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Lava Cave Minerals Actually Microbe Poop [clues in the search for life on Mars and beyond]
Richard A. Lovett ^
| November 20, 2009
| National Geographic News
Posted on 11/25/2009 10:02:25 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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Bright orange blotches coat the lava-rock walls of Gruta do Carvão in São Miguel, one of the Portuguese Azores islands, in an undated picture. The ooze is among several examples of colorful mineral deposits that are actually mats of waste excreted by microbes living on cave walls, researchers said in October 2009. [Photograph courtesy Guy Caniaux]
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11/25/2009 10:02:27 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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SunkenCiv
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11/25/2009 10:08:45 PM PST
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blam
To: SunkenCiv
If there's anything alive beyond microbes on Mars it will be either underground, at the bottom of that deep super trench, or inside one of those megalith structures.
It is possible that somebody reading this will be amongst the first humans to set foot on Mars since antediluvian times.
Do not go to that place unarmed!! Granted it is hellishly unlikely, but it is not beyond the realm of the possible that you might meet up with some rat or cockroach inside some tunnel or megalith or something and, due to the low gravity, that rat or cockroach might be ten feet long, and dialing 9-11 will not help. Just WAY better to have the FAL or 45/70 on hand and never need it than to need it and not have it...
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11/26/2009 9:35:10 AM PST
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wendy1946
To: SunkenCiv
Latrines, microbe poop, what next? Very scatological pings for a Thanksgiving day, Civ.
I think I saw a dress on M, my belle, O with this pattern and these colors.
To: TheOldLady
There’s probably microbe poop on everything anyway. ;’)
On Thanksgiving, that situation could be very gravy, er, grave. BISCUITS! PUMPKIN PIE! Oh geez, I’m in a food coma even after midnight...
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11/26/2009 10:05:13 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
In this house? Yeah, microbe poop and cat hair, all over everything.
The turkey still tasted great yesterday. Peas have a great day today when you get over your food coma.
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11/27/2009 4:45:02 AM PST
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TheOldLady
(No more global baloneyism!! -- Jim Thompson!)
To: TheOldLady
Lima little groggy even now.
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11/27/2009 8:31:59 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Have you tried stuffing down a little Pepto Bismol?
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11/27/2009 12:30:40 PM PST
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TheOldLady
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11/27/2009 12:33:56 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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11/27/2009 12:42:57 PM PST
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TheOldLady
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To: blam
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11/27/2009 1:33:32 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: TheOldLady
It was a cloves call though.
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11/27/2009 1:48:38 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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11/27/2009 7:49:31 PM PST
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TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady
I rosemary as the legendary Old King Coel after I got done stuffing myself.
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11/27/2009 9:00:32 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: TheOldLady
Were you parsley stuffed or completely?
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11/28/2009 11:37:38 AM PST
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TheOldLady
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To: SunkenCiv
Oops, I answered me instead of you. Anyway...
Were you parsley stuffed or completely?
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11/28/2009 12:02:52 PM PST
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TheOldLady
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To: TheOldLady
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I think I overdid, I felt herbal. And later that day I had to cilantro my realtor.
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Okay, I just made that up to stick another pun in there.
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11/28/2009 12:14:50 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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