Titan’s surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth

European Space Agency ^ | 02/13/08 | European Space Agency

[Acrobat]

Well, we won't be able to drill there because of the danger to pre-life organic material...

Unless that life looks like a fetus, then drill away!

[Alter Kaker]

...At a balmy minus 179º C...

Maybe the residents of Titan should consider burning a few of their hydrocarbons to get a little global warming underway. 179 below? That's worse than Bismarck.

[Red Badger]

and Titan doesn’t have Global Warming?.........

[utherdoul]

I can hardly wait until three or four thousand years from now we’re complaining about the “Outer System Energy Cartel” as opposed to OPEC.

[Para-Ord.45]

{puts cigarrette to mouth}

Hey buddy, got a match ?

[Billthedrill]

“Earth First - we’ll mine the other planets later.” But NO! Let’s mine ‘em now!!

[17th Miss Regt]

Lakes of hydrocarbons? Good God, what an awful mess! We must immediately designate Titan as a Superfund site and begin pollution remediation efforts.

[RightWhale]

How does Titan get from methane and ethane to oil? Or does Titan actually not have oil?

[SlowBoat407]

and Titan doesn’t have Global Warming?.........

Of course not, you fu-el. No Americans = No Global Warming!

[ontap]

Wait a minute! Where did Titan get decomposing plants and dinosaur’s to become oil deposits.

[avacado]

Are the ducks OK?

[Alright_on_the_LeftCoast]

I move to immediately send Manbearpigdog Algore to Titan to solve the problem.....

[Resolute Conservative]

Is it sweet crude or oil sands? Either way we cannot get them for fear of damaging the rest of the moons habitable zone :)

[Red Badger]

We should build a fleet of tankers to go there and fill up.............

[maclay]

Wait a minute! Where did Titan get decomposing plants and dinosaur’s to become oil deposits.

All life on Titan died out 3 million years ago due to the attempted prevention of a global warming trend which they percieced themselves to be the cause of. ;)

[ConservativeMind]

This just can’t be possible. Everyone knows that oil only comes from dead plant matter. One gone, there is no more, right?

/sarcasm

[taxcontrol]

Ok, so we build a nuke powered pumping station, put in geosync orbit above Titan who's gravity is only 1/7th of Earths; drop down a long tube with multiple integrated pumps; suck up the materials, send to a refining plant on the orbiting station, and then send vast space barges to earth.

The we need a means of a return to the earth to get into the market.

What would be the size of the chemical spill of a 1ft diameter pipe all the way out to geosync orbit on earth?

[Little Pig]

Titan doesn't have oil. It has simple hydrocarbons like ethane, methane, and other small molecules. That having been said, fire up the Nostromo! There's fuel on that thar moon!

[D-fendr]

OT:

Is everyone else getting these � characters in posts like I am?