Which leads to this question: If all the building blocks are there, why didnt life begin on Mars? Could it be that life doesnt just spontaneously happen?
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Perhaps it did, untold billions of years ago and then ended. What we are findings is what remains after a world dies.
See Cementjungle’s link
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3661313/posts?page=23#23