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• Opportunity Discovers Little Martian Spheres That Don't Taste Like 'Blueberries' - Ainz - 9/15/2012 4:11:01 PM
  • First guess: "oolites" - podrock - 9/16/2012 3:15:37 PM
    • Sort of like a pearl, but without the oyster? - Ainz - 9/17/2012 8:10:14 PM
  • I will swear I've seen similar objects. - bowser - 9/15/2012 10:02:21 PM
    • Interesting. - RobVG - 9/15/2012 11:21:35 PM
      • On Earth, such spheres are normally formed by accretion in some kind of liquid environment. - TB - 9/16/2012 12:46:36 AM
        • I'd like to hear Pod's take on this too... - Ainz - 9/16/2012 12:13:29 PM
          • I'll have to get back to y'all soon... - podrock - 9/16/2012 3:13:21 PM
            • I've found that ethyl alcohol has an interesting effect on those processes. - alcaray - 9/16/2012 7:15:35 PM
        • It was just a wag but... - RobVG - 9/16/2012 2:24:45 AM
      • No shootdown-here. - ER - 9/15/2012 11:56:55 PM
      • Hailstones - RobVG - 9/15/2012 11:46:19 PM
  • Thanks Ainz - RobVG - 9/15/2012 5:18:52 PM

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