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Oil on Saturn moon?

By James T Harris

Titan_lake NASA scientists have announced that at least one of the giant lakes previously spied on Saturn's moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons - making it the "only body our solar system beyond Earth known to have liquid on its surface", as the agency puts it.

Wow!

The lakes were identified by the Cassini spacecraft, and although scientists couldn't be sure they were liquid, "their dark appearance in radar indicates smoothness and their other properties point to the presence of liquids".

Humm.....

Investigators further suspected these features would be filled with methane, ethane and other light hydrocarbons, but Titan's hazy atmosphere - 95 per cent nitrogen and five per cent ethane, methane and other hydrocarbons - made confirmation difficult.

Uhhh... Friends? Aren't these elements the bases of... oil? Is there oil on Saturn's moon Titan?

Looks like it, which begs the question: How did dinosaurs and other organic materials get on the surface of Titan?

In other words: OIL IS NOT A FOSSIL FUEL!

(That's two I told ya so's in one week!)