To: BenLurkin
Is there an origin for methane other than as a waste product of living things?
8 posted on
04/01/2019 2:07:08 PM PDT by
JimRed
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To: JimRed
To: JimRed
There are outer planet moons with lakes of cold liquid methane, and the universe seems to be awash in hydrocarbons. On the left below is such a lake on Titan. Right is size comparison with Lake Superior. Living things on this planet are made up of, not the original sources of, organic compounds. Why people continue to believe that fossil fuels are made of "fossils" is a puzzle. Dr. Thomas Gold nailed it years ago.
33 posted on
04/01/2019 2:41:22 PM PDT by
katana
To: JimRed
Yes absolutely. There is methane in lots of places in our solar system that presumably has a non-biologic origin, such as Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Titan... The “scientific consensus” seems to be that the vast majority of the Earth’s methane is has a biological source and only a tiny minority of it is the result of geologic processes.
To: JimRed
“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.
41 posted on
04/01/2019 3:04:29 PM PDT by
steve86
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To: JimRed
Yes....Ask google for more info...
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