Titan's surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth

SpaceRef.com ^ | February 13, 2008 | ESA

[Etoo]

Movie Trivia:

Both Nostromo and Sulaco are tributes to a novel written by Joseph Conrad - who also wrote “Heart of Darkness”, which inspired Apocalypse Now.

[Turborules]

this wonderful scientific finding...PROVES that the Oil here on earth is not from Dinosaurs and plants, and that it has all been a shell game to give the consumer the false impression that Oil is limited, and more scarce every year...and this is just total bunk! How in the hell could we possibly get Billions of barrels of oil from Millions of Dinosaurs

[Greg F]

No more wars for surface organics!

[Lee'sGhost]

In space, no one can hear you scream.

[RobRoy]

>>Several hundred lakes or seas have been observed, of which dozens are each estimated to contain more hydrocarbon liquid than the entire known oil and gas reserves on Earth. Dark dunes cover some 20% of Titan’s surface, and comprise a volume of material several hundred times larger than Earth’s coal reserves.<<

So, what if I were to go there and, like, you know, strike a match? Is there enough oxygen to get it going. It could be an interesting teraforming experiment.

Or is that too “plan 9 like”?

[P-Marlowe]

There must have been a sh** load of dinosaurs and ancient plant life on Titan to have turned into all those hydrocarbons....

The Dinosaurs didn't go extinct. They went to Titan.

[Old Professer]

I was walking around a small goat trail near the top of a mountain when I saw the sun go out - I was about 11 at the time.

[Greg F]

I was walking around a small goat trail near the top of a mountain when I saw the sun go out - I was about 11 at the time.
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Was it dusk turning to night, Old Professor?

[Old Professer]

Big fat dinosaurs!!!

[Tax-chick]

LOL!

[P8riot]

Let’s move Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Iran to Titan and let them figure out how to market the oil.

[Greg F]

In space, no one can hear you scream.
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My wife probably could. She hears if I fidget or play with toenail.

[Tax-chick]

Sigh.

[Old Professer]

The Solar wind would blow it out.

[ExSES]

The Dinosaurs didn't go extinct. They went to Titan.

They were all rounded up and transported by the mothership?

[Old Professer]

No, it was early morning just before my mama woke me.

[ksen]

If, however, you can process it in place, then it becomes an interesting fueling station in the middle of our Solar System.

I'll be damned if I'm going to drive all the way out to Titan every time I need to fill up my Toyota . . .

[DaiHuy]

Organic in simple terms means that it contains carbon.

[M203M4]

Wouldn’t Algore just love it if we started importing and burning carbon from other planets? It would almost be worth the trouble just to make him even more insane.

LOL! With the giant launching pad and landing strip in ANWR, Halliburton slaps a few Saturn V in parallel together and launches a monstrous oil platform toward Titan. I hope Gore (and McCain) reads this and has trouble sleeping.

[Greg F]

Ah. I was in an underground city with an indoor quarter mile running track and big greenhouse like glass ceilings. I was around 11 then too.