[Rockhounds] Iridium in undersea crater confirms asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs

[Doug Bank]

I can’t find the link I was thinking of, and maybe I am thinking of a different person, but if I had to choose a rich computer pioneer (and didn’t quite have Gates/Jobs/Allen’s money), I might prefer to be Michael Scott, first CEO of Apple. 

https://www.ocregister.com/2008/02/21/former-apple-executive-turned-gem-collector-michael-scott-talks-about-the-technicalities-of-stones/ <https://www.ocregister.com/2008/02/21/former-apple-executive-turned-gem-collector-michael-scott-talks-about-the-technicalities-of-stones/>

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-feb-16-me-gems16-story.html <https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-feb-16-me-gems16-story.html>

https://www.rom.on.ca/en/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/light-stone-gems-from-the-collection-of-michael-scott-0 <https://www.rom.on.ca/en/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/light-stone-gems-from-the-collection-of-michael-scott-0>

The article I was looking for talked about someone who lived alone and had a gemology / geology lab in his house, possibly complete with SEM / Raman etc.  Thats the kind of lab I “need" in my house.

> On Feb 25, 2021, at 1:34 PM, Tim Fisher <nospam at orerockon.com> wrote:
> 
> If you want to spend $100 learning why food cooks get a copy of Myhrvold's
> Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking. I refuse to pay but I
> read online articles about some of his stuff, and when the books came out
> they were all over the food shows lol. Insanely fascinating stuff for a
> foodie, makes me wish I had could have gone from Microsoft CTO to playing
> with liquid nitrogen and gas chromatography. Skipping the Microsoft part
> lol. Check out his website, he's moved on to snowflakes now and has a truly
> mad scientist approach to photographing them in incredible detail. 
> 
> Tim Fisher
> Http://OreRockOn.com 
> Email nospam at orerockon.com