Mars rocks fell in Africa in JUly

yahoo ^ | 1.17.2012 | S. Borenstein

[wolfcreek]

Scientists are confirming a recent and rare invasion from Mars: meteorite chunks from the red planet that fell in Morocco last July. This is only the fifth ...

[null and void]

That's nothing. Saudi Arabia has a rock that fell from Hell.

[Red Badger]

They can tell us where a rock came from a billion years ago, but they can’t tell us where the billions from MF Global went last year............

[colorado tanker]

Gimme my rock back!

[No Truce With Kings]

If Mars rocks fell in Africa in July, does that mean it is time to short Mars rocks? Or does it mean I should have shorted in July? For that matter, what's today's quote on Mars rocks on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange?

[wolfcreek]

Chunk ‘O’ Mars Ping!

[bkepley]

Sure sure...just meteorite chunks.

[Drill Thrawl]

Mars has had enough of the landing invasion and Rovers and is starting to throw rocks back.

Laugh it up now but that is how "The Bug War" got started with Klendathu. /s

[null and void]

That has always reminded me so much of an aluminum device inside the little rooms at the back of a 727.

At least that device has a positive value.

[dfwgator]

“Where’s the Ka-Boom? There was supposed to be an Earth-Shattering Ka-Boom.”

[GreenHornet]

How do they know for certain that the rocks came from Mars?

[Levante]

That looks like something foul that Satan blew out of his a...

[Dogbert41]

“How do they know for certain that the rocks came from Mars?”

Ever hear of a rock coming from Jupiter? Silly sausage!

[Hot Tabasco]

I was going to ask how the heck martian rocks can jump up and leave the gravitational pull and head to earth until I read the article and this:

Astronomers think millions of years ago something big smashed into Mars and sent rocks hurtling through the solar system. After a long journey through space, one of those rocks plunged through Earth's atmosphere, splitting into smaller pieces.

And now said rocks just happened to hit earth after their millions of years journey thru space to return and hit earth. And some smart folks decided to pick them up in Africa and offer them for sale...........

The only thing missing from this story is the claim that if worn in the trousers of a male, it will give him an erection lasting up to 8 hours and if such erection fails to go away, contact your local astronomer immediately.

Okay............

[SampleMan]

How do they know for certain that the rocks came from Mars?

Consensus. This would be an example of the now common methodology in science, i.e., everyone agrees to agree on something that is unsupportable with the facts, so that they can move on to the next hypothesis.

[ZX12R]

How do they know for certain that the rocks came from Mars?

We have sent mass spectrometers to the mars surface, and know it's compositional characteristics very well.

[muir_redwoods]

The gas trapped inside cavities inside the rock match precisely the sampled atmosphere on Mars. We’ve had landers on Mars since 1976 or so and we’ve got a pretty good idea what it’s made of and the trace elements in the atmosphere.

[null and void]

That looks like something foul that Satan blew out of his a...

A civilized person might recognize it as allah's anus.

An uncivilized person might kiss it...