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Cassini Probe Sees Plastic Ingredient On Titan Moon

Posted by timothy on from the windblown-grocery-bags dept.

Ron024 writes "The Cassini probe has detected propene, or propylene, on Saturn's moon Titan. It is the first definitive detection of the plastic ingredient on any moon or planet, other than our home world, says the U.S. space agency (NASA). The discovery, made by Cassini's infrared spectrometer, is reported in Astrophysical Journal Letters [abstract]."

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  1. It's from the USA by Theophile · · Score: 0, Troll

    As all good environmentalists will tell you, all pollution on Earth is generated from the USA. All trash on other planets must be there because of the USA. If it got there within the last few years, it is Bush's fault. Therefore a new tax must be levied on the US by the citizens of Earth (and citizens of Cassini) to force the greedy capitalist pigs to provide union labor to do trash collection on Cassini, fix man-made global warming on Cassini, and restore it to an Eden-like state.