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Postby saschmitz » Nov 23, 2009 2:10 pm

Colorful cave deposits long thought to be ordinary minerals are actually mats of...
Microbe Poop :yikes:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... -poop.html
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Re: Lava Tube Mineral News

Postby pub » Nov 24, 2009 4:37 am

saschmitz wrote:Colorful cave deposits long thought to be ordinary minerals are actually mats of...
Microbe Poop :yikes: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... -poop.html
Thank for the link... Imagine it took a scientist to say:
Penelope Boston, a cave scientist wrote:"We're finding that you need to look at things you might write off as not being biological—they might be biological,"
Maybe poop is all around us, we just don't know it! :big grin: :laughing:
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