Titan May Have an Ocean

olsmeister writes "Titan has been a particular focus of attention because of its dense, complex atmosphere, its weather and its lakes and oceans. Now it looks as if Titan is even stranger still. The evidence comes from careful observations of Titan's orbit and rotation. This indicates that Titan has an orbit similar to our Moon's; it always presents the same face toward Saturn and its axis of rotation tilts by about 0.3 degrees. This data allows astronomers to work out Titan's moment of inertia and points to something interesting. The numbers indicate that Titan's moment of inertia can only be explained if it is a solid body that is denser near the surface than it is at its center."

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[Anonymous Coward]

You don't have to be a quantum mechanic,
To know that this ocean is a little Methanic,
If atmospheric densities remain the same,
Then other hydrocarbons are not to blame,
For the process being just a little too Titanic.

Re:Titan May Have Core Made of Marshmallow Fluff

[cratermoon]

I think you hit on something. Titan is a Cadbury Egg [foodenator.com]!

Re:8)

[Anonymous Coward]

You don't have to be a quantum mechanic,
To know that this ocean is a little Methanic,
If atmospheric densities remain the same,
Then other hydrocarbons are not to blame,
For the process being just a little too Titanic.

There once was a chap called Phong
Who was rapping a lyrical song
When he started to blow
His words didn't flow,
"It rhymes, so what could be wrong?"

A limerick doesn't just rhyme.
One has to consider the time.
It's a concept called meter,
That causes the reader,
To laugh at your lyrical crime.

Re:Interesting Stuff

[Anonymous Coward]

Hi, my name is Joh Deoxiao and I have a limit on data sent through this tap, so I'll get straight to the point: we don't want any of you primitives from the dark ages in our time. I know that you're only like that because you're so energy-deprived that you actually need to do slave work in order to obtain fuel for your cars and have energy delivered to you from power plants. You don't have the basic amenities like fusegens in your shabby brick homes, your farms aren't in automatic reflective folding silos and you haven't built cities on the ocean floor yet. You don't have space manufacturing or astroextraction facilities and your best space capsules cannot even brake to land on Mars unless carrying only the lightest load. Let me tell you that you still have a long way to go, the first human landing on Mars was in 2377, which was only after portable energy problems were solved and they installed reactive braking in the Xinhua capsule. And you'll be sad to know that although we've sent probes to other star systems, we don't have plans to send humans outside our solar system, and to our knowledge there are no other sentient races out there. Oh and there *is* an ocean under Titan's surface but so what, it's a barren world just like the rest of them.