Science is Drokking Fantastic Because...

[Theblazeuk]

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[ZenArcade]

 

[JayzusB.Christ]

Well played,  sir.

[The Legendary Shark]

Smile for the camera!
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Hubble captures gravitational lensing.
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http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/15861603283_3579db3fc6_o.jpgn

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

Nasa are considering sending a submarine to Titan to sail the methane sea there.

If that's not drokking fantastic I don't know what is

[ZenArcade]

Is there oil on Titan, serious question? Z

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

I don't think there's any evidence. Seems highly unlikely though, you would need complex macrofauna to have existed on ancient Titan to form fossil fuels.

[Hawkmumbler]

Yes, but how long before I can go on a scuba holiday their!

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

Well before you even start worrying about transport, you'd need a scuba suit that could sustain you in liquid methane, which is about -165^oC.

[ZenArcade]

Cheers KP, I remember reading a Stephen Baxter short story where they turned hydro carbons into petro chemicals on the oceans. The oceans contained some form of liquid methane. Z

[The Legendary Shark]

The lakes on Titan are basically lighter fluid. It's been estimated that there are more hydrocarbons on Titan than anywhere else in the Solar System - including Earth.
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www.universetoday.com/12800/titan-has-hundreds-of-times-more-liquid-hydrocarbons-than-earth/

[ZenArcade]

Cool, if we could only stop fucking around killing poor people over resources down here and try and develop some kind of workable off earth industrial base as per Gerard O'Neill, Sagan, Dyson and so many others. Z

[The Legendary Shark]

I wonder if that's what the judges imprisoned on Titan are doing? Filling an endless supply of disposable lighters to sell to other Mega Cities to help fund the Justice Department?*
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*in the prog, I mean, not in real life...

[The Legendary Shark]

www.upi.com/Science_News/2015/02/16/Scientists-fail-to-explain-strange-plumes-spotted-on-Martian-surface/1111424106792/
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Uh-oh, isn't this how the War of the Worlds started?

[Tiplodocus]

Cool, if we could only stop fucking around killing poor people over resources down here and try and develop some kind of workable off earth industrial base as per Gerard O'Neill, Sagan, Dyson and so many others. Z

Maybe send some kind of giant oil refinery in space named after a Joseph Conrad novel that stops off at  remote planetoid LV246  on the way home. That can't possibly end in tears.