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Could There Be Life On Titan?
Adam Korbitz writes "Astrobiology Magazine reports on new research indicating extremophile microbes may be able to live on Titan, the sixth and largest moon of Saturn — in spite of the fact that the moon is largely ice and covered with lakes of liquid methane. Titan joins Mars, Venus, Europa and Enceladus as a potential home to extremophile life in our solar system."
TFA is not about Titan being a candidate, but some research trying to recreate (some) of the conditions on Titan.
Of course TFA also is a long, long way away from life. But knowing the building blocks can form there is another step forward.
What does it take for life to come about from non-life. Do we have an idea?
The error - and even most scientists have not understood this - is, to make a spearation between the two.
There is no single moment, where something became "alive".
It's a veeery gradual process, starting with the simples physical/chemical reactions, and evolving to more complex systems.
Even we ourselves are such very complex systems.
See... I do not even have to mention the word "life".
It's just another one of those egocentric concepts, like seeing humans as separate from animals, thinking we were the center of the universe... and so on....
So the problem is purely psychological.
This is the only reason, such an obvious concept is still mostly repressed.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
IAWTP 100%
Egocentric mankind (generally speaking, science community excluded) thinks life means Youtube, Social Networking, Church, and High End Tennis shoes.
I really wish children were taught an early age about the Universe and the life breeding ground that it is. Different conditions produce different forms, it is now up to mankind to acknowledge and accept this.