[LasVegasMac]

Just to be friendly, we really should warn Titan about AlGore.

[Greg F]

It is self-evident that a pipeline would be impracticable given the distances involved. A more practical solution might be to simply blow Titan out of Saturn's orbit into an orbit around Earth using nuclear weapons and then simply build a pipeline from there.

We could also consider shrinking everyone on earth to reduce our energy usage.

[Greg F]

It is self-evident that a pipeline would be impracticable given the distances involved. A more practical solution might be to simply blow Titan out of Saturn's orbit into an orbit around Earth using nuclear weapons and then simply build a pipeline from there.

We could also consider shrinking everyone on earth to reduce our energy usage.

[MeanWestTexan]

Ladies and Gentlemen:

we have just discovered our economic reason to go deep into space.

[Billthedrill]

OK, lemmesee (sound of calculator furiously clicking) - I figure that’s just about a 20 million gallon drive assuming I don’t get a headwind in space. Piece of cake if I could just figure out where I’d pull over to pee.

[Old Professer]

From WIKI a year ago (apparently, this is a new concept spurred by the greenhouse effect on scientists trying desperately to prove...-...something...)

“A cryovolcano is, literally, an icy volcano. Cryovolcanoes form on icy moons, and possibly on other low-temperature astronomical objects (e.g., Kuiper belt objects). Rather than molten rock, these volcanoes erupt volatiles such as water, ammonia or methane.[1] Collectively referred to as cryomagma or ice-volcanic melt[1], these substances are usually liquids and form plumes, but can also be in vapour form. After eruption cryomagma condenses to a solid form when exposed to the very low surrounding temperature. Some scientists[attribution needed] speculate that the cryovolcanoes on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, may harbor extraterrestrial life.

The energy required to melt ices and produce cryovolcanoes usually comes from tidal friction. It has also been suggested that translucent deposits of frozen materials could create a sub-surface greenhouse effect that would accumulate the required heat.

It is hypothesised that the Kuiper belt object Quaoar has exhibited cryovolcanism in the past. In this case, the source of energy would be radioactive decay.”

[Reily]

Sarcasm mode on: Can the invasion of Titan be far off ! Sarcasm mode off: !

[P8riot]

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

[The Pack Knight]

Of course, once we’re able to get at those hydrocarbons, we’ll probably be more interested in mining the Helium-3 from Jupiter.

[rfp1234]

Titan's surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth

Nonsense! I'm sure his personal hygiene is much better than that.

[Logical me]

Scotty, beam it down to earth.

[Kevmo]

All the best comments about dinosaurs are already loaded up on this thread, so all I have left is to ping you for a possible not-a-ping item. The comments on this thread are hilarious.

[TruthWillWin]

Yep, and all the oil came from decomposing dinosaurs.

[jonrick46]

Beam me up, Scotty!

[NewJerseyJoe]

I’m sure Sen. McCain will vote against drilling on Titan.

[Mike Darancette]

What life died to make all that fuel?

[redgolum]

If this is true, then geologists are going to tie themselves into to knots trying to explain it.

[Fred Nerks]

Saturn's orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

The term 'tholins' was coined by Carl Sagan in 1979 to describe the complex organic molecules at the heart of prebiotic chemistry.



I'm more interested in Tholians, myself.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

But we can’t mine the carbon material from Titan because the evil CORPORTIONS might spill some of the oil raining down form the sky and impact on of the numerou ecologically sensitive native species of plants and animals that just might, maybe, possibly, could inhabit that frozen wasteland. You never know.

Being environmentally sensitive, we simply CANNOT take that chance.

And we can’t allow the transportation of that carbon material through space as there just might be a spill of it into space’s vast wilderness and we CERTAINLY wouldn’t do that.

No! Still, we will be more happy to perform the requisite environmental studies in triplicate for a few eons before issuing our proclamation of “no drilling, scooping, sucking” on Titan.

Sorry y’all. It’s for the children...