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Titan's Surface Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth
NASA ^ | February 13th, 2008

Posted on 11/30/2009 10:29:59 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing

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 data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes.

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Cassini has mapped about 20 percent of Titan's surface with radar. Several hundred lakes and seas have been observed, with each of several dozen estimated to contain more hydrocarbon liquid than Earth's oil and gas reserves. The dark dunes that run along the equator contain a volume of organics several hundred times larger than Earth's coal reserves.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dinosaurs; fossilfuels; oil; peakoil
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And all of this without dinosaurs.
1 posted on 11/30/2009 10:30:00 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Hydrocarbons are the basic building block of the universe.


2 posted on 11/30/2009 10:32:04 AM PST by marron
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To: marron

Oil = Earth Juice


3 posted on 11/30/2009 10:32:57 AM PST by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

That was my thought. Would this oil be ... oil as we know it.


4 posted on 11/30/2009 10:33:15 AM PST by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

This has been known for a long time. Look at all that carbon it it’s atmosphere! No AGW THERE!...............


5 posted on 11/30/2009 10:34:11 AM PST by Red Badger (Al Gore is the Bernie Madoff of environmentalism. He belongs in jail. - Unknown Blogger)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Any thinking person has to realize that the “oil is dead dinosaurs” theory is a fairy tale.


6 posted on 11/30/2009 10:34:52 AM PST by HIDEK6
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To: K-oneTexas

Hydrocarbons are easily manipulated from one form to another. They could make anything out of Titan’s stuff..........


7 posted on 11/30/2009 10:35:30 AM PST by Red Badger (Al Gore is the Bernie Madoff of environmentalism. He belongs in jail. - Unknown Blogger)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing; SunkenCiv

Dinosaurs on Titan ping.


8 posted on 11/30/2009 10:35:35 AM PST by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Buy Titan Oil Company stock now.


9 posted on 11/30/2009 10:37:42 AM PST by bunkerhill7 (God bless)
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To: bunkerhill7

They’ve already got a football team in Nashville ... just sayin’


10 posted on 11/30/2009 10:38:40 AM PST by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

bump


11 posted on 11/30/2009 10:39:50 AM PST by Captain Beyond (The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

SWEET !!! ... now how do we get it here?


12 posted on 11/30/2009 10:40:22 AM PST by dartuser ("Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand")
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To: marron

You mean as in “carbon based units”?
Yeah, but you need nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorous,iron, magnesium,etc.
...ain’t nothing living that doesn’t have those.


13 posted on 11/30/2009 10:42:18 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Some oil Baron from Dubai will beat us there. Bank on it...


14 posted on 11/30/2009 10:42:37 AM PST by Dead Corpse (III)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Try not to think TOO simplistically.

The classifications for hydrocarbons defined by IUPAC nomenclature of organic chemistry are as follows:

1. Saturated hydrocarbons (alkanes) are the most simple of the hydrocarbon species and are composed entirely of single bonds and are saturated with hydrogen. The general formula for saturated hydrocarbons is CnH2n+2 (assuming non-cyclic structures). Saturated hydrocarbons are the basis of petroleum fuels and are either found as linear or branched species. Hydrocarbons with the same molecular formula but different structural formulae are called structural isomers.As given in the example of 3-methylhexane and its higher homologues, branched hydrocarbons can be chiral. Chiral saturated hydrocarbons constitute the side chains of biomolecules such as chlorophyll and tocopherol.

2. Unsaturated hydrocarbons have one or more double or triple bonds between carbon atoms. Those with one double bond are called alkenes, with the formula CnH2n (assuming non-cyclic structures). Those containing triple bonds are called alkynes, with general formula CnH2n-2.

3. Cycloalkanes are hydrocarbons containing one or more carbon rings to which hydrogen atoms are attached. The general formula for a saturated hydrocarbon containing one ring is CnH2n.

4. Aromatic hydrocarbons, also known as arenes, are hydrocarbons that have at least one aromatic ring.

Hydrocarbons can be gases (e.g. methane and propane), liquids (e.g. hexane and benzene), waxes or low melting solids (e.g. paraffin wax and naphthalene) or polymers (e.g. polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene).

15 posted on 11/30/2009 10:43:36 AM PST by Pistolshot (Brevity: Saying a lot, while saying very little.)
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To: MHGinTN; tx_eggman
They’ve already got a football team in Nashville ... just sayin’

That's right... Titan is made of oil... and the Titans are made of Oilers.
16 posted on 11/30/2009 10:44:49 AM PST by SpinnerWebb (mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves)
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To: bunkerhill7

I think that Tyrell Corporation is the way to play it.


17 posted on 11/30/2009 10:48:59 AM PST by oblomov
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To: SpinnerWebb

Eggs ackley!


18 posted on 11/30/2009 10:49:25 AM PST by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Is Titan having global warming?


19 posted on 11/30/2009 10:50:55 AM PST by FrankR (SENATE: You cram it down our throats in '09, We'll shove it up your ass in '10...count on it.)
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To: Dead Corpse
"Some oil Baron from Dubai will beat us there. Bank on it..."

Well it's not like Obama or the democrats would let us drill there.

20 posted on 11/30/2009 10:52:24 AM PST by DannyTN
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