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ManaByte

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NASA finds evidence of life on Titan
« on: June 05, 2010, 01:49:20 PM »
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-190
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One key finding comes from a paper online now in the journal Icarus that shows hydrogen molecules flowing down through Titan's atmosphere and disappearing at the surface. Another paper online now in the Journal of Geophysical Research maps hydrocarbons on the Titan surface and finds a lack of acetylene.

This lack of acetylene is important because that chemical would likely be the best energy source for a methane-based life on Titan, said Chris McKay, an astrobiologist at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., who proposed a set of conditions necessary for this kind of methane-based life on Titan in 2005. One interpretation of the acetylene data is that the hydrocarbon is being consumed as food. But McKay said the flow of hydrogen is even more critical because all of their proposed mechanisms involved the consumption of hydrogen.

"We suggested hydrogen consumption because it's the obvious gas for life to consume on Titan, similar to the way we consume oxygen on Earth," McKay said. "If these signs do turn out to be a sign of life, it would be doubly exciting because it would represent a second form of life independent from water-based life on Earth."
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Re: NASA finds evidence of life on Titan
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2010, 01:52:50 PM »
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Stoney Mason

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Re: NASA finds evidence of life on Titan
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2010, 02:51:16 PM »
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BlueTsunami

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Re: NASA finds evidence of life on Titan
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2010, 02:54:21 PM »
The absence of hydrocarbons farther down the atmosphere is obviously a test of our faith from God :smug
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Bloodwake

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Re: NASA finds evidence of life on Titan
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2010, 02:57:39 PM »
The Bore never fails. Christian bashing within three posts.
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Re: NASA finds evidence of life on Titan
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2010, 03:06:30 PM »
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Stoney Mason

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Re: NASA finds evidence of life on Titan
« Reply #6 on: June 05, 2010, 03:15:18 PM »
The Bore never fails. Christian bashing within three posts.

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Re: NASA finds evidence of life on Titan
« Reply #7 on: June 05, 2010, 03:16:44 PM »
The Bore never fails. Christian bashing within three posts.

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Bocsius

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Re: NASA finds evidence of life on Titan
« Reply #8 on: June 05, 2010, 03:39:02 PM »
I love the chain of thought in that piece.

1) Without acetylene, there could be no life.
2) There is no acetylene to be found.
3) Obviously something is consuming it.
4) QED: life.

Dickie Dee

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Re: NASA finds evidence of life on Titan
« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2010, 04:02:42 PM »
Hope they don't unleash Thanos, he be mad niggrish
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brawndolicious

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Re: NASA finds evidence of life on Titan
« Reply #10 on: June 05, 2010, 04:16:51 PM »
I love the chain of thought in that piece.

1) Without acetylene, there could be no life.
2) There is no acetylene to be found.
3) Obviously something is consuming it.
4) QED: life.
didn't they already discover microbes from Mars?

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Re: NASA finds evidence of life on Titan
« Reply #11 on: June 05, 2010, 04:19:32 PM »
"NASA finds evidence that may lead to finding evidence of life on Titan."
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Phoenix Dark

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Re: NASA finds evidence of life on Titan
« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2010, 06:33:51 PM »
How does the existence of life outside the earth discredit the bible?  ???
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TakingBackSunday

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Re: NASA finds evidence of life on Titan
« Reply #13 on: June 05, 2010, 06:41:29 PM »
How does the existence of life outside the earth discredit the bible?  ???

It doesn't, nor does it enhance it.  It discredits the terrible modern Christian-American mindset.
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