By the time we can make regular runs to Titan, we will be using something more potent than hydrocarbons for energy. Petrochemicals make good feedstocks, however.
1 posted on
02/16/2008 8:21:20 AM PST by
jmcenanly
To: jmcenanly
To: jmcenanly
Dinosaurs lived on Titan?
3 posted on
02/16/2008 8:22:27 AM PST by
DManA
To: jmcenanly
By the time we can make regular runs to Titan, we will be using something more potent than hydrocarbons for energy. Petrochemicals make good feedstocks, however.
Thank you for putting that right out in front. On the other hand we may find other uses for it. Maybe burning it on mars to warm the place up a bit.
5 posted on
02/16/2008 8:24:38 AM PST by
cripplecreek
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To: jmcenanly
That sure is a poor choice of words Space.com put in the title. Oil is not the same as liquid hydrocarbon.
6 posted on
02/16/2008 8:24:59 AM PST by
Brett66
(Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: jmcenanly
7 posted on
02/16/2008 8:25:21 AM PST by
BenLurkin
To: jmcenanly
I guess we better hurry up and get there and harvest it before those hydrocarbons evolve into protein and DNA
8 posted on
02/16/2008 8:28:30 AM PST by
mamelukesabre
(Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?)
To: jmcenanly
environmentalists will prohibit any further probing of titan lest it may upset the inter-galactic yellow-bellied space snipe which may, or may not, inhabit this frozen wasteland. studies must be commissioned, federal permits issued..we won’t see any oil from titan in my lifetime..:(
9 posted on
02/16/2008 8:31:00 AM PST by
GeorgiaDawg32
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To: jmcenanly
Not to nitpick on your title but I think the article is referring to natural gas — not oil...
12 posted on
02/16/2008 8:43:36 AM PST by
John123
(Wahhabism is the best choice for anyone too stupid for scientology...)
To: jmcenanly
How’d the dinosaurs get up there in the first place?
14 posted on
02/16/2008 8:45:21 AM PST by
G Larry
(HILLARY CARE = DYING IN LINE!)
To: jmcenanly
Not only was I completely unaware that dinosaurs roamed freely on Titan, but I don't know yet what killed them off!
Poor dinosaurs!
Solar System:2 Dinosaurs: 0
16 posted on
02/16/2008 8:48:26 AM PST by
Logic n' Reason
(Don't piss down my back and tell me it's rainin')
To: jmcenanly
Too bad they can’t find a moon somewhere covered with uranium.
17 posted on
02/16/2008 9:10:31 AM PST by
mamelukesabre
(Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?)
To: jmcenanly
Gas and heating prices would be non-existent if it were feasible to capture the energy there.
18 posted on
02/16/2008 9:25:00 AM PST by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
(The Constitution does not give me the authority to run your life - Ron Paul)
To: jmcenanly
Is all that petro still there since the last thread?
20 posted on
02/16/2008 9:27:23 AM PST by
RightWhale
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To: jmcenanly
OK, what is it about Titan that makes it so uniquely a hydrocarbon magnet. What environment surrounds it?
Specifically, what prevents other planets and moons from being similarly blessed (for lack of a better word).
If I recall correctly, Velikovsky asserted that all earth hydrocarbons were space borne...
24 posted on
02/16/2008 12:07:35 PM PST by
Publius6961
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28 posted on
02/16/2008 8:45:00 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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