Lakes of Gasoline
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/titanlakes.htm
“Saturn’s orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes.
“The new findings from the study led by Ralph Lorenz, Cassini radar team member from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md., are reported in the Jan. 29, 2008 issue of the Geophysical Research Letters.
"Titan is just covered in carbon-bearing material — it’s a giant factory of organic chemicals," said Lorenz. "This vast carbon inventory is an important window into the geology and climate history of Titan."
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Maybe and of course there is a lot we don’t know about Titan but thanks to the probes “we” know a lot about Titan and the outer Solar System – it’s all about the more we know the less we know.
Given the common history of Titan and the earth – those Lakes of Oil challenge the stories most of us were told about the origin of oil being “like the origin of coal” – a geological storage of dead organic material.
The “fact” of its existence gives weigh to belief that oil here (and on Titan) is a data supporting the abiotic origin of oil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin
The amount of the oil Titan and here on earth is too much Oil to be explained by abiotic process alone.
As per the links below biotic process can make oil but it can also consume it as per the “where has all the oil gone”
below two more links to add to the confusion which comes with knowing.
http://eyrie.shef.ac.uk/will/eee/cpe630/comfun9.html
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v2/n1/origin-of-oil
Of course “the tuth is out there”.
Maybe BP sold a lot of it.
Maybe it’s “sweet crude”.
THINK
