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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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To: oblomov
"I think that Tyrell Corporation is the way to play it."

Batty: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.

61 posted on 11/30/2009 2:15:58 PM PST by rednesss (fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power)
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To: Turborules
Though why are Earth's hydrocarbon deposits always found in sedimentary, or meta-sedimentary rock?
62 posted on 11/30/2009 2:35:01 PM PST by onedoug
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To: bunkerhill7; SouthTexas
Buy Titan Oil Company stock now.

That's for beginners. I just signed the contract to build the pipeline...

63 posted on 11/30/2009 2:43:07 PM PST by tubebender (Some minds are like concrete Thoroughly mixed up and permanently set...)
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To: lack-of-trust

The methane rain falls mainly on Titan’s plains?

Just think if one of those billion ton oil tanker
rockets ran aground on the moon or hit the space station?
Who would clean up all the satellites and just think
of the poor Lunar polo bears?


64 posted on 11/30/2009 2:53:03 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tubebender; bunkerhill7

I think I may wait on this one.


65 posted on 11/30/2009 3:12:31 PM PST by SouthTexas (God Bless our Fort Hood Troops)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

And then we will find more energy in . . .?


66 posted on 11/30/2009 4:23:34 PM PST by Elsiejay (.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Any bids on the pipe line yet?


67 posted on 11/30/2009 4:25:37 PM PST by U S Army EOD
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

True enough....but the pipeline is going to be a bit “iffy”!!


68 posted on 11/30/2009 4:26:37 PM PST by Logic n' Reason (If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got.)
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To: U S Army EOD

See post #63. I still have a few shares left but they have gone up in price. Don’t miss out this time around...


69 posted on 11/30/2009 6:41:31 PM PST by tubebender (Some minds are like concrete Thoroughly mixed up and permanently set...)
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To: onedoug

the chemistry of oil and NG requires pressure and heat same as that needed to form coal and diamonds. the biggest deposits are found in coastal areas miles below the surface where you find many forms of rock strata...I will look at the geological data for evidence..., I am not saying that plankton and sea life could not add to the equation , it is a complicated process, and a simple statement that dinosaur and plant life is the source is very self serving...

The fact that other planets or moons in our own Solar System, proven not to support life as we know it, yet still produce Oil and Gas in abundance...Titan, proves my point, as other have noted, Organic life or man was not needed, only the Creators Chemistry Set.

I will look for the original white paper research I studied about 15 years ago, it is here on one of my computers???


70 posted on 11/30/2009 11:28:51 PM PST by Turborules
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To: Elsiejay

I’m not sure that I understand your comment. The four hundred years is the amount of energy available in coal, if used to make electricity and converted to fuel oil (for about $60/bbl) at current rates of consumption. Coal, btw, is clearly of biological origin.

Burning coal for electricity makes little sense when nuclear energy is available, but that’s the silly political environment we find ourselves in.

Sometime in the next four hindred years, approximately the time since Columbus’ voyage, the world will have to work out the details of how to take of itself without us. The abiotic theory offers the hope that virtually inexhaustable reserves of hydrocarbons are available under the surface of the earth, if we learn how to exploit them.


71 posted on 12/01/2009 3:10:53 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The CRU needs adult supervision.)
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To: Turborules

I seriously doubt there’s any crude oil out there. I’m just one of those biologics (no, not dinosaurs) guys for sedimentary reasons. No other source beds have been otherwise documented. Though I can be persuaded otherwise...with evidence. But it’s gotta be solid.


72 posted on 12/01/2009 5:45:38 AM PST by onedoug (SARAH!)
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