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(MSNBC) Cool Surprisingly Earth-like features revealed on Saturn's moon #OccupyTitan   (msnbc.msn.com) divider line 67
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2011-10-17 01:07:36 AM
#OccupyALLTHESEWORLDSEXCEPTEUROPA
 
2011-10-17 01:12:07 AM
It's full of stars.
 
2011-10-17 01:22:39 AM
Yeah, well that's just YOUR opinion man.

Might be a little hard to breath since it's atmosphere is methane...
 
2011-10-17 01:37:35 AM
BKITU: #OccupyALLTHESEWORLDSEXCEPTEUROPA

Lulz.
 
2011-10-17 02:50:13 AM
I wonder if Exxon will air commercials about their awesomeness when they start fracking Titan?
 
2011-10-17 06:49:36 AM
Darth_Lukecash: Yeah, well that's just YOUR opinion man.

Might be a little hard to breath since it's atmosphere is methane...


This was my first thought. Even if LIFE was discovered, and they somehow spoke English and had titties AND gave us free rides out there and loved them some Earth cock and beer, I wouldn't go because, quite frankly I like my water liquid and my air oxygenated.
 
2011-10-17 06:51:47 AM
All your Wall Street are belong to us.
 
2011-10-17 07:07:51 AM
doglover: Darth_Lukecash: Yeah, well that's just YOUR opinion man.

Might be a little hard to breath since it's atmosphere is methane...

This was my first thought. Even if LIFE was discovered, and they somehow spoke English and had titties AND gave us free rides out there and loved them some Earth cock and beer, I wouldn't go because, quite frankly I like my water liquid and my air oxygenated.


You're so damn picky. Haven't you seen The Abyss?
 
2011-10-17 07:12:01 AM
doglover: Darth_Lukecash: Yeah, well that's just YOUR opinion man.

Might be a little hard to breath since it's atmosphere is methane...

This was my first thought. Even if LIFE was discovered, and they somehow spoke English and had titties AND gave us free rides out there and loved them some Earth cock and beer, I wouldn't go because, quite frankly I like my water liquid and my air oxygenated.


I can't imagine any Titanian hotties would love Earth cock, given human body temperature would be to them what an oven on Broil is to us. Blistering magma spooge for everyone!
 
2011-10-17 07:13:15 AM
Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy: Blistering magma spooge

Great bandname right there
 
2011-10-17 07:18:10 AM
Baryogenesis: Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy: Blistering magma spooge

Great bandname right there


umm...for what kind of music?
 
2011-10-17 07:19:40 AM
doglover: Darth_Lukecash: Yeah, well that's just YOUR opinion man.

Might be a little hard to breath since it's atmosphere is methane...

This was my first thought. Even if LIFE was discovered, and they somehow spoke English and had titties AND gave us free rides out there and loved them some Earth cock and beer, I wouldn't go because, quite frankly I like my water liquid and my air oxygenated.


Meh. It would be like a dutch oven at the Amundsen-Scott station.
 
2011-10-17 07:24:48 AM
uttertosh: Baryogenesis: Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy: Blistering magma spooge

Great bandname right there

umm...for what kind of music?


Speed metal/Techno/Klezmer/Porno-jazz fusion.
 
2011-10-17 07:25:12 AM
Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy: I can't imagine any Titanian hotties would love Earth cock, given human body temperature would be to them what an oven on Broil is to us.

You never know. Humans have a very shiat temperature tolerance. Water bears, on the other hand, can survive damn near anything, even complete dehydration and the vacuum of space for a long period of time.

Maybe Titanic biatches have like 300+ degrees of comfort zone and the hot ones like it near to the pain threshold or something.

Or maybe they're just awesome like this NSFW comic: What sex with a Titanic woman might be like for a human male. (new window)
 
2011-10-17 07:40:35 AM
uttertosh: Baryogenesis: Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy: Blistering magma spooge

Great bandname right there

umm...for what kind of music?


