Mars rabbits and other malfunctions

I'm an amateur paleontologist, and rocks that happen to resemble fossils
are called pseudofossils (I've got a rock that looks like a giant
toothy grin because a whitish mineral got into a crescent-shaped crack
in it, and then it was ground down smooth be glacial effects.- this is
my "Fossil Cheshire Cat".) but using the rover's microscopic viewer on
any Martian fossils should be able to identify them with some degree of
certainty true fossils show detail and symmetry under magnification;
pseudofossils don't.

Pseudo fossils can fool reasonable people. They can also fool Ed "Man as old
as coal" Conrad and his Concretions (from talk.origins) into thinking that
he's found the pancreases, brains, livers, and assorted other viscera of
nine-foot tall 300 million year old humanoids.

Ami Silberman wrote:

Pseudo fossils can fool reasonable people. They can also fool Ed "Man as old
as coal" Conrad and his Concretions (from talk.origins) into thinking that
he's found the pancreases, brains, livers, and assorted other viscera of
nine-foot tall 300 million year old humanoids.


After all these years of partying, I'm sure that my liver at least is
fairly near fossilization in its present condition; I assume that
Ireland is sitting on a bedrock made of the fossilized livers of its
many generations of "High Spirited" men and women (if you know what I
mean), looking like some giant version of a cobblestone street. This
must have been particularly true before the arrival of Saint Patrick, as
the terrible threat of snakebite would have made a state of at least
mild inebriation the only safe way to avoid the threat posed by the
venomous bites of these pestilential creatures, of which (it is stated
in the old legends) there could be as many as three or four of on the
island at any given time. =-O

Pat

P.S. About my namesake and the snakes:
http://www.txtwriter.com/Onscience/A...patsnakes.html