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To: BenLurkin

Titan has interested me for the past 10 years or so.

Titan has seas of Methane and Ethane (I guess now restricted to the poles). Methane is CH4 and created on Earth in the mantle. Natural Gas is 95.2% methane and 2% ethane. So, Natural Gas (a fossil fuel) is found on Titan? But there, they call it a hyrdrocarbon.


3 posted on 01/13/2017 10:04:57 AM PST by Vic S
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To: Vic S

That’s got to stink.
Too bad, the headline sounded like a travel agent pitch.


4 posted on 01/13/2017 10:09:27 AM PST by Buttons12
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To: Vic S
But there, they call it a hyrdrocarbon.

Hydrocarbons are called hydrocarbons no matter where they're found ...

6 posted on 01/13/2017 10:14:39 AM PST by NorthMountain (NBC is Fake News)
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To: Vic S

Titan is the only world other than Earth to have standing bodies of liquid.

Yup, seas of natural gas at the polar regions.

And of course seasonal rainstorms of natural gas.


10 posted on 01/13/2017 10:46:24 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Vic S
So, Natural Gas (a fossil fuel) is found on Titan?

Technically, it's "fossil" because you have to dig it up.

Animal fossils are called that for the same reason: they are dug out of holes in the ground, as in the Latin fossa, "ditch".

Methane on Titan is on top of the ground, no need to dig. But the shipping charges for bringing it home are killer.

14 posted on 01/13/2017 11:25:59 AM PST by thulldud
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To: Vic S
So, Natural Gas (a fossil fuel) is found on Titan? But there, they call it a hyrdrocarbon.

Well, hmmm. Maybe the asteroid that wiped out our dinosaurs bounced off of Titan and wiped out its dinosaurs, too... ;-)

18 posted on 01/13/2017 12:01:36 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
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