Methane-Based Life Possible On Titan

Randym writes: With the simultaneous announcement of a possible nitrogen-based, cell-like structure allowing life outside the "liquid water zone" (but within a methane atmosphere) announced by researchers at Cornell (academic paper) and the mystery of fluctuating methane levels on Mars raising the possibility of methane-respiring life, there now exists the possibility of a whole new branch of the tree of life that does not rely on either carbon or oxygen for respiration. We may find evidence of such life here on Earth down in the mantle where "traditional" life cannot survive, but where bacteria has evolved to live off hydrocarbons like methane and benzene.

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No. It's not.

[zenlessyank]

Can we stop with fly by night theories? We are the only life forms. Get over it. Go feed some poor people. They actually exist. Quit wasting my fucking tax money on your hair-brained ideas.