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It was a reference to that movie with that guy from Dogma.
>Yes but it would have to be direct and much more upfront.
Well those on Mars would be a bunch of atheist so for them shouldn't matter where the matter they consume comes from. In fact it shouldn't matter if they had to cannibalize corpses right away, because it's just nutrients.
>If a body was placed in the Martian soil to become part of the food cycle it would not, it would just stay there.
Yes, decomposition has to be done in a different way. And all the lifeforms that does the job here has to be exported there.
How different the soil there than barren parts of Earth? Could experience gained from battling with deserts or salinized soils help?