[Night Hides Not]

If the spectroscopy is flawed, that could just as easily be a giant lake of moose piss, rather than a sea of methane.

There you go, trying to trick me. If it was a giant lake of moose piss, then oxygen would have to be present, to accommodate all those moose.

One other question: if there was no oxygen on that asteroid, then how was Harry Stamper able to detonate that nuke?

[OldDeckHand]

"There you go, trying to trick me. If it was a giant lake of moose piss, then oxygen would have to be present, to accommodate all those moose."

Man, if I knew how Photoshop worked, I'd create a terrific picture of a moose in a space-suit. You'll just have to imagine it.

"One other question: if there was no oxygen on that asteroid, then how was Harry Stamper able to detonate that nuke?"

That is a valid point. With my extremely limited understanding of thermonuclear warheads, I believe there is still a conventional explosion that propels the plutonium matter together with such force and velocity, it triggers a chain-reaction. No explosion, no chain-reaction. Perhaps it's a pneumatic thermonuclear warhead?