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Posted on 10/25/2004 9:32:25 AM PDT by cogitator
Arggh. That's what I meant to write.
Light a match all you want. Titan has little to no free oxygen, thus, there'd be no combustion.
Details, details. (That is, of course, true -- I was being humorous, but at the same time, I didn't think about that particular fact.)
That would explain it. It would be like walking into a deep freezer where condensation would be all over the place.
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Titan is one of the most unusual bodies in the Solar System. Though other moons (notably Jupiter's Io and Europa) have interesting idiosyncrasies, Titan is really a little planet in orbit around a big planet. And that makes this a pretty interesting flyby.
> Titan has plenty of methane. The tanker run is a bit looong, though.
Nah. Once the Weyland-Yutani corporation gets the Nostromo-class tankers up and running, it won't matter... the tranist times might be a bit long, but the shipping rates will be high enough that you won't notice.
Well, technically, there'd be no oxidation if you lit a match.
(Since, as you pointed out, there's little/no free oxygen.)
But other things "combust" (combine rapidly and exothermically) in other ways in other environments.
Hey! I can see my house!
All I see is a big fuzz-ball. Is that Rush?
The Titan-Texas City pipeline: the really Long Inch.
That sounds like a physical side effect that takes place with Rosie O'Donnell when she's doing the nasty....
Do we? Here is a picture of Earth taken from orbit. Can you figure out which continent we are looking at?
Wonder if it smells like a fart?
Looks like Australia. But at least with this you can *see* land mass whereas the Titan pic isn't.
I can't see it clearly, there's a big white circle in the middle of the picture
I see land mass in the upper right of the Titan picture. Either the dark part is land and the light part is ocean or vice versa. You can see the edge where the two meet. In the Earth photo the only land mass I can make out is ice-covered Antactica at the bottom. The rest looks like Pacific or Indian Ocean.
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This detailed image taken by the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on September 12, 2004, shows the planet Saturn's southern hemisphere of clouds, storms and waves in the planet's many latitudinal bands and was taken through a filter where methane gas has strong absorption. Differences in cloud height are not resolvable; the impression of parallel ridges and troughs is an optical illusion brought about by the alternating light and dark bands. Saturn's rings were overexposed in this long duration exposure and appear quite bright. The Cassini spacecraft will flyby Saturn's moon Titan on October 26. (B/W ONLY, NO SALES) REUTERS/JPL/NASA (news - web sites) |
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Well, how about building a pipeline then?
8')
My thoughts, exactly. No oxygen, no combustion.
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I'll be damned... another big ball in the sky.