Hot Lava! (new window)
 
2011-10-17 07:43:06 AM
Malachi Constant approves.
 
2011-10-17 07:46:03 AM
doglover: Maybe Titanic biatches have like 300+ degrees of comfort zone and the hot ones like it near to the pain threshold or something.

Actually, humans can do that also: The 300 Club.
 
2011-10-17 07:46:04 AM
doglover: Darth_Lukecash: Yeah, well that's just YOUR opinion man.

Might be a little hard to breath since it's atmosphere is methane...

This was my first thought. Even if LIFE was discovered, and they somehow spoke English and had titties AND gave us free rides out there and loved them some Earth cock and beer, I wouldn't go because, quite frankly I like my water liquid and my air oxygenated.



If Darwinism were the law of the universe, complex life would have spontaneously generated and evolved regardless of the atmospheric conditions.
 
2011-10-17 07:56:11 AM
dittybopper: doglover: Maybe Titanic biatches have like 300+ degrees of comfort zone and the hot ones like it near to the pain threshold or something.

Actually, humans can do that also: The 300 Club.


Pfft, 300 Fahrenheit, maybe. Let's see 'em do 300 centigrade!
 
2011-10-17 07:59:20 AM
uttertosh: Baryogenesis: Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy: Blistering magma spooge

Great bandname right there

umm...for what kind of music?


Folk music
 
2011-10-17 08:01:56 AM
...piecing together the map was an intricate and painstaking project because scientists had to comb through the pictures on a pixel-by-pixel basis to adjust illumination differences and other distortions...

msnbcmedia4.msn.com

Really? And that's the best they could do?
 
2011-10-17 08:02:36 AM
doglover: Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy: I can't imagine any Titanian hotties would love Earth cock, given human body temperature would be to them what an oven on Broil is to us.

You never know. Humans have a very shiat temperature tolerance. Water bears, on the other hand, can survive damn near anything, even complete dehydration and the vacuum of space for a long period of time.

Maybe Titanic biatches have like 300+ degrees of comfort zone and the hot ones like it near to the pain threshold or something.

Or maybe they're just awesome like this NSFW comic: What sex with a Titanic woman might be like for a human male. (new window)


[whatthefarkamIreading.jpg]
 
2011-10-17 08:06:49 AM
EnviroDude: doglover: Darth_Lukecash: Yeah, well that's just YOUR opinion man.

Might be a little hard to breath since it's atmosphere is methane...

This was my first thought. Even if LIFE was discovered, and they somehow spoke English and had titties AND gave us free rides out there and loved them some Earth cock and beer, I wouldn't go because, quite frankly I like my water liquid and my air oxygenated.


If Darwinism were the law of the universe, complex life would have spontaneously generated and evolved regardless of the atmospheric conditions.


Lionfish are complex and extant. I don't want to fark one.

dittybopper: doglover: Maybe Titanic biatches have like 300+ degrees of comfort zone and the hot ones like it near to the pain threshold or something.

Actually, humans can do that also: The 300 Club.


Doesn't count. They can't withstand those temperatures for any length of time. I mean, I could hit you with a small propane fireball and it would mostly pass over you harmlessly. Molten steel in small droplets will bounce off your bare skin if you're sweaty. That doesn't mean you can withstand temperatures where blackbody radiation is in the visible spectrum.
 
2011-10-17 08:09:42 AM
Not to mention the fact Jupiter emanates a metric shiat tonne of radiation. Not very conducive to human life, at least.
 
2011-10-17 08:10:39 AM
doglover: That doesn't mean you can withstand temperatures where blackbody radiation is in the visible spectrum

What an odd way to put that

dittybopper: doglover: Maybe Titanic biatches have like 300+ degrees of comfort zone and the hot ones like it near to the pain threshold or something.

Actually, humans can do that also: The 300 Club.


I wanna do that! The streak the south pole bit sounds like fun on its own anyway.
 
