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	Commanders Post at The Warpath > Off-Topic Discussion > Parking Lot > Martian soil 'could support life' PDA Martian soil 'could support life' Pages : [1] 2 MTK 06-27-2008, 02:05 PM Pretty cool discovery: BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Martian soil 'could support life' (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7477310.stm) Monkeydad 06-27-2008, 04:11 PM Too bad the atmosphere won't. :D I wouldn't want to live the rest of my life dressed like this: http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/3943/legomannu6.jpg BDBohnzie 06-27-2008, 04:19 PM Too bad the atmosphere won't. :D Damn, beat me to it. Good to know if Earthlings ever colonize Mars, that they won't have to do much to the soil... I can imagine a SpongeBob type situation, where people live in bubbles, but instead of under the sea, they are on Mars... Monkeydad 06-30-2008, 03:43 PM Ever notice on Spongebob that they live under water but are always spilling things or complaining about getting wet? Doesn't make much sense. MTK 06-30-2008, 03:58 PM Ever notice on Spongebob that they live under water but are always spilling things or complaining about getting wet? Doesn't make much sense. A talking sponge doesn't make much sense either :) firstdown 06-30-2008, 04:31 PM Ever notice on Spongebob that they live under water but are always spilling things or complaining about getting wet? Doesn't make much sense. Why can't you spill stuff under water? Schneed10 06-30-2008, 04:52 PM A talking sponge doesn't make much sense either :) Makes about as much sense as trying to scratch your head against an oncoming roller coaster! LOL ArtMonkDrillz 06-30-2008, 04:57 PM Makes about as much sense as trying to scratch your head against an oncoming roller coaster! LOLYou're on a roll(er coaster). Just don't get all big headed on us. 70Chip 06-30-2008, 10:41 PM Shouldn't we assume that the proximity of Mars (and Venus for that matter) mean that it would be made of similar stuff to Earth? Wouldn't it be more surprising if it it were composed of completely different elements? I mean we know Jupiter is in a different class. It doesn't really even have a solid surface, but the inner planets are all basically siblings, cosmologically speaking. Beemnseven 07-01-2008, 06:17 PM Shouldn't we assume that the proximity of Mars (and Venus for that matter) mean that it would be made of similar stuff to Earth? Wouldn't it be more surprising if it it were composed of completely different elements? I mean we know Jupiter is in a different class. It doesn't really even have a solid surface, but the inner planets are all basically siblings, cosmologically speaking. Just to add to that, it actually shouldn't be surprising that planets from a different galaxy have the same sort of elements since all matter in the universe originated from the same point -- Big Bang Theory. That certainly isn't to say that there isn't stuff we haven't seen though.