Natural gas on Titan?

ROOFCUTTER · Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 8:48 pm Post subject: Natural gas on Titan?

So I sit here and wonder....wonder wonder wonder...

If natural gas is produced by dead animals, plankton and whatnot that has died and collected under caprocks to trap it and keep it under pressure and then left to bake for milions of years to form....where did the natural gas on Titan come from?
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Violent Pacifist · Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 9:03 pm Post subject:

Where did hydrogen come from? Ooooooo....
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Stevo · Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 10:00 pm Post subject:

I'm sure there are other ways natural gas can form...
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Speaker's Xeno · Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 11:20 pm Post subject:

KillerRoofcutter · Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 7:10 am Post subject:

Maybe theres little green men on titan!
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.Bez · Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 9:06 am Post subject:

...wtf it titan?

Jfet Zener · Server Admin Joined: 19 Feb 2003 Posts: 3353

a moon of saturn

X.O.Skeleton · Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 9:39 am Post subject:

ok, who releaced natural gas in my room

it stinks in here, and I think nothing has died in here...hope not...but I wonder where my cat has been for these few weeks
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X.O.Skeleton · Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 11:01 am Post subject:

ohh thnk god, its just me then
nothing to worry now then

and think those gasses have formed when the planet formed or gratualy after it
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Violent Pacifist · Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 3:16 pm Post subject:

No, there's a constant supply of liquid methane on Titan. Scientists are still trying to figure out how its system works.
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KopiKat · Registered User Joined: 15 May 2002 Posts: 923

Natural gas is a derivative of Methane gas. Methane gas is easily created in the atmosphere, and infact it is all the time when lightning bolts occur. Methane is created when CO2 and 2 H2 molecules subjected to electricity or other chemical processes combine to form CH4. This new methane can gather up more carbon and hydrogen atoms, making it a more complex form of methane, such as butane, octane, or natural gas. These are called Hydrocarbons, and they occur all over in nature even without living organisms to create them.

It is quite concievable that the moon Titan had an atmosphere, but the chance that it has or had life is not so concievable.

-KK
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