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Ore You Going To Eat That?
Baby Starfish by A. Jarrett (cc by-nc-nd)Today in Weird Science!: A handy guide to the rocks and minerals of Minecraft, teensy little cannibals who eat their own siblings for their own survival, and hot, hot, sweaty manikins.(Hey, it’s Weird Science th…
Never try to hold lava in your hands, especially not in the real world.
A handy guide to the rocks and minerals of Minecraft. (SL labor of love from Jolyon Ralph of Mindat.org, “the world’s largest open database of minerals, rocks, meteorites and the localities they come from.”)