River of liquid (methane?) found on Saturn's moon Titan

Dowly · 12-14-12, 09:38 AM

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The amazing astronomy news keeps on coming! This one is very
cool: What appears to be a 400 kilometer long (240 mile long) river of liquid
has been found near the north pole of Saturn’s moon Titan!

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astro...ile_photo.html

Cool.

AVGWarhawk · 12-14-12, 10:15 AM

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That’s just plain amazing. And it sets fire to the imagination

And a few other things if you light a match while checking out the methane!

GT182 · 12-14-12, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

And a few other things if you light a match while checking out the methane!

LMAO... I take it you've tried that too.

AVGWarhawk · 12-14-12, 11:34 AM

Butt of course.

GT182 · 12-14-12, 11:59 AM

Now if we could bottle it and run it in our cars, we'd have free free gas.

kraznyi_oktjabr · 12-14-12, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by GT182

Now if we could bottle it and run it in our cars, we'd have free free gas.

I take it you want job as trucker in Earth-Titan route?

TarJak · 12-14-12, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by GT182

Now if we could bottle it and run it in our cars, we'd have free free gas.

Considering the fuel bill for the return journey it would hardly be free.

Problems at a mining colony on one of Jupiter's moons? Sean will fix it:

Where is that methane smell coming from?

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