEMs and made the darn things talk,
And that's how we know about a critter named Jed,
and we're mighty glad to meet him, even if he's dead.
Come on in; show us your slides, boys.
Publish.
Y'all get tenure now, y'hear?
Song for a Martian Rock (c) Elise Matthesen 10:30 PM CDT 7-AUG-96
Permission to repost and email hereby granted; republication in any other form or for fee prohibited without express written permission of author. Thank you.
Let me tell you all a story 'bout a blob named Jed,
a poor martian critter, barely kept his family fed,
and then one day he was wigglin' toward some food
when some of the ground came a litle unscrewed.
Impact events, they say;
bounced a piece of it on outta there,
just like a billiard ball.
Well the next thing ya know old Jed is on the move.
The kinfolks said, "Jed, what you tryin' to prove?"
They said "Antarctica's the place ya oughta go,"
so he loaded up the rock and he headed for the snow.
It was a nice rock, too.
Igneous orthopyroxenite.
Got pretty good mileage.
So eventually the earthlings, they took apart the rock,
and ran it through the TEMs and made the darn things talk,
And that's how we know about a critter named Jed,
and we're mighty glad to meet him, even if he's dead.
Come on in; show us your slides, boys.
Publish.
Y'all get tenure now, y'hear?
Song for a Martian Rock (c) Elise Matthesen 10:30 PM CDT 7-AUG-96
Permission to repost and email hereby granted; republication in any other form or for fee prohibited without express written permission of author. Thank you.
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Re: Use of zeroes?
Date: 2002-05-02 08:34 am (UTC)think we know...
I know Ralph Harvey, who now runs ANSMET... I was actually going to ask you if I could forward your song to him. And the long-time ANSMET safety and camp manager, John Schutt, performs the same role for our summertime Arctic research camp. BTW, John's the guy that in the Allen Hills in 1984 actually identified "Jed" as a meteorite...