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To: alexander_busek
And the basis for this bold assertion is...?

The results from searching for life in the Dead Sea, which Titan's oceans are being compared to in this article.

Really, people, it's called the "Dead Sea" NOT because life finds it easy in there! Life can be found, but only in very particular areas where the water chemistry is different that what is found in the vast majority of it....

15 posted on 07/05/2014 11:59:19 PM PDT by Yossarian
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To: Yossarian
Really, people, it's called the "Dead Sea" NOT because life finds it easy in there! Life can be found, but only in very particular areas where the water chemistry is different that what is found in the vast majority of it....

The Dead Sea is home to billions of organisms. It is literally teaming with life.

In Titan's sea, there may also be "very particular areas."

Regards,

18 posted on 07/06/2014 12:21:31 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Yossarian

In evolutionary terms, the Dead Sea is minutes old. Life that evolved to live in the Atlantic has yet to adapt to such brine. If such a high salt sea were all that existed, I don’t doubt that originating life could deal with it.


21 posted on 07/06/2014 3:39:08 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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