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Saturn’s Moon Titan Has Salty Sea
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| Will Phoenix
Posted on 07/05/2014 9:53:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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07/05/2014 9:53:03 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
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....)
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posted on
07/05/2014 10:07:24 PM PDT
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Yossarian
To: Yossarian
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posted on
07/05/2014 10:13:29 PM PDT
by
struggle
To: Yossarian
Life doesn’t have to be like us to be life. I’m sure life will find a way to breathe salt water.
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posted on
07/05/2014 10:13:50 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(I'm a pessimist, I say plenty of negative things. Consider it a warning of sorts.)
To: wastedyears; struggle
...I’m talking abut water as briny as the Dead Sea... That’s way different than normal salt water in Earth’s Oceans....
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posted on
07/05/2014 10:15:22 PM PDT
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Yossarian
To: Yossarian
Because we all know life can’t adapt to adverse conditions.
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posted on
07/05/2014 10:20:16 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Yossarian
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posted on
07/05/2014 10:23:47 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(I'm a pessimist, I say plenty of negative things. Consider it a warning of sorts.)
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07/05/2014 10:33:19 PM PDT
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07/05/2014 10:33:32 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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Thanks BenLurkin. Extra to APoD.
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07/05/2014 10:34:05 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Lurker
I'm just saying it's much harder, that's all.
And, I'm basing my statement on what has been seen with searches for life on the Dead Sea.
I wish people wouldn't stuff words into my mouth that I haven't said...
To: BenLurkin
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.
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posted on
07/05/2014 10:56:30 PM PDT
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MUDDOG
To: Yossarian
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posted on
07/05/2014 10:59:55 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Yossarian
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.And the basis for this bold assertion is...?
Regards,
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posted on
07/05/2014 11:41:36 PM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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....
To: MUDDOG
Inside each molecule there is something that makes it tick, and something inside that,
and something inside that, and on and on and on. The deeper we look for the end
the more we find and the longer we have to wait for technology to catch up
so that we can see more. And if we find the deepest hidden secret behind the exact center
of each molecule, there's something that makes it tick too. God.
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posted on
07/06/2014 12:07:06 AM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
To: MaxMax
It's an age-old question: How far down does it go? There was a Daredevil comic in the mid-'60s where one of his enemies got hit by a shrinking ray and kept getting smaller and smaller until *poof* he was gone.
That stuck with me.
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posted on
07/06/2014 12:17:47 AM PDT
by
MUDDOG
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,
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posted on
07/06/2014 12:21:31 AM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: MUDDOG
It's an age-old question: How far down does it go? Take a number and divide it by two. Take that number and divide it by two. Continue dividing by two. Call me when you get to the end, lol.
What's the old indian saying? It's turtles all the way down.
To: BenLurkin
We need a probe that can scoop up samples and bring them back.
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