“You Earthlings call it Titan but we just call it Pullmyfinger.”
Ping.
Road Trip!!!
Doesn’t matter! Obambi has bigger aspirations like trying to land on large balls of ice hurtling around the solar system!
All that aside, this is really a great find. If it’s true, we should be pushing for more exploration and possibly manned exploration in the next 50 years. I recall in an honors science colloquium in college that the prevalence of methane-consuming organisms in the solar system is likely very high and considered a “life form.” One of the ideas behind terraforming Mars is to implant methanogenes to “scrub” the atmosphere and make it hospitable to carbon dioxide consuming plants which produce oxygen during respiration.
Titan may be inhospitable to human life, but sending rovers there like we did Mars would likely yield some historical data that would revolutionize solar system research for centuries.
One wonders why they’re so intent on finding life on other planets, when we abort intelligent life on our own.
I know a place where there isn’t life on the surface, and yet, looking deeper we exterminate what life we do find.
Even though we could, we don’t even bother to look at this life until it’s been ripped to shreds while being remove from under the surface.
Just remember folks, these doctors swore...
“FIRST: DO NO HARM!”
They must have made a mistake when they picked the word ‘Hippocratic’, to describe this, because even simple minded children know it’s just hypocritical.
“Scientific conservatism suggests that a biological explanation should be the last choice after all non-biological explanations are addressed”
A biological explanation implies at least two things: an at least moderately complex system capable of reproducing, and (specifically in this case) a means for that complex system to generate catalysts capable of bringing about the reactions postulated.
On earth, those kinds of things require proteins, specifically enzymes - can’t see them evolving in the absence of water, or at temperatures that generate lakes of liquid methane.
That means the researchers had better be prepared to hypothesize a whole new molecular paradigm for the fundamental processes of reproduction and catalysis - good luck with that.
Star Trek trivia comes to mind. Among the first contact words of a subsurface microorganism life form was to call humans “bags of dirty water.”
In other words “Scientist take a wild guess”
Gee! Missing acetylene and hydrogen! I suppose it’s to big of a leap to assume that they are connected in some fashion without including life. I wonder what the status of ethylene is?
There’s many people who want very much to find life on Titan, because Titan is covered with oceans of methane... a “fossil” fuel. If they don’t find life there then people might claim that fossil fuels on Earth aren’t from fossils. With lefties, it’s follow the money, the control, or the stupid. It’s one or another.
This is a LIE! Whenever there is methane, there is global warming and unless that is offset using carbon credits, the whole place will heat up. I have this information on the authority of leading scientists. So how can it be cool when there is methane?
If the life-forms there are intelligent, they should close their planetary borders to liberals.
Where's my shotgun?