He envisions molecules magically coming together like leprechauns in the frozen wastes of Titan starting an epic journey toward life. “NASA research has shown that cell-like compartments called vesicles could form naturally in the lakes of Saturn’s moon Titan,” he teases, ramping up the perhapsimaybecouldness index far beyond the limits of scientific modesty.
He knows better.
Titan is all ice, with a surface -290° F, with polar lakes of hydrocarbons. Those lakes are as far from life as oil slicks are from birds dying on a polluted beach after an oil spill. Oh, he thinks, but maybe there could be life as we do not know it!
Aaron might shift the blame for this wandering wondering to the clueless atheists who recently published in the International Journal of Astrobiology dreaming on company time that “stable vesicles might form on Titan” that might represent a step toward what life needs someday over the rainbow.
"Titan is the only world apart from Earth that is known to have liquid on its surface. However, Titan’s lakes and seas are not filled with
water. Instead, they contain liquid hydrocarbons like ethane and methane. On Earth, liquid water is thought to have been essential for the origin of life as we know it. Many astrobiologists have wondered whether Titan’s liquids could also provide an environment for the formation of the molecules required for life – either as we know it or perhaps as we don’t know it – to take hold there."
Aaron might shift the blame for this wandering wondering to the clueless atheists who recently published in the International Journal of Astrobiology dreaming on company time that “stable vesicles might form on Titan” that might represent a step toward what life needs someday over the rainbow.
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