2011-10-17 08:11:15 AM
lyndsayj: Not to mention the fact Jupiter emanates a metric shiat tonne of radiation. Not very conducive to human life, at least.

Good thing Titan orbits Saturn.
 
2011-10-17 08:45:10 AM
Baryogenesis: What an odd way to put that

I couldn't find anything but random information on the combustion of propane and I didn't wanna look up the melting point of steel. (3000C would do it, I'd guess, but I'm sure it's lower seeing as iron can be worked at about 1000)
 
2011-10-17 08:54:06 AM
bibliophilica.files.wordpress.com
 
2011-10-17 09:02:02 AM
uttertosh: Baryogenesis: Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy: Blistering magma spooge

Great bandname right there

umm...for what kind of music?


Country/western, duh.
 
2011-10-17 09:04:54 AM
EnviroDude: doglover: Darth_Lukecash: Yeah, well that's just YOUR opinion man.

Might be a little hard to breath since it's atmosphere is methane...

This was my first thought. Even if LIFE was discovered, and they somehow spoke English and had titties AND gave us free rides out there and loved them some Earth cock and beer, I wouldn't go because, quite frankly I like my water liquid and my air oxygenated.


If Darwinism were the law of the universe, complex life would have spontaneously generated and evolved regardless of the atmospheric conditions.


Too obvious. You played your hand too hard my friend. You just equated the theory of evolution with the theory of spontaneous generation, an entirely different school of thought. Dead giveaway ya troll.

/ignore
 
2011-10-17 09:19:46 AM
This was my first thought. Even if LIFE was discovered, and they somehow spoke English and had titties AND gave us free rides out there and loved them some Earth cock and beer, I wouldn't go because, quite frankly I like my water liquid and my air oxygenated.

Those women almost sound a bit like sirens.

/obvious
 
2011-10-17 09:34:01 AM
I follow Occupy Uranus on FB.
 
2011-10-17 09:45:10 AM
Darth_Lukecash: Yeah, well that's just YOUR opinion man.

Might be a little hard to breath since it's atmosphere is methane...


I'd sure hate to lose my breathe there.
 
2011-10-17 11:18:18 AM
Amused:
i279.photobucket.com
 
2011-10-17 11:21:55 AM
doglover: Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy: I can't imagine any Titanian hotties would love Earth cock, given human body temperature would be to them what an oven on Broil is to us.

You never know. Humans have a very shiat temperature tolerance. Water bears, on the other hand, can survive damn near anything, even complete dehydration and the vacuum of space for a long period of time.

Maybe Titanic biatches have like 300+ degrees of comfort zone and the hot ones like it near to the pain threshold or something.

Or maybe they're just awesome like this NSFW comic: What sex with a Titanic woman might be like for a human male. (new window)


That's a huge biatch!
 
2011-10-17 11:28:59 AM
YodaBlues: EnviroDude: doglover: Darth_Lukecash: Yeah, well that's just YOUR opinion man.

Might be a little hard to breath since it's atmosphere is methane...

This was my first thought. Even if LIFE was discovered, and they somehow spoke English and had titties AND gave us free rides out there and loved them some Earth cock and beer, I wouldn't go because, quite frankly I like my water liquid and my air oxygenated.


If Darwinism were the law of the universe, complex life would have spontaneously generated and evolved regardless of the atmospheric conditions.

Too obvious. You played your hand too hard my friend. You just equated the theory of evolution with the theory of spontaneous generation, an entirely different school of thought. Dead giveaway ya troll.

/ignore


Not trolling, just showing some of the fallacies of Darwinism. The greatest being that life would spontaneously generate under nearly any condition and evolve.

Look at the life here on earth. There are species that exist under heavy sulfuric conditions.

too bad you are a closed minded person that will not accept mild criticism of your pet theories. Or do you believe we are the Goldilocks planet?
 
