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Cassini Shatters Titan Theories
Dozix007 writes "The Herald reports: Cassini pierced
the haze around Titan, Saturn's biggest moon, revealing details
that have shattered theories about its composition. It has
atmosphere and soil similar to primordial Earth and may contain the
building blocks of life. Scientists believed bright patches
on its surface seen earlier were pure water ice. But the first infrared
images
taken by Cassini revealed water ice as dark patches because it is mixed
with material that may be organic, raining on to the surface."
all it needs is a strong source of energy and it can start turning into a nice place for life to evolve.
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
But it's more and more sterile, when you go closer. Remember Mars! Not even a drop of water has been found there, not to mention evaporated Marsians.
So the methane or whatever it is must be hailing down rather than raining down.
.. a piece of methane hale coming down at you on titan.
Imagine that
Speaking of that, I could never figure out why scientists would assume such a thing. Certainly there fluids, materials and chemical reactions which can result in life like properties, but exist at very low temperatures. Why do people always assume that you need an earth like environment for life to exist. Maybe all the life-forms we've seen require an earth like environment because we've only seen life-forms on earth. I think that scientists who believe that there's no way life could exist on Titan, simply lack imagination.
Certainly it is unlikely that life exists on Titan, and it is only reasonable that we assume there is none until we have proof to the contrary, but the possibility is still there.
I, for one, welcome our Titan Masters!