Wednesday, February 2, 2005

Is there life on Titan?

I was reading an article the other day that suggested that our bias in favour of water is why scientists seem to preclude the possibility of water. However water is not even a particularly good host for life; liquid hydrocarbons and ammonia might be much more suitable. The best scientific journal there is has speculated on just that possibility in fact.

Imagine - extra-terrestrial life based on something not unlike crude oil! Agent Mulder would have a field day (x-philes will get the inside joke.)

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