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To: James C. Bennett

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.


6 posted on 06/04/2010 2:34:12 PM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: rarestia
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.

It doesn't matter how much oxygen we pump into the Martian atmosphere, until we know how to restore the magnetic field it has lost, the atmosphere will never be retained, the solar winds will continually tear it off into the cosmos. That's what happened to the original atmosphere.

18 posted on 06/04/2010 5:25:32 PM PDT by calex59
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