Ten years from now, Titian red thunderheads will let loose a barrage of propane hailstones and torrents of LNG will fall, filling Titan’s great lakes with enough unleaded High Test to float a supertanker. If all the methane in Titan’s atmosphere condensed, the feckless moon would be thirteen feet deep in gas, not counting sea level rise due to global warming.
Eat your heart out, Ibn Saud. There’s more oil on the South Slope of Titan than a Nigerian politician could steal — 150 million barrels per capita for every man woman and child on earth, Texans included. Glory be to NASA, we have seen OPEC, and it is us.
Last Gas Before Pluto (Adamant)
Hee.
Cassini-Huygens (JPL)
I’m not sure whether this Russell Seitz is serious about climate change or not, but he certainly seems unserious about energy efficiency. What up?
I’m certain it’s nothing that can’t be solved without some sort of ENORMOUS PIPELINE.
We could use the hydrocarbons we get through the pipeline to power a cooling system that would handle climate change.