Oil found off earth

[Traveler]

So much for what we know about oil

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.p...w&pageId=56480

Now all you need is a bit of O2 to warm the place up

[Traveler]

Ooops I see that this one has already been covered, sorry

[Cartesiantheater]

Where was this covered elsewhere? (so I can merge the threads)

So much for what we know about oil

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.p...w&pageId=56480

Now all you need is a bit of O2 to warm the place up

No no no. You see, the word "oil" in this case is non-technical. It just means "hydrocarbon" generically. The hydrocarbons on Titan are the short chain variety like methane and ethane. The kind of oil we use is from very long and complex hydrocarbon chains which (the theory goes) must have been formed from highly organized structures- life.

Analysis of the GCMS findings determined that the methane on Titan was composed of Carbon-13, the isotope of carbon associated with abiotic origins, whereas living organisms have a preference for Carbon-12.

NASA scientists examining the ratio of Carbon-13 to Carbon-12 in the methane on Titan did not observe the Carbon-12 enrichment in the methane of Titan that was associated with organic carbon on Earth, which is rich in Carbon-12.

Our Earth oil is heavy in Carbon-12. Titan's oil is more Carbon-13

Besides, if you put those very same hydrocarbons found on Titan, I'd imagine that a lot would probably just evaporate immediately (due to pressure differences,etc).

Liquid methane and ethane are found everywhere, so I don't think that Titan is going to satisfy our fuel needs anytime soon (which is unfortunate, since it would prompt us to invest more into space travel). I actually had wondered about this a while ago, because I thought Titan could be a huge oil source (again, hoping that maybe we could convince the rich oil gods to spend some money on space technology), but it turns out that the hydrocarbons on Titan are not the same as the oil we use in our vehicles.