"...Great Merciful Huygens"
Posted on 06/04/2010 2:27:04 PM PDT by James C. Bennett
"...Great Merciful Huygens"
Understood. Most of the discussions we had were completely theoretical and were not bounded by the physical or chemical realities of that environment. In the case of Titan, there’s already an atmosphere and likely the potential for success with terraforming.
I think it would be easier to terraform Titan than Mars..
If the life-forms there are intelligent, they should close their planetary borders to liberals.
Methane is not considered a fossil fuel. It is the simplest organic compound, and was proven to be produced through biological and non-biological process in the 18th century.
We need to give these scientists credit. They did the opposite of what the global warming con-artists do. They had a hypothesis of how an alternate biological process would work. They projected what it would look like if the processes were running on the moon. Then they looked to see if the evidence was there. (Actually, they tried to disprove the theory ... that’s the way the scientific method is applied.)
They also admit this doesn’t prove the theory. The only thing they can do at this stage is disprove the theory.
Where's my shotgun?
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