Cassini Spacecraft Finds Ocean May Exist Beneath Titan

saturndaily.com ^ | 21 Mar 2008 | staff

[oh8eleven]

I think we can respectfully agree to disagree.
NASA funding will continue despite my protestations and maybe someday you'll meet ...

[Diplomat]

"We believe that about 62 miles beneath the ice and organic-rich surface is an internal ocean of liquid water mixed with ammonia,"

Now if it was earth they were talking about this quote would read:

"Ammonia caused by 'Global Warming/oil drilling/man' has all but destroyed 62 miles of this once organic-rich ice river,"

[norton]

Thanks.

This means the crust is (very) flexible &/or loosely bound together(?)

[cerberus]

Anti-Luddite dittos!

[Names Ash Housewares]

“What folly.”

Wake up. You sound like a democrat.

The nations that lead on the frontiers end up dictating the course of human history.

[tumblindice]

“For people like them ignorance is bliss.”

“you people.”

How about “metaphysicians” v. “mutationists”?

[mikrofon]

So now Titan is a cosmic latrine?

What happened re: all the oil & hydrocarbons that were supposed to be there?

[Sudetenland]

Had I been addressing you, your comment would be correct, but since I was addressing Strategerist and not you, your comment was, commensurate with your apparent lack of intellectual curiosity and resultant imputed intellectual incapacity, wrong.

I regret that I was discussing a subject matter above your capacity with someone who comprehends the inestimable value of engaging in scientific investigation of our solar system and our universe.

I sometimes forget that, even among Conservatives, people of vision, wisdom, and fore sight are rare, otherwise John McCain[e] would not be our titular nominee.

[RightWhale]

the crust is (very) flexible &/or loosely bound

Sounds like it isn't so much a crust as a scum of hydrocarbons floating on water. Europa might be somewhat similar but with water ice floating on water.

[Ken H]

Some day Titan will be used as material source for space development

"Unless someone already beat you to it. HAHAHAHA!"

[sit-rep]

lol...

[Enchante]

"We believe that about 62 miles beneath the ice and organic-rich surface is an internal ocean of liquid water mixed with ammonia"

This place is in serious need of some global warming....

[varon]

So there’s water there..... why isn’t there an advanced civilization? Isn’t that all it takes for life to spring up andd then mutate to advanced civilizations? (My emphasis)

There will be as soon as someone introduces the credit card ;-)

[Ignatz]

Cassini Spacecraft Finds Ocean May Exist Beneath Titan

Balderdash! Titan, like Earth, rests atop the back of a giant turtle, who in turn stands on the back of an even bigger turtle. And before you even ask: it's turtles all the way down, mister.

Oh! They may have found an ocean beneath the surface of Titan. Well, that's another matter altogether. I'll get my sunscreen...

[norton]

thanks RW.

Scum with landmarks is pretty formidable stuff.

[Onerom99]

Only in your eggshell brain it does.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

bkmark.