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Hydrocarbon Rain Swells Titan's Lakes
Rob Carr writes "According to the Cassini team, 'Recent images of Titan from NASA's Cassini spacecraft affirm the presence of lakes of liquid hydrocarbons by capturing changes in the lakes brought on by rainfall.' The northern lakes are now larger following a period in which hydrocarbon clouds covered their skies. (The research was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.) This change adds to the evidence these areas are indeed hydrocarbon lakes. But this discovery raises several more questions: where is the methane in the atmosphere coming from, and how long can this complex hydrocarbon cycle on Titan go on? The new evidence emphasizes the need for another mission to Titan."
and would have enriched those antagonists who lost had they instead emerged victorious.
Often it did regardless. Those residents of the losing antagonist nations who got quite rich were often the ones promoting the wars to their nation while avoiding actually sacrificing anything for it. Victory, while desired, wasn't really the main goal. As long as they could avoid getting killed, they could quite happily loot their own nation at the expense of the blood of the people they don't give a shit about. Just look at Cheney and the rest of the chicken hawks and America's recent disastrous to all but a few, "wars".
As long as you're not dumb enough to enlist and are lacking enough in basic ethics as to happily have the fools who are dumb enough killed for your benefit, you can make quite a healthy profit doing so. Hell the families of those who you murdered to get rich will support you because to not support you would be to admit that they were dumb enough to get duped and that their loved ones are dead for nothing except your profit. Licking your boots is preferable to basic honesty and respecting their lost family to most people. The power of self delusion should never be underestimated.