Posted on 02/13/2008 11:10:35 AM PST by Brian S. Fitzgerald
We could also consider shrinking everyone on earth to reduce our energy usage.
I find your post...enlightening!
In particular, the carbon bonds are covalent rather than ionic.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
we have just discovered our economic reason to go deep into space.
Maybe in a hundred years or so, but no time soon.
No thanks, I’ve had two unpleasant dreams involving celestial bodies dangerously close to the planet I was living on.
If you’d like, I can continue.
Any compound with the carbon atom in it is considered an "organic" compound. This predates the current idiotic usage of the work organic meaning "grown in raw monkey sh!t."
@$@#$
You beat me !
quote:
“There must have been a sh** load of dinosaurs and ancient plant life on Titan to have turned into all those hydrocarbons.... “
Zactly !!
OK, lemmesee (sound of calculator furiously clicking) - I figure that’s just about a 20 million gallon drive assuming I don’t get a headwind in space. Piece of cake if I could just figure out where I’d pull over to pee.
I had a dream that the sun went out once. I also had a dream about a busty nurse in a Boy Scout camp.
True enough.
How about -— just get it in a big blob and lob on the correct trajectory to be captured -— who needs a tanker?
It’ll stick to itself fine.
More importantly, this is a great source of fuel for colonization of the rest of the solar system, once the muzzies make the Earth unihabitable with whatever nukes they set off.
Organic, in chemistry means it has carbon atoms in it.......In food it means it has S%$T in t.........
Scary about the sun. I’d probably let myself waste away.
But nice about the nurse at the Boy Scout camp.
It was particularly nice since I was a Boy Scout at the time.
Excellent
From WIKI a year ago (apparently, this is a new concept spurred by the greenhouse effect on scientists trying desperately to prove...-...something...)
“A cryovolcano is, literally, an icy volcano. Cryovolcanoes form on icy moons, and possibly on other low-temperature astronomical objects (e.g., Kuiper belt objects). Rather than molten rock, these volcanoes erupt volatiles such as water, ammonia or methane.[1] Collectively referred to as cryomagma or ice-volcanic melt[1], these substances are usually liquids and form plumes, but can also be in vapour form. After eruption cryomagma condenses to a solid form when exposed to the very low surrounding temperature. Some scientists[attribution needed] speculate that the cryovolcanoes on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, may harbor extraterrestrial life.
The energy required to melt ices and produce cryovolcanoes usually comes from tidal friction. It has also been suggested that translucent deposits of frozen materials could create a sub-surface greenhouse effect that would accumulate the required heat.
It is hypothesised that the Kuiper belt object Quaoar has exhibited cryovolcanism in the past. In this case, the source of energy would be radioactive decay.”
Not here on Earth.
That and Pacman Jones...
Sarcasm mode on: Can the invasion of Titan be far off ! Sarcasm mode off: !
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