Cassini 'Tastes' Organic Material at Enceladus 70
Riding with Robots writes "As previously reported, the robotic spacecraft Cassini recently flew through the mysterious geyser plumes at Saturn's icy moon Enceladus. Today, NASA released the preliminary results of the flyby, including some intriguing findings, such as organic materials 20 times denser than expected and relatively high temperatures along the fissures where the geysers emanate. 'These spectacular new data will really help us understand what powers the geysers. The surprisingly high temperatures make it more likely that there's liquid water not far below the surface,' said one mission scientist."
suspicions confirmed (Score:5, Funny)
Gawd, i knew it. The primordial hell-brew of the universe is Mountain Dew.
I am with Jack Handy... (Score:3, Funny)
nasa should wisen up (Score:3, Funny)
...and it tastes like (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Organic? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Organic? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Not in the chemistry world (Score:1, Funny)
No, no, no... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:nasa should wisen up (Score:4, Funny)
Oli G. Archy, head of Chevron says "We believe a giant straw-like tube would significantly advance our knowledge of the known universe and help our neighbours in the solar system acheive democracy."
Re:Organic? (Score:3, Funny)
And now we get to the real problem with extraterrestial organic molecules. There's usually so much methanol (CH3OH), that drinking the stuff would be rather lethal. So you still need to do distillation to get pure enough ethanol. So there's no point sending people out there, because it's as easy to just make the ethanol here on earth using traditional methods. That's why it's better to send robots.
User Friendly knows what they found.... (Score:3, Funny)