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The Sierras of Titan
eldavojohn writes "Cassini has detected the tallest mountains on Titan, a large moon of Saturn. More importantly, clouds have also been detected in Titan's atmosphere. Why is this news important? Well, as scientists scan the skies for the easiest piece of mass to colonize, things that resemble Earth's geology & atmosphere are going to require the least effort & resources. These mountains mean that Titan may have tectonic plate movement similar in some ways to earth's. From the article, '"You can think of Titan as the Earth in deep freeze," said Dr Rosaly Lopes, Cassini radar team member at the US space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "It has a lot of the geological processes that Earth has. In fact, it is more Earth-like than anywhere else in the Solar System. But the surface is very cold; it's about minus 178C."'"
I can only imagine my son kicking the back of my chair for 6 years on the flight there....
When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail
...it's warmer than mid-winter Minnesota then?
"No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture." - Learned Hand
Send the Canadians to Colonize. I used to live in Northern Canada and walked to school in -30C weather with a -40C windchill --uphill and in the dark! Titan should be a cake-walk. Just make sure to send lots of beer and women to uhhhh compensate.
so now we no what Hell freezing over will be like. Come to Titan... where your mother-in-law will actually like you!!!
I eat Karma for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. That's why I don't have any.
I was going to suggest that we simply move Titan closer to the sun...you know...with a rocket or something
A goal is a dream with a deadline
Well If there is one thing humans can do, it's heat up a planet!
Hey, global warming is what we're good at people. Lets attach a big heat tube from the earth to Titan.
We need all the tubes we've got to build the internets out of...
-178c temperatures and highly poisonous hydrogen cyanide gas...I'd be surprised if there were any people left on earth once we figure out how to fly them onto to this thing!
Has anyone started sellings plots of Titan moon land yet?
Isn't that a little like saying the bodies in the morgue are better friends than anyone else I know ?
They're friendly, they'll sit there and listen to me for hours, they're just a little cold on the surface.
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Either Titan gets moved or you make a local energy source. Terraforming the Moon is probably as easy.
Nahh, simply push that gas giant over the edge so she ignites into a second small star in the solar system.
quite easy, just start flinging crap into it until the mass get's high enough to start up the furnace.
Sheesh, you science types have to make everything so difficult.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
..The Tetons of Titan!
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll