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Titan's Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth

Posted by samzenpus on from the black-gold-titan-tea dept.

jcgam69 writes "Saturn's orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes."

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  1. Invade! by Zouden · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hear Halliburton has already won the tender.

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    1. Re:Invade! by lendude · · Score: 4, Funny

      Nah - Weyland-Yutani has got a lock-in on that one.

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    2. Re:Invade! by DigitalWallaby · · Score: 5, Funny

      Lucky it's not Uranus where these 'hydrocarbons' were found.

      Otherwise there would already be a proposal to go out there and drill it.

    3. Re:Invade! by linumax · · Score: 5, Funny

      Invade?! I suppose the right word would be 'liberate'.

    4. Re:Invade! by rootofevil · · Score: 4, Funny

      great use of the cliche +1
      wrong website -1

      total: 0

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    5. Re:Invade! by colmore · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well clearly we now need to spread Freedom and Democracy to the poor oppressed Titians, who will welcome us with roses and be able to finance their own reconstruction.

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    6. Re:Invade! by dgatwood · · Score: 5, Funny

      <speech style="speaker: George W. Bush; dialect: babbling idiot;">

      There is new evidence that Osama bin Laden has been receiving material support from the Titanians. Our will is strong, our resolve unquenchable. We must take swift action to defeat this terrorist threat... from our neighbor to the West... wait... they're to the East now? Well, how did that happen? What do you mean it's night?

      You mean to tell me that they can move their forces to the opposite side of the earth twice a day? How can we possibly win this war? We must reinstate the draft. It will take all our nation's strength to... what do you mean we're the ones who are moving? Oh. Never mind that little draft thing. You saw nothing, you heard nothing. Remember that, 'cuz if you don't, you might someday not be anything.

      But we must stop these terrorists. If we don't stop them now, then one day, we might be singing Hail Titania or something like that, and we wouldn't want that, would we? If there's one thing we must not do, it is nothing, cuz when y'ain't doin' nothin', anything can happen.

      </speech>

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    7. Re:Invade! by weighn · · Score: 5, Funny

      Their current natural regime hasn't ever allowed them the opportunity... hey, its not our fault that God put OUR oil under THEIR sand, oops, I mean in their clouds!
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    8. Re:Invade! by sumdumass · · Score: 4, Funny

      /south park: when Bush describes the need to bomb heaven.\
      UN member: Are you high? or incredibly stupid?
      Bush: I assure you, I am not high.

    9. Re:Invade! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Its depressing but only something like this would cause extensive space programs.
      Well, and the next stop will be some moon containing all that oxygen we need to burn those friggin' hydrocarbons ...
    10. Re:Invade! by kickdown · · Score: 5, Funny

      Titians They are called Titties.
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    11. Re:Invade! by hkgroove · · Score: 4, Funny

      Druidia!

  2. in related news by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. Titan found to have WMDs

    2. GW Bush orders the militarization of NASA

    3. "Mission Accomplished" announced before probes with frickin' laser beams get past the orbit of Mars

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  3. pointless by timmarhy · · Score: 5, Funny

    tree huggers will march on the white house demanding the save titan from the evil corporations and their explotation of a defensless moon.

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  4. We just misheard by Chairboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    "That's no moon. It's a gas station!"

  5. Re:All we need now by Asky314159 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, that'd be great! Maybe if we burn the same amount of hydrocarbons getting the tanker out and back as the tanker itself hauls, it can be marketed as a "carbon neutral" energy source!

  6. Related headline in Titan Daily Times: by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 4, Funny

    Chemical Energy Bonanza: Remote sensors indicate that inner planet "Earth" has hundreds of times more oxygen gas than all known reserves here on Titan.

  7. Non-smoking planet by chord.wav · · Score: 4, Funny

    The hydrocarbons rain from the sky
    Titan, the first non-smoking planet. At least on rainy days.

  8. Re:Big deal by thrillseeker · · Score: 5, Funny

    hydrocarbons are good for lots of things besides fuel, numbnuts

    Does one rub it on to get that effect?

  9. Re:Time for Space tankers to start taking flight by Viceroy+Potatohead · · Score: 4, Funny

    So you've got at least 7 orders of magnitude of cost reductions to work through No problem... Just make a metric-imperial conversion error, and the problem solves itself. Zing!
  10. Re:Thank you by Max+Littlemore · · Score: 5, Funny

    we can just export our carbon to Mars by paying them or any other 3rd world planet that will take it.

    Ummm, Earth is the third world. Mars is the fourth.

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  11. Republican mods can harvest salt from my cods by weighn · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's with /. lately?
    I'm inclined to create a bunch of sock puppets and meta-mod all these sentimental, right-wing, apple-pie-humping mods to their beloved fiery furnace ...

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  12. Mother of all bombs by kanweg · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just invented the oxygen bomb. OK, it doesn't work on all planets, but that is OK. After all, earth is the peace planet, and we bring peace wherever there are hydrocarbons.

    Bert