Hi Mike,
I guess you can not do "Pop Rocks" either :-/
Best regards,
Greg
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Galactic Stone & Ironworks" <meteoritem...@gmail.com>
To: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_w...@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: "Fries, Marc D (3225)" <marc.d.fr...@jpl.nasa.gov>;
<meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mike Farmer Eats Moon & Mars Rocks!
Let the record show that -
1) Mars meteorites have zero calories per serving.
2) Mars meteorites have zero grams of fat and zero grams of transfats.
3) Mars meteorites are free of artificial flavors, preservatives and
colorings.
The same cannot be said for lunar meteorites because they contain a
considerable amount of green cheese, which is high in fat and
calories.
Some years ago, I had attempted to patent a nutrition and diet bar
whose key ingredients were unprocessed whole wheat and shergottite. I
was immediately hit with a cease and desist by the M&M Mars group who
had already marketed their Mars Bar. It is interesting to note that
my patent would not be approved, despite the fact that the M&M Mars
Bar contains no Mars at all - only terrestrial ingredients.
I also tried to market a candy bar made from H3-6 chondrite and
peanuts, but the makers of Zagnut put a stop to that as well. :(
Best regards and clear skies,
MikeG
On 8/17/09, Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_w...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Hi, Marc, List, and all Mars Eaters Everywhere,
The piece is actually a poem in "The Martians,"
a fourth volume or supplement to the Mars Trilogy.
It is in a section entitled "If Wang Wei Lived on Mars
and Other Poems." He eat a piece of Zagami on
March 25, 1996, his 43rd birthday, shortly before
the final drafts of the Trilogy were finished, as a
kind of celebration.
>From the date, it would seem he might have been
one of the first to eat or at least taste Mars, and
since he published about it, he was likely the first
person we heard about doing it. I was, at any rate.
Made me buy a Bessey speck a few years later and
chow down.
Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Fries, Marc D (3225)" <marc.d.fr...@jpl.nasa.gov>
To: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mike Farmer Eats Moon & Mars Rocks!
The gent who wrote the Red Mars trilogy, Kim Stanley Robinson, wrote a
short
appendix to one of the books in the series. The details are a little
sketchy to me now (been a while since I read them), but if I recall
correctly the appendix was titled, ³The First Recorded Instance of
Aerophagy² and was about him sitting on his rooftop looking at Mars
while he
ate a small piece of a martian meteorite. I recall being stunned at the
time, but I wouldn't even blink at such a thing today.
Cheers,
MDF
On 8/16/09 3:18 PM, "Rob McCafferty" <rob_mccaffe...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Nothing unusual about this.
My first ever meteorite was a 25mg piece of Dhofar 1084. Tasting it
was one of
the first things I did.
I don't recal ever having tasted a martian though it is a distinct
possibility
and I was thoroughly underwhelmed by the experience.
I can tell you that eucrite tastes like those cinder blocks that they
use for
making homes, the really big grey ones....with a little sprinkling of
iron
filings on top.
You may be wondering how I know what cinder blocks or iron filings
taste like
but I also believe you're intelligent enough to also have guessed the
answer.
It's a wonder I'm still alive.
Rob
--- On Thu, 8/13/09, Leigh Anne DelRay <leighannedel...@gmail.com>
wrote:
From: Leigh Anne DelRay <leighannedel...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mike Farmer Eats Moon & Mars Rocks!
To: "JoshuaTreeMuseum" <joshuatreemus...@embarqmail.com>,
Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009, 10:32 PM
Leigh Anne DelRay Snorts Mars
Rocks!!!!!
The latest trend:
http://www.callistodesigns.com/ebay/snortingmars.jpg
Yes that was a real Mars rock, thanks to Mexico Doug!
Oh Yes! And I too, have tasted (although not eaten) a moon
Rock
http://www.callistodesigns.com/ebay/licking-the-moon.jpg
And yes that was a real Moon rock, thanks to Greg Hupe'.
Just a little something to be silly,
Leigh Anne
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:14 AM,
JoshuaTreeMuseum<joshuatreemus...@embarqmail.com>
wrote:
http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/michael-farmer-meteorite-broker-
1278.php
I too often chow down on these tasty morsels. Just
this morning I had a
bowl of crunchy anorthosite cereal, though I hate
the way the plagioclase
feldspar sticks between your teeth!
Phil Whitmer
Meet Michael Farmer, aka Meteorite Guy
In the exclusive world of meteorite brokers, his rise
has been, well ...
By Jay MacDonald
Twelve years ago, a stock boy at Target purchased a
chunk of space debris at
the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show that changed his life
forever.
He has not only held pieces of the moon and Mars in
his hands -- he has
tasted them.
"I've eaten a piece of every moon rock and Mars rock
that I have purchased
or found, just to say I did it," he chuckles. "We are
all made of space
rock."
Welcome to the out-of-this-world life of Michael
Farmer, aka Meteorite Guy,
one of only about 20 professional meteorite brokers --
on this planet
anyway.
Building a rock-solid empire
Farmer was a 25-year-old college student attending the
University of Arizona
on the G.I. Bill, stocking shelves part time and
vaguely drifting toward a
career with the CIA when he happened to wander into
the largest gem and
mineral show on earth.
"I bought a rock (meteorite) for $70 and got so
fascinated with it that it
changed the course of my life," Farmer recalls. "When
I saw it, I thought,
'Wow, I'm holding a piece of outer space!'"
Anxious to find more, he scoured the gem show site
until he met an old-timer
who had a box of 40 meteorites hidden under the table.
His asking price:
$4,000 for the box.
"I had no money at the time, so I had to beg and
borrow to buy the box,"
Farmer recalls. "When I started researching the
meteorites, I found that
that they were from a very rare collection, and I
quadrupled my money on
those stones in about 48 hours. That's when I realized
you could actually
make money doing this."
Within a year, Farmer had earned enough to make the
first of dozens of trips
to Africa, initially focusing on the Sahara Desert.
Why the desert? Prepare to be mentally humbled.
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