Comments on: Cassini Sniffs Organic Chemicals Leaking into Space from Saturn Moon, Enceladus

By: mystic.smeg

mystic.smeg — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:34:32 +0000

Oyate Eagle Tail

The scientific community is based around the freedom of information on a global scale. This means that scientists know no boundaries and information is shared freely.

Additionally, many of the people that read these columns probably are scientists or know as much.

Just ask your question; it's unlikely you've thought of anything that hasn't already been thought of by someone.

Why not ask prof. Pamela Gay?

Just send a mail to:
Pamela mailