I've always been weak on the details. So you're saying that our ancestors
didn't emerge from the Big Fart, they created it? Makes sense to me.
Mark
At 08:58 PM 1/15/2005, you wrote:
>Unless Titan has microbes to digest it, the methane there
>probably has no odor.
>Too bad: one might expect more from a Saturnian turd.
>
>~ Dan
>
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>From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 2:25 PM
>Subject: the news from space
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>
>>Titan, the moon of Saturn from which eurospace has been beaming back info,
>>is said to have oceans of liquid methane and an atmosphere largely
>>composed
>>of the gassy version of same. No one has commented on the likely smell,
>>but
>>the scientists have been saying that conditions on earth may have been
>>similar before the appearance of life. Which is to say that our ancestors
>>emerged from a great fart, or maybe a bowl of sauerkraut. I've long
>>suspected as much.
>>
>>Mark
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