Buck,

I have been busy with computers the last week or so. I am in the process of upgrading a large computer system and this will take a week or two more before I am finished. I know that you don't believe in miracles yet, but I will keep working on you until you do. Another happened to me recently. You see, about two weeks ago, I told my boss that I could only work until the conversion was complete and then I needed to spend more time on my meteorite and my philosophy. I had no idea how I was going to make a living, but I have no choice since I must follow my heart and work on those things that most interest me and after 20 years of being a computer genius, I am just not interested in computers any more. So last week, out of the blue, I was called and offered $45,000 for a note that I hold. I had no input in the matter and couldn't initiate this proceeding by myself. Now, someone else has offered me more than that within a day or two of the first offer. Now I will be able to get a new vehicle and devote my entire being to the meteorite and the philosophy. I know that you are thrilled by that prospect.

You seem to be saying that my meteorite represents a highly improbable situation, but I prefer to call it a miracle. If an event has already happened, then the probability is 1 that it will happen. Also, if you merely accept the proposition that the rock did fall out of the sky (and my experiences and the evidence of the rock indicate that statement is true) then the probability is higher that it came from mars than that it came from Earth. Unless a human being took this rock to orbit and dropped it back to Earth, I can think of no scenario that could have the rock form in a river system, age for 50 million years without hardly getting wet, and then be propelled into space later to land near me.

As far as what needs to be done, you have said that my rock "plots" as a basalt on Earth. I don't know what a basalt is, but I do know that the major oxides tests have been contaminated by the sandy mixture. I would guess that 5 to 20% of the material tested so far as been the contaminates from the sand, since it is stuck everywhere to the lava rock. I would suggest that we try to find one of those people who has the probe equipment and try to get a reading from just the two kinds of lava. Also, no one has done a thin section of the red rock material and even the gray rock material has a lot of degree of variability as I look at it through my microscope. (By the way, now I will be able to get a new microscope with proper lighting and a video camera hook up. I can't wait.) I had at first thought that the red inclusions that I see in both rocks might be older material that was included when the rock was made and therefore had something to do with the age. But now it looks like the age are merely the ages of the two different kinds of lave: the red and the gray. But I have spent a lot of time this last week looking at the red spots and what they most remind me of is lichens. My microscope is so bad that I can't really see much, accept that the red spots seem to lie on the surface of the rock and sometimes even bridge the vesicles. I wish that we could get some kind of testing to determine what they are and I wish we could get some good micrographs of them with light and electron microscopes.

Anyway, things are going good at this end of the line and I am continuing full steam ahead. Have a good day today and remember to believe in miracles.

Your friend,