There Is Definitely Methane on Mars, Scientists Say. But Is It a Sign of Life?

space,com ^ | 04/01/2019 | Mike Wall

[steve86]

“Is there an origin for methane other than as a waste product of living things”

Yes, dying things.

And geological processes on earth, but not necessarily on other planets.

[eclecticEel]

There are outer planet moons with lakes of cold liquid methane

Titan has no free oxygen in its atmosphere, which is why those methane lakes can continue to exist indefinitely. On Earth anything of the sort would have long since oxidized away.

[fruser1]

CH₄. Not too tough to make. Even I can do it.

[TomGuy]

Mars would be perfect for the Green New Deal.

AOC should create a bill to fund the building of a train to Mars.

—No farting cows.
—No buildings that would need to be rebuilt.
—No carbon footprint from evil Oil and Gas.
—No Amazon facility.
—No airplanes, thus ...
—No airports with overpriced croissants.
—And No conservatives wearing MAGA hats.

Alexi could then resign from Congress to be the chief engineer on that first train to Mars.

Win win win

[Sacajaweau]

Yes....Ask google for more info...

[sparklite2]

“I’m divorcing my wife. She pulled a Mars on me.”
“What does Mars have to do with it?”
“I found her methane around.”

[caver]

I have methane coming out of my a$$, but there is no sign of life back there.

[BrandtMichaels]

Or if you check out the hydroplate theory you may find...

- IT CAME FROM EARTH!!!

Center for Scientific Creation
https://www.creationscience.com/

PS it’s a free online book but you don’t have to read 350+ pages b/c there are also loads of video explanations at the site.

[Islander7]

Saturn’s largest moon Titan is an extraordinary and exceptional world. Among our solar system’s more than 150 known moons, Titan is the only one with a substantial atmosphere. And of all the places in the solar system, Titan is the only place besides Earth known to have liquids in the form of rivers, lakes and seas on its surface.

Titan is larger than the planet Mercury and is the second largest moon in our solar system. Jupiter's moon Ganymede is just a little bit larger (by about 2 percent). Titan’s atmosphere is made mostly of nitrogen, like Earth’s, but with a surface pressure 50 percent higher than Earth’s. Titan has clouds, rain, rivers, lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons like methane and ethane. The largest seas are hundreds of feet deep and hundreds of miles wide...

NASA

....and no cows for a millions of miles.

[mumblypeg]

Drat. ALL of y’all beat me to it.

[FrankR]