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Cassini finds evidence of giant hydrocarbon lakes on moon Titan
AP - Bakersfield Californian ^
| 7/24/06
| Alicia Chang - ap
Posted on 07/24/2006 6:56:41 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: Texas Eagle
Do you post this unoriginal stupid reply on every thread, or only on ones that you don't understand?
To: NormsRevenge
...All these worlds are your except "Titan". Atempt no landings there ...
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posted on
07/24/2006 7:21:38 PM PDT
by
MaDeuce
(Do it to them, before they do it to you! (MaDuce = M2HB .50 BMG))
To: NormsRevenge
OK so we've been taught that hydrocarbons are the results of plant matter in the pre-historic swamps. hence the term fossil fuels. If thats the case then I wanna know how the plants got there?
Or is this proof of life on other planets?
To: PatrickHenry
Nah. I'm designing a wormhole to transport these compounds as we speak. Natural gas prices are about to go down!
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posted on
07/24/2006 7:23:29 PM PDT
by
ahayes
("If intelligent design evolved from creationism, then why are there still creationists?"--Quark2005)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
07/24/2006 7:23:46 PM PDT
by
spanalot
To: driftdiver
There's more than one way to make a hydrocarbon.
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posted on
07/24/2006 7:24:16 PM PDT
by
ahayes
("If intelligent design evolved from creationism, then why are there still creationists?"--Quark2005)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
"One of these lakes can handle all of our energy needs for hundreds of years, IMO. There's gotta be a way to harness the energy."
A REALLLY long siphon tube. Course we could go there and have huge oil tanks running across the solar system. Then the environmentalist would be complaining about the effects of oil spills on the shores of the astroid belt.
To: PatrickHenry
There's the "Big Inch" and the "Little Big Inch" (from WWII); now we can have the "Really Big Inch"!
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posted on
07/24/2006 7:26:44 PM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Doctor Stochastic
Please, no bragging. This is a family-oriented thread.
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posted on
07/24/2006 7:30:06 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(The Enlightenment gave us individual rights, free enterprise, and the theory of evolution.)
To: NormsRevenge
So specular reflections from them are hard to see because they're at high latitudes.
To: ahayes
"There's more than one way to make a hydrocarbon."
Thats kinda my point. If there's more than one way for hydrocarbons to be on Titan then there is probably more than one way on earth. Which would raise the possibility that "fossil" fuels aren't necessarily a non-renewable resource. And that said fuels may have been or may be created by other processes within the earth. That would mean the oil reserves could be a renewable resource.
Not my original idea, I read a report from a NASA scientist proposing this idea about 3 months ago based on this data.
To: NormsRevenge
"But the source of methane inside the moon, which is releasing the gas into the atmosphere is still unknown." Obviously, its from decaying dinosaurs and ferns. Thats the only place it can possible come from here on earth.
To: driftdiver
There's gotta be a way to harness the energy The trick would be to keep these Gases liquid as your transport approaches the Sun.
I would imagine the pressures would escalate quite rapidly as sunlight on the transports surface intensifies.
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posted on
07/24/2006 7:38:07 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(All are worthy of freedom, none are incapable.)
To: NormsRevenge
Wow great article Norm! Thanks for bringing it here.
Hypothetically (and were it to be my choice) I would rather be on a manned exploration to Titan than Mars.
W.
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posted on
07/24/2006 7:46:46 PM PDT
by
RunningWolf
(2-1 Cav 1975)
To: RunningWolf
That would be one heckuva mission.. maybe a stopoff at Mars and then onto Titan.. I hope you're young, this is definitely quite a few years down the road at the rate
Nasa is moving.
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posted on
07/24/2006 7:49:25 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ......Help the "Pendleton 8' and families -- http://www.freerepublic.com/~normsrevenge/)
To: FairOpinion; annie laurie
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posted on
07/24/2006 7:53:00 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(updated my FR profile on Wednesday, June 21, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: norwaypinesavage
Obviously, its from decaying dinosaurs and ferns. Thats the only place it can possible come from here on earth
Heh heh heh ;) You forgot the plankton seas.
I think you know this (or you would not have said that) but they are finding oil far deeper than the original models predicted. I wont name the models here & now but I think you know what they were.., LOL.
W.
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posted on
07/24/2006 7:53:36 PM PDT
by
RunningWolf
(2-1 Cav 1975)
To: PatrickHenry
Well, we could ignite it and aim it at the sun for a great July 4th display.
To: NormsRevenge
That looks like the surface of most of the roads in northeast Ohio.
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posted on
07/24/2006 8:01:35 PM PDT
by
Carl LaFong
("I not only denies the allegations,I resents the allegator" - George Stevens)
To: NormsRevenge
No, I would be age disqualified too.
For what its worth IMO, the manned missions like that will not happen until we develop the new propulsion technologies (ion or plasma?) which give big leaps over over the current (liquid & solid fuel) combustible fuel systems. My analogy here would be from radial engine to jet engine.
W.
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posted on
07/24/2006 8:04:35 PM PDT
by
RunningWolf
(2-1 Cav 1975)
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