Lava tubes may be havens for ancient alien life and future human explorers

> "The first such feature on the moon—a hole 50 meters across and dozens of meters deep—was discovered more than a decade ago in an image captured by Japan’s SELENE orbiter. Many more skylights have been found on the moon since then, and hundreds of possible skylights have been spotted on images snapped by Mars orbiters, the first of which were taken in the mid-1970s.

Interesting. I didn't know that we've spotted that many likely candidates on Mars.

Life on earth is literally everywhere. Life even alters the planet's chemistry to suit more life. I cannot see "life" living in a microbiome under a rock or in a lava tube, totally disconnected from some other life 100m away in another tube. If life exists, even if only as microbes, it will have taken the entire planet. It will have adapted itself, or the planet, as it did earth.

So stop spinning ideas about how it may be in some fine layer between one dead zone and another. Such possibilities are interesting but not very inspirational. Let's break out the telescopes and start seriously looking for biosignatures in alien atmospheres. I don't care if an amoeba is found on Mars, resulting in a decades-long debate on where it came from. I want to find a jungle of life. I want a Degoba.

This makes me wonder, are there any places in alaska where you can buy a lava tube as real estate, like the land it runs under w/mineral rights?

Maybe, but lava tubes are also really boring. Can see we do the karst stuff on Mars?