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Titan a 'Flammable' Moon Covered in Liquid Gas
Al-Rueters via Yapoo ^
| 1/21/05
| Ben Berkowitz
Posted on 01/21/2005 7:17:19 AM PST by Dallas59
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To: atomicpossum
Is that like 'jumbo shrimp,' then? Actually, the acronym LNG stands for Liquified Natural Gas.
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posted on
01/21/2005 8:49:22 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(All I ask from livin' is to have no chains on me. All I ask from dyin' is to go naturally.)
To: atomicpossum
Sorry, didn't catch that. About a month or so ago, a client wanted to know why I insisted he place WARNING: LNG signs around his pipeline. He absolutely couldn't understand why a liquid was called a gas and felt he would be liable in civil court if the "liquid' caused a problem and it was called gas.
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posted on
01/21/2005 8:50:00 AM PST
by
Safetgiver
(Mud slung is ground lost.)
To: Strategerist
"It took blue-green algae and photosynthesis to give earth the free oxygen we currently have."
And a gravity well the size of earth to keep it from floating off into space.
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posted on
01/21/2005 8:52:44 AM PST
by
monday
To: Dallas59
I have delusions of large pipelines coming down from the sky.....
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posted on
01/21/2005 8:53:14 AM PST
by
Safetgiver
(Mud slung is ground lost.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
ah yes, by the best selling author of "Deadeye Dick"......
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posted on
01/21/2005 8:59:32 AM PST
by
Hi Heels
(Proud to be a Pajamarazzi-Leef lang de Katjes van Viking)
To: lafroste
"In that world, oxygen would be the fuel. You can send oxygen to a bunson burner, for example, in a methane atmosphere and get what is, by all appearances, an ordinary flame."
Good analagy. I was thinking along the lines of a methane breathing Titan coming to earth and being horrified that the atmosphere was largely made up of highly flammable oxygen.
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posted on
01/21/2005 9:00:08 AM PST
by
monday
To: Dallas59
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posted on
01/21/2005 9:17:39 AM PST
by
Fiddlstix
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To: Hi Heels
ah yes, by the best selling author of "Deadeye Dick"...... Actually, I never read a Vonnegut book I didn't like.
Hi Ho!
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posted on
01/21/2005 9:21:24 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(All I ask from livin' is to have no chains on me. All I ask from dyin' is to go naturally.)
To: StoneGiant
"... My hypothesis is that the nuke would sever the H and O bonds, providing the free oxygen that would allow burning..."
Nope. Even if you did disassociate the water molecules, they would just recombine. Oxygen has a much stronger affinity for hydrogen than for carbon, while carbon has a higher affinity (covalent) for other carbon atoms than for hydrogen. Water WILL spontaneously combine with carbon dioxide to create carbonic acid, which many of us purchase and consume daily, but carbon dioxide is probably rare on Titan.
Oh. Carbonated beverages.
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Surprisingly enough, I've never read one at all. Ever read "Gor"?
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posted on
01/21/2005 9:47:33 AM PST
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Hi Heels
(Proud to be a Pajamarazzi-Leef lang de Katjes van Viking)
To: Hi Heels
Ever read "Gor"? By John Norman? No...but I have heard of them and they are on my list of books to read.
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posted on
01/21/2005 10:19:00 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(All I ask from livin' is to have no chains on me. All I ask from dyin' is to go naturally.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Although you should start earlier in the series, "Raiders of Gor" is my favorite.
To: Strategerist
Strategerist, you can sure take the fun out of a thread.
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posted on
01/24/2005 6:30:44 PM PST
by
gitmo
(Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
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