Titan Has More Oil Than Earth

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[Names Ash Housewares]

Saturn's smoggy moon Titan has hundreds of times more natural gas and other liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, scientists said today.

The hydrocarbons rain from the sky on the miserable moon, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes. This much was known. But now the stuff has been quantified using observations from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

"Titan is just covered in carbon-bearing material — it's a giant factory of organic chemicals," said Ralph Lorenz, a Cassini radar team member from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. "This vast carbon inventory is an important window into the geology and climate history of Titan."

[Names Ash Housewares]

Not very useful now, but a giant gas station in the backwoods of the solar system might come in handy someday.

[Perdogg]

[Crazieman]

But I thought oil was from dinosaurs and dead plants over millions of years!

Fossil fuels after all!

/sarc

[coconutt2000]

Now, all we need is a wormhole between here and there to siphon off some of that black gold for our own use...

(Can I patent the idea of using a wormhole as a giant siphon?)

[The Iceman Cometh]

Can’t use it. The Saturn Caribou use Titan as their mating grounds.

[Rippin]

I don’t understand how this makes sense if the theory of abiotic oil on the earth is lunacy. (As it were.)

[aft_lizard]

Interesting. Now if we can only build massive bladders that can suck that place dry and have it remotely controlled seeing as we don’t really have the technology to protect ourselves from Saturn’s radiation.

[RightWhale]

This article was already posted as a thread and drew all the dinosaur comments anybody ever heard of.

[coconutt2000]

Hey, everyone knows that the Female T-Rex’s are from Hyperion and the males are from Titan...

[Fiddlstix]

Yep. That’s what they say.

[hawkeye101]

No blood for Titan Oil!

Titan lied, people died!

[avacado]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MSF BU]

My thoughts exactly.

[MSF BU]

My thoughts exactly.

[Jeff Head]

Now the evil Americans wnt to rape and ravage the entire SOlar System. [/sarcasm]

[Jeff Head]

Now the evil Americans want to rape and ravage the entire SOlar System. [/sarcasm]

[Jeff Head]

Now the evil Americans want to rape and ravage the entire Solar System. [/sarcasm]

[alecqss]

I don’t understand how this makes sense if the theory of abiotic oil on the earth is lunacy.

It will be titanacy now.

[nickcarraway]

Titan obviously belongs to the U.S.

[GregoTX]

Now Congress will pass a bill to make the moons of Saturn Federally protected, so that its precious resources are safe from Big Oil.