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
> 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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