JTEM defines Thinking Outside the Box, again

https://www.space.com/mars-liquid-water-south-pole-subglacial?u
A few years ago, but the stories go back at least a year before
that.
I know. I did a search and found a usenet post where I talk about
it back in 2021. So this 2022 story was already "reporting" old
news...
Anyway, they found liquid water on Mars where they shouldn't
have, where it's too cold, and underneath the surface, so they
concluded that there had to be some geothermic activity in order
to keep this water liquid. But...
But, as you well know, JTEM is the single most brilliant person
on all of usent. In fact, I am so *Brilliant* that I sometimes
catch myself wishing that I could be me.
Yeah, I am THAT brilliant!
And JTEM suggested that a better or at least just as good of a
solution to the water-appearing-where-it-shouldn't dilemma is
life.
Life.
Why?  Because this is just a layer of water. It's not a big
ocean. It's not the absence of ice. There is ice! But there's
also this water...
Biology produces heat! Go play in a compost heap if you don't
believe me:  A lot of heat!
Go kill a goat -- maybe that one that spurned your advance --
and the decaying carcass will generate heat!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23890649/
So why not life?
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