2011-10-17 11:32:09 AM
Abe Vigoda's Ghost: ...piecing together the map was an intricate and painstaking project because scientists had to comb through the pictures on a pixel-by-pixel basis to adjust illumination differences and other distortions...

[msnbcmedia4.msn.com image 474x450]

Really? And that's the best they could do?


img511.imageshack.us
 
2011-10-17 11:32:20 AM
Cubansaltyballs: I wonder if Exxon will air commercials about their awesomeness when they start fracking Titan?

Don't need to frack. Just drop a straw into their atmosphere. (insert 'I drink your milkshake' joke here)
 
2011-10-17 11:42:25 AM
jeffkatz.typepad.com

Of course people already live there...but I don't think you'd want to meet them.
 
2011-10-17 11:47:22 AM
EnviroDude: a

That reminds me... why aren't you on my ignore list? Oh, never mind. Let me go fix that. There's enough idiocy in the world without your ilk adding to it.
 
2011-10-17 12:15:50 PM
YodaBlues: Too obvious. You played your hand too hard my friend. You just equated the theory of evolution with the theory of spontaneous generation, an entirely different school of thought. Dead giveaway ya troll.

/ignore


I hear people saying evolution and spontaneous generation are different things... but I don't buy it.

Same rules - random seeding and selective forces. Throw the right chemicals into the right vat under the right conditions (like tide pools with organic compounds from comets, in a reducing atmosphere on early Earth)... and wait a hell of a long time. Whatever reproduces continues to exist. Whatever reproduces and multiplies, 'wins'.
 
2011-10-17 12:28:29 PM
Unsung_Hero: I hear people saying evolution and spontaneous generation are different things... but I don't buy it

You're right. The reality is that we have a very good collection of evidence for the evolution and biodiversity part. While we have models that explain the origins of life, evidence is much harder to come by. So while there really isn't any doubt that a mechanistic origin of life similar to the processes of evolution occurred, we can't really explain that process.
 
2011-10-17 12:53:38 PM
Here are few Titian chicks I would occupy.

/NSFW, if your work is uptight about classic art.
 
2011-10-17 12:55:18 PM
#Occupy Uranus???
 
2011-10-17 01:27:31 PM
dittybopper: Here are few Titian chicks I would occupy.

/NSFW, if your work is uptight about classic art.


fc04.deviantart.net

approves.

\subtle
\\hint in file name
 
2011-10-17 01:31:42 PM
I dunno... our last visit there got a little creepy...

Link (new window)
 
2011-10-17 02:13:25 PM
The troll does bring up a valid point though.

It would logically hold, that Titan, given the right conditions, should be able to develop and support life. Whether or not that life is "complex" at the time we explore it is miniscule, but we should at least find signs of life forming and/or evolving. Personally, I think we will.

Otherwise, if we did not find such evidence, it would lead us to believe that there might have to be a specific elemental makeup for life to occur. AKA the Goldilocks planet.

It's interesting either way to me, but then again this doesn't contest my views on religion unlike so many others who would need to find a way to reconcile their beliefs.
 
2011-10-17 02:15:07 PM
Also this.

"Titan is the only moon known to be cloaked in a dense atmosphere, which is composed mainly of nitrogen"
 
2011-10-17 02:27:29 PM
uttertosh: Baryogenesis: Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy: Blistering magma spooge

Great bandname right there

umm...for what kind of music?


Contemporary Christian, of course.
 
2011-10-17 02:28:20 PM
justtray: Personally, I think we will.

Personally, I think we already have. Tholins are the vital precursors to terrestrial life. I sincerely doubt that Titan has enough energy to create anything we'd recognize as an organism, but complex long-chain molecules that self-replicate are pretty probable. I think something like a cell would be too expensive in terms of energy demands to actually form- we forget that Earth is pretty luxurious when it comes to energy. Organisms here can be pretty damn wasteful with energy because we have so damn much of it.
 
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