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Hey and welcome to the short stuff.

I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's even here too.

Dave's here in spirit so it's a short stuff.

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Martian Rock.

Yeah Chuck, we did one recently on not just SETI but you know how humans might respond

to what the protocols are for talking to aliens.

I don't remember what we named it but we mentioned this in passing in that episode because

we're talking today about a particular chunk of rock that was discovered on December 27th,

1984 in Antarctica and it's called ALH 84001 and the ALH stands for the Allen Hills region

of Antarctica was found.

The 001 stands for the fact that it was the first rock discovered of the season and it

was the 8485 collecting season so that's where the 84 comes from.

And you might say hey that's great, that's interesting.

So we're Marko will about ALH 84001 and I think we should talk about that in depth real

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