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Posted by: GregD 2 years, 5 months agoThe enigmatic Saturnian moon Titan is still yielding surprising new details years after scientists first pierced its thick haze veil. The vision now emerging of Saturn's largest moon, with its giant dunes and oceanless surface, is perhaps a glimpse of Earth's desert future.
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Harbeas
June 12, 2007, 8:23 p.m.I am not sure what this person is trying to say. How can you compare liquid methane to water? They both react differently to the same stimuli and the temperatures are so different how can you make any kind of a comparison?
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buckncindykill
June 12, 2007, 9:29 p.m.Wait a second.......I've been watching the mission very closely now for a couple of years, and the general pervasive attitude was that Titan is a glimpse of how the earth may have formed. Now the story line is, looking at Titan is "seeing" earth's future?
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KSUmarksman
June 12, 2007, 11:33 p.m.I think the general idea is that when the sun matures like stars are believed to do it will become larger and hotter, the Earth's water will see a similar fate as Titan's methane (become mostly vapor).
By the time that this happens to the sun, none of us will be around to see it and our descendants will colonize space...unless they destroy each other first.
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alvinwriter
July 15, 2007, 8:13 a.m.It doesn't really matter if Titan is a model for the Earth's future or past. What's really important is that Titan may have life. More on the search for life on Titan here: http://www.thenewsroom.com/details/474923/Science and Technology?c_id=wom-bc-ar
- Alvin from The Sci-Tech Desk at TheNewsRoom.com
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