ok I have my dick out now what ? <| sep |> Yeh nah , spot me a bloody cuck buck for me koala , ya giant cunt mate . Edit Or for the goat , if ' is names Gary <| sep |> How indicative of life is this ? This dense passage from the paper suggests that the structures found may be stromatolites , which may be of biotic originThe morphology of Home Plate digitate silica structures bears a strong resemblance to the microbially mediated microstromatolites at El Tatio . Siliceous microstromatolites are common features of hot springgeyser systems on Earth , and the particular morphology of those at El Tatio might be due in part to halite accumulation . Although we have no microscale observations of the interiors of the Home Plate digitate silica structures , external shape generally is considered to be one of several distinguishing features of microbialites , including stromatolites . Thus , a plausible hypothesis for the Home Plate digitate structures is that they are microstromatolites formed in hot springgeyser discharge channels like those of El Tatio . However , determining the relative contribution of biotic and abiotic influences in the formation of a particular stromatolite can be quite difficult , and must be assessed on a casebycase basis . Entirely abiogenic internally laminated columnar structures have been synthesized via numerical modeling and laboratory spraypaint deposition experiments , complicating the effort to interpret such structures in the Precambrian rock record on Earth . To fully test for biogenicity of the Home Plate digitate structures would require microscopic analyses like those we have applied to El Tatio samples . I would like to know how confident we can be that the structures are stromatolites , and how confident are we that stromatolites are necessarily of biological origin ? This Wikipedia passage suggest there is some uncertainty on the second pointWhile features of some stromatolites are suggestive of biological activity , others possess features that are more consistent with abiotic nonbiological precipitation . Finding reliable ways to distinguish between biologically formed and abiotic stromatolites is an active area of research in geology . Regardless , this is super interesting research . It seems like the evidence these structures formed in a hot spring is pretty solid . I hope we are able to do microscopic analysis on structures like this on Mars in the reasonably near future , either with another rover or in a lab on Mars .