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I don't disagree with the assumptions made here, but the conclusion is bad. Titan is likely unihabitable for life as we know it. There are plenty of extremophil
by RIMR 3y ago
I don't disagree with the assumptions made here, but the conclusion is bad. Titan is likely unihabitable for life as we know it. There are plenty of extremophiles here on Earth that live in places we wouldn't expect life to exist, but we know that they can because we found them.
If we make conclusions that we cannot find life on Titan, then we never will because we won't be looking. Life could be thriving on Titan, but we won't know unless we look for ourselves.
Also, for all we know, Titan's oceans are loaded with organic compounds that are don't originate from the surface. We don't know what the actual internal structure of Titan looks like because we lack the data.
- mbauman 3y agoYeah, that's not at all what the actual journal article claimed. It starts super simple: We know Titan has two things that seem so promising for life as we know it! Organic compounds on the outside, liquid water on the inside. And then it asks: Might those two promising things meet? Other work hasn't found the tectonics that would do it; could cratering do it? And that very particular answer is pretty definitively no.
- thriftwy 3y agoTitan is likely habitable for life as we know it. It's hard to imagine why Titan won't have life around hydrothermal vents and the like.