  It is shown that nuggets of strange quark matter may be extracted from the
surface of pulsars and accelerated by strong electric fields to high energies
if pulsars are strange stars with the crusts, comprised of nuggets embedded in
a uniform electron background. Such high energy nuggets called usually
strangelets give an observable contribution into galactic cosmic rays and may
be detected by the upcoming cosmic ray experiment Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
AMS-02 on the International Space Station.
