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> Of course life on Titan is convinced there could never be life here. The third planet is a literal hell where it rains molten dihydrogen monoxide in an atmosp

• dexwiz 2y ago
  Almost any light hydrocarbon (4 carbons or smaller) vaporizes in the Earths atmosphere. Oxygen is pretty corrosive and we have all sorts of biological systems to slow or prevent this.
• gus_massa 2y ago
  > Any life there would vaporize and oxidize instantly. I don't expect a fast oxydation that set them in flames, but I expect them to fell what you would feel if you take a bath in bleach. To get a nice fire instantly on Earth, you need something like the substances in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoignition_temperature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoignition_temperature . The ones with low temperature are Triethylborane −20 °C (−4 °F): It looks like something that you could find in Titan, but I don't remember reading about that. The structure is not so weird, and there are some similar molecules with nitrogen instead of boron. I don't remember massive natural production of organic molecules with boron, but boron chemistry is very weird and well above my chemistry level. Silane 21 °C (70 °F): It would be more strange to have too many organic molecules with silicon. Phosphorus (white) 34 °C (93 °F): I don't think it's stable enough to be acumulated naturay. It's too energetic and I expect it to react with some of the molecules in Titan.