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Titan Has More Oil Than Earth
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Posted on 02/13/2008 4:02:35 PM PST by 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."
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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: abiogenic; abiotic; astronomy; postit3moretimes; saturn; space; thomasgold; titan
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Not very useful now, but a giant gas station in the backwoods of the solar system might come in handy someday.
To: Names Ash Housewares
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posted on
02/13/2008 4:04:35 PM PST
by
Perdogg
(Vice President Richard B Cheney - A National Treasure)
To: Names Ash Housewares
But I thought oil was from dinosaurs and dead plants over millions of years!
Fossil fuels after all!
/sarc
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posted on
02/13/2008 4:04:56 PM PST
by
Crazieman
(The Democrat Party: Culture of Treason)
To: Names Ash Housewares
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?)
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posted on
02/13/2008 4:04:56 PM PST
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: Names Ash Housewares
Can’t use it. The Saturn Caribou use Titan as their mating grounds.
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posted on
02/13/2008 4:05:15 PM PST
by
The Iceman Cometh
(Evil has a name and it is Hillary!)
To: Names Ash Housewares
I don’t understand how this makes sense if the theory of abiotic oil on the earth is lunacy. (As it were.)
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posted on
02/13/2008 4:05:32 PM PST
by
Rippin
To: Names Ash Housewares
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.
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posted on
02/13/2008 4:06:23 PM PST
by
aft_lizard
(born conservative...I chose to be a republican)
To: Names Ash Housewares
This article was already posted as a thread and drew all the dinosaur comments anybody ever heard of.
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posted on
02/13/2008 4:06:41 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Clam down! avoid ataque de nervosa)
To: Crazieman
Hey, everyone knows that the Female T-Rex’s are from Hyperion and the males are from Titan...
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posted on
02/13/2008 4:07:20 PM PST
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: Crazieman
Yep. That’s what they say.
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posted on
02/13/2008 4:07:27 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: Names Ash Housewares
No blood for Titan Oil!
Titan lied, people died!
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posted on
02/13/2008 4:07:47 PM PST
by
hawkeye101
(When in my darkest hour, your thoughts do me no good, but PRAYERS are greatly appreciated!)
To: The Iceman Cometh
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posted on
02/13/2008 4:08:20 PM PST
by
avacado
To: Rippin
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posted on
02/13/2008 4:09:30 PM PST
by
MSF BU
(++)
To: Rippin
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posted on
02/13/2008 4:09:50 PM PST
by
MSF BU
(++)
To: Names Ash Housewares
Now the evil Americans wnt to rape and ravage the entire SOlar System. [/sarcasm]
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posted on
02/13/2008 4:10:19 PM PST
by
Jeff Head
(Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: Names Ash Housewares
Now the evil Americans want to rape and ravage the entire SOlar System. [/sarcasm]
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posted on
02/13/2008 4:10:38 PM PST
by
Jeff Head
(Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: Names Ash Housewares
Now the evil Americans want to rape and ravage the entire Solar System. [/sarcasm]
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posted on
02/13/2008 4:10:43 PM PST
by
Jeff Head
(Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
To: Rippin
I dont understand how this makes sense if the theory of abiotic oil on the earth is lunacy.
It will be titanacy now.
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posted on
02/13/2008 4:11:11 PM PST
by
alecqss
To: Names Ash Housewares
Titan obviously belongs to the U.S.
To: Names Ash Housewares
Now Congress will pass a bill to make the moons of Saturn Federally protected, so that its precious resources are safe from Big Oil.
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posted on
02/13/2008 4:12:39 PM PST
by
GregoTX
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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