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Sorry no link but it was a lead science story the last few days, you should be able to find it.

If they think that extremophiles are possible in that environment then increases the chance of life (and resources) in this solar system.

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Sorry no link but it was a lead science story the last few days, you should be able to find it.

If they think that extremophiles are possible in that environment then increases the chance of life (and resources) in this solar system.

Here's the story:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070227-ocean-asia.html

Not an ocean, but just an area of water-bearing rocks.

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Here's the story:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070227-ocean-asia.html

Not an ocean, but just an area of water-bearing rocks.

Yep.

An ocean is a large body of liquid water.

The groundwater you find in Earth's crust is sometimes referred to as forming underground rivers or oceans, which makes some people think of giant caverns full of water. However, except in actual cave systems, which are relatively rare, the water actually exists in microscopic cracks or pores in the rock, or in buried sediment which hasn't experienced enough heat and pressure to turn it to rock. In fact, some of the best aquifers are basically wet sand or gravel.

The water in Earth's mantle is not like that. It's actually locked up in the crystal structure of the mineral ringwoodite as hydroxide ions, and is well under 1% of its mass. For comparison, gypsum is about 20% water by weight, and it's not "wet" in the conventional sense.

Aside from the lack of liquid water, that part of the mantle is several times deeper than the zone where the temperature and pressure are right to form diamonds. No organic molecule could possibly survive under those conditions.

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where the temperature and pressure are right to form diamonds. No organic molecule could possibly survive under those conditions.

Except for the diamond-skinned (still carbon based, right?) lobster-crab people, who are plotting to conquer the overworld.

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Except for the diamond-skinned (still carbon based, right?) lobster-crab people, who are plotting to conquer the overworld.

That's just a cover up for the large moon cannons Obama is building to destroy the Evil Cat warriors of Draggon-6

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