Aliens life discovered on Titan, interpretations.

[Zorg Machine]

I sincerely hope that they look like this

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[Omega V]

Have they ever landed rovers or something of the like on Titan? Perhaps the temperature could be suitable for life due to a "Super-Global warming" because of it's dense atmosphere of what we consider greenhouse gases.

actually they did a few years back, the Cassini probe dropped the small Huygens lander onto a recently dried up lake bed. I suggest visiting the official website if your interested. On your second question, no, Titans atmosphere does not generate a significant greenhouse effect, so its surface is still blisteringly cold. However, Titan likely posses active cryovulcanism (volcanoes that spew molten ice (water!)) These active volcanic hotspots could provide perfect havens for terrestrial style life. The rest of titan could be inhabited by a more exotic form of life that uses methane as its fluid rather than water.

 

[Sephychu]

Have they ever landed rovers or something of the like on Titan? Perhaps the temperature could be suitable for life due to a "Super-Global warming" because of it's dense atmosphere of what we consider greenhouse gases.

Much too far away. It'll take them 5 years to get to Mars, and Saturn is 6 times the distance away.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Well if it is methane based then something like the Grunts from Halo or Volus from Mass Effect for anything that is bipedal.

 

[TrogzTheTroll]

Methane is involved?

Can anybody say "Grunts" from Halo? I can't wait till they develope their squeaky vocal cords.

Edit: Was beaten to it!

 

[WaNNaBJusTLiKeU]

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Maybe?

 

[Fallen-Angel Risen-Demon]

Good... This means Britain can rebuild our glorios empire...
Now where did I put my chainsword?

 

[NotAPie]

Since it isn't anything like Mass Effect I can only say one word to describe how I feel...
Fuck.

 

[sirkai007]

Hoping for the best:

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Yay for twilek slave dancers!

 

[interspark]

dont be ridiculous, life on titan will look like these little chappies

http://interspark.smackjeeves.com/comics/898387/the-intellegent-not-so-intellegent-creatures/

although if thetre methan based maybe theyd be a slightly darker shade of green

 

[Omega V]

Have they ever landed rovers or something of the like on Titan? Perhaps the temperature could be suitable for life due to a "Super-Global warming" because of it's dense atmosphere of what we consider greenhouse gases.

Much too far away. It'll take them 5 years to get to Mars, and Saturn is 6 times the distance away.

no, it usually only takes about 6-9 months to get to mars, and it usually takes about 6-7 years to get to Saturn with today's chemical rockets. And there are plans to send autonomous Dirigible like craft to explore the surface of titan in detail.

 

[the Dept of Science]

If the moons orbiting Jupiter were one of the final nails in the coffin of the geocentric solar system ideas, showing that Earth was nothing special and anything with a sufficiently large mass can have satellites, maybe the life orbiting Jupiter will have some effect on creationism.

On the other hand, nothing has got through to them yet so this might make no difference.

 

[Scorp123]

I think somebody forgot to tell Nasa/Esa about this.

 

[interspark]

actually, my moneys riding on

Spoiler: the titan titans! (see what i did there?)

EXTERMINATE!!!!!

 

[Macgyvercas]

Hoping for the best:

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That is an epic win. I call the green one.

OT: Interesting...maybe this will shut up that one person I know who claims aliens don't exist because they aren't mentioned in the Bible.

 

[martin's a madman]

Have they ever landed rovers or something of the like on Titan? Perhaps the temperature could be suitable for life due to a "Super-Global warming" because of it's dense atmosphere of what we consider greenhouse gases.

actually they did a few years back, the Cassini probe dropped the small Huygens lander onto a recently dried up lake bed. I suggest visiting the official website if your interested. On your second question, no, Titans atmosphere does not generate a significant greenhouse effect, so its surface is still blisteringly cold. However, Titan likely posses active cryovulcanism (volcanoes that spew molten ice (water!)) These active volcanic hotspots could provide perfect havens for terrestrial style life. The rest of titan could be inhabited by a more exotic form of life that uses methane as its fluid rather than water.

Ah, thanks then.

 

[Burningsok]

yeeeah in four billion years we will be either extinct because earth dies out before we have the technology to travel to titan, or still be present and be so technologically advanced that we could probably travel to other galaxies. Hell maybe even to another universe.

 

[martin's a madman]

yeeeah in four billion years we will be either extinct because earth dies out before we have the technology to travel to titan, or still be present and be so technologically advanced that we could probably travel to other galaxies. Hell maybe even to another universe.

As far as I know there is only one universe.

 

[interspark]

Now all I can think of is how those things taste.

well, theyre probably micro-organisms otherwise we'd know by now, so id guess pretty bland

 

[interspark]

Very interesting, but I'm expecting some amount of disappointment. Something tells me that, if it's life, it's something relatively boring, like some sort of space mold. Even worse, it could, like the article says, be explained by something other than alien life.

well, i dought there are air piharannas and plants with eyes otherwise the probe we sent would have let us know