Always a pleasure to think about how a substantial part of our planet, an unimaginably large mass and volume, is a kind of mildly dated-looking jade/moss-green rock. https://www.science.org/content/article/long-last-ocean-drillers-exhume-bounty-rocks-earth-s-mantle
Like if you inherited a glass table with chunky triangular legs made out of peridotite, you would roll your eyes and make a joke about what people thought was classy in 1991. And if you look up at the space station at night, a distance much greater than that in the other direction is almost all solid tacky table-leg.
Cursed/blessed to live on a planet made out of someone’s car dealership owning uncle’s custom kitchen counter material.
Planet that looks like the royalty-free texture on the back side of the lanyard badge at a weird conference you went to in 2014.