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1 posted on 07/05/2014 9:53:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
If this theory holds up, and no inlet of freshwater is found feeding into it... ...the odds of finding life on Titan just went way down.

(On the other hand, if reliable inlets of fresh water can be found, then the choice of locations where a probe should be sent just got considerably simplified....)

2 posted on 07/05/2014 10:07:24 PM PDT by Yossarian
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We can't even explain the origin of life on earth.

The problem with explaining the origin of life is, how did self-replicating molecules arise? DNA is very complex. Even the simplest life forms require some such complex molecules. But how could such complexity have arisen? There must have some intermediate forms, but we don't know what it was.

Once you get complex self-reproducing molecules, though, natural selection can do the rest in terms of making increasingly complex life forms.

Perhaps the intermediaries to get to DNA no longer exist. It would be like if we built sentient machines and then we died out. Later, the machines might wonder how they originated. The intermediate step, us, would be gone.

12 posted on 07/05/2014 10:56:30 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: BenLurkin

We need a probe that can scoop up samples and bring them back.


20 posted on 07/06/2014 3:07:34 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: SunkenCiv

Oh look!

A Timeshare Salesman!

RUNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:-)


22 posted on 07/06/2014 4:10:27 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: BenLurkin

If Titan also has a sea made of tequila, then I volunteer to lead that mission.


25 posted on 07/06/2014 5:17:24 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: BenLurkin

Mmmm... intergalactic taffy...


30 posted on 07/06/2014 7:51:36 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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