Titan's surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth

SpaceRef.com ^ | February 13, 2008 | ESA

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

The standard story given for Titan is that methane (common gas in the outer solar system), nitrogen, oxygen, etc, react under exposure to the ultraviolet light from the sun in the upper Titanian atmosphere. The byproducts of these reactions, more complicated molecules of those elements, sinks to the ground and simply accumulates for thousands and millions of years, as there is no process at low altitudes (except for heat generated by impact events) to break them back to simpler molecules.

[Fred Nerks]

Saturn's orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

The term 'tholins' was coined by Carl Sagan in 1979 to describe the complex organic molecules at the heart of prebiotic chemistry.



I'm more interested in Tholians, myself.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

But we can’t mine the carbon material from Titan because the evil CORPORTIONS might spill some of the oil raining down form the sky and impact on of the numerou ecologically sensitive native species of plants and animals that just might, maybe, possibly, could inhabit that frozen wasteland. You never know.

Being environmentally sensitive, we simply CANNOT take that chance.

And we can’t allow the transportation of that carbon material through space as there just might be a spill of it into space’s vast wilderness and we CERTAINLY wouldn’t do that.

No! Still, we will be more happy to perform the requisite environmental studies in triplicate for a few eons before issuing our proclamation of “no drilling, scooping, sucking” on Titan.

Sorry y’all. It’s for the children...

[Marie]

btt

[justrepublican]

Proven reserves of natural gas on Earth total 130 thousand million tons, enough to provide 300 times the amount of energy the entire United States uses annually for residential heating, cooling and lighting.

This is news to me. Lets keep looking.

Oxygen is a pollutant on titan.

[Slings and Arrows]

When they talk about Earth's methane, are they including Taco Bell?

[UCANSEE2]

“The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes.”

Bet they have strict NO SMOKING laws on Titan.

[Turborules]

you have found it! the world has all the natural fuels it needs forever~! Technology can achieve any energy goal man wants...we only need the leadership to make it all happen!

the communist want us to pound rocks, if only they can control commissary...

As you noted there is no shortage of oil or gas, and CO2 is a biological nutrient here on earth!

Titan has no pollution at all, the EPA and UN have not arrived yet!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Fred Nerks.

to All, additional:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=titan

The Oil Glut At The End Of The Universe
Professor of Physics, MIT, Russel Seitz | August 30, 2006 | Russell Seitz
Posted on 09/01/2006 6:01:17 AM EDT by Texas Jack
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1693647/posts

‘Fossil fuel’ theory takes hit with NASA finding
worldnetdaily | December 1, 2005
Posted on 12/02/2005 10:00:55 PM EST by seastay
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1533129/posts

Probe reveals seas on Saturn moon (Titan—hydrocarbon seas, not water).
BBC | Wednesday, March 14, 2007 | Paul Rincon
Posted on 03/14/2007 4:05:51 PM EDT by Jedi Master Pikachu
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1800880/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Fred Nerks.

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[B-Chan]

So much for peak oil. Send in the solar system supertankers!

[Berosus]

Didn’t Dr. Velikovsky expect Venus to be like this?

[SunkenCiv]

The Origin of Methane (and Oil) in the Crust of the Earth
Thomas Gold
U.S.G.S. Professional Paper 1570, The Future of Energy Gases, 1993
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/tg21/usgs.html

[snip] Hydrocarbons in our planetary system are certainly very abundant, and in all the extraterrestrial examples mentioned almost certainly not related to biology. Also hydrocarbons are prominent among the gases identified in the molecular clouds of the galaxy, and it is from such clouds that the solar system formed initially. The presence and great abundance of hydrocarbons is universal, and no special mechanism for their generation on the Earth needs to be invoked, unless one knew with certainty that they could not have survived the formation process here, although they did so on many of the other planetary bodies. (No evidence of hydrocarbons has yet been seen on Mars, Moon, Venus and Mercury. The atmosphere of Venus is too hot to have maintained gaseous or liquid hydrocarbons; the other three bodies lack an adequate protective atmosphere to have maintained them on their surfaces.) [end]

[Brilliant]

In that case, we’ve got to go to Titan to exploit the natural resources there.

[Axenolith]

[Maelstorm]

Yes there must have been. lol