Initial findings have revealed an abundance of methane on the surface of Titan.
"Further exploration has revealed a wrecked automobile registered to Sen. Edward Kennedy."
Coincidence? I think not.
subterranean bacteria?
Gosh, I was wondering if we'd be able to harvest the cattle there for meat.
Cesspool of the Solar System?
To Paraphrase Jean, "What are you looking at, it wasn't me?!?!?!"
In this case we have a place where the Dimbulbs can migrate to. Their migration would improve the life quotient on both Titan and the Earth. Titan's would increase to the level of pond scum and the Earth's level would increase to genius level.
A Win Win!
Life is not "likely" around ocean-bottom fumaroles, either, but nonetheless it does exist.
I wonder if all that methane (the same gas we use in most
of our stoves) is causing Titan global warming?
Wonder how long it has been there, and wonder how
much of it escapes the planets gravitational pull, and
how much is produced on the planet. If it is produced by
geological processes, how much of the raw material is
on that moon? How much is left?
Any body know?
Why are our planets so different from each other, both
in chemistry (including our solid rocks/metals/magma)
when they came from the same interstellar stuff(presumably)
All very interesting.
Oh really! -290F and they say life isn't likely - how profound. $3000,000,000 of someone's tax money (I understand that about 1/4 of it came from yirip) to discover that Titan is frozen lump of rock, ice, and primitive hydrocarbons. And to discover that Saturn is a big cold ball of gas.