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Titan Has More Oil Than Earth
Space.com ^ | 13 February 2008 | Staff

Posted on 02/14/2008 9:35:37 AM PST by Magnum44

Saturn's smoggy moon Titan has hundreds of times more natural gas and other liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, scientists said today....

(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: abiogenic; abiotic; dinosaurs; energy; fossilfuel; fossilfuelmyth; globalwarmingscare; greenieweenies; oil; peakoil; postit3moretimes; thomasgold
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Finally we can put to death the myth that oil is from dead plants and animals...or is someone going to claim that Titan was once a tropical jungle?
1 posted on 02/14/2008 9:35:39 AM PST by Magnum44
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To: Magnum44

Yeah, but it’s gonna take one heck of a pipeline to get it here.


2 posted on 02/14/2008 9:36:44 AM PST by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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To: Magnum44

According to LOST we have no rights there.


3 posted on 02/14/2008 9:36:46 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: Magnum44

No drilling on Titan... it must be kept “pristine”. ;-)


4 posted on 02/14/2008 9:36:50 AM PST by rhombus
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Let’s invade Titan!/sarc


5 posted on 02/14/2008 9:39:53 AM PST by SolidWood (All conservative effort into retaking Congress!)
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Titan Has More Oil Than Earth

No wonder the NFL franchise in Tennessee was initially called the Oilers before changing the name to the Titans.

6 posted on 02/14/2008 9:40:30 AM PST by VRWCmember (McCain 2008 - If it's inevitable, you might as well lay back and try to enjoy it.)
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[Titan Has More Oil than Earth]

In other news, Senate dhimmiecrats sponsor bill to ban oil exploration on Titan...


7 posted on 02/14/2008 9:42:34 AM PST by 43north (I hope we are around long enough to become a layer in the rocks of the future.)
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To: SolidWood

NO SPACE TRAVEL FOR OIL. < / S>


8 posted on 02/14/2008 10:00:01 AM PST by weegee (Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
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To: xzins; blue-duncan; P-Marlowe; Corin Stormhands; XeniaSt; Quix

That’s funny; for years the evolutionists here on FR and elsewhere have been claiming that being able to figure out where oil will be found counts as a “prediction” and/or useful discovery by evolution. I guess this means there were dinosaurs on Titan, huh? (Quick, someone find an old sci-fi movie to fit!)


9 posted on 02/14/2008 10:05:31 AM PST by Buggman (HebrewRoot.com - Baruch haBa b'Shem ADONAI!)
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Dinosaurs are Titans.

:>)

Many have asked what became of those dinosaurs during Noah’s flood. It now appears that “Chariots of the Gods” carried them all to Titan prior to the great flood.

Once there, they turned to oil and other neat hydrocarbons.


10 posted on 02/14/2008 10:11:00 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain -- Those denying the War was Necessary Do NOT Support the Troops!)
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To: No Truce With Kings

Someone call Halliburton.

Now they can control the solar system as well.

/s


11 posted on 02/14/2008 10:12:24 AM PST by wardaddy (Political Correctness is to Western Culture what the Aids virus is to the cake community)
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Oil?

Not even a drop of Jeri-Curl my man!


12 posted on 02/14/2008 10:14:25 AM PST by wardaddy (Political Correctness is to Western Culture what the Aids virus is to the cake community)
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To: Magnum44

Time to drill Titan!


13 posted on 02/14/2008 10:14:51 AM PST by NeoCaveman (other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the theater)
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To: Magnum44

Perfect use for the digital conveyor.


14 posted on 02/14/2008 10:17:54 AM PST by Sybeck1 (It's truly bad when your Savior in November is Judas Himself.)
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To: Buggman

15 posted on 02/14/2008 10:18:37 AM PST by weegee (Those who surrender personal liberty to lower global temperatures will receive neither.)
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Don't bury it prematurely.

From the article:

At minus 179 degrees Celsius (minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit), Titan would be an awful place to live. Instead of water, liquid hydrocarbons in the form of methane and ethane are present on the moon's surface, and tholins probably make up its dunes. The term "tholins" was coined by Carl Sagan in 1979 to describe the complex organic molecules at the heart of prebiotic chemistry.

Methane (CH4) and Ethane (C2H6) are only the most basic of hydrocarbons. They are a far cry from what is commonly known as "oil", and are only liquid because of the extreme cold there.

Every oil field on Earth has been traced to an organic source.

16 posted on 02/14/2008 10:19:07 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Magnum44

Ethane and methane are not oil. Neither is a component of gasoline or diesel. Completely misleading/false title by the author.


17 posted on 02/14/2008 11:46:58 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Magnum44
Titan Has More Oil Than Earth

I would bet that there's no earth on Titan, by definition.

18 posted on 02/14/2008 11:49:24 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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“Titan Has More Oil Than Earth”

That’s alright. This election cycle the candidates have more gas than brains.


19 posted on 02/14/2008 1:42:23 PM PST by blue-duncan
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That’s alright. This election cycle the candidates have more gas than brains.

At almost 50, I don't have to wait for an election cycle.

20 posted on 02/14/2008 1:43:34 PM PST by Corin Stormhands (New and Improved! Now with 4 less lbs.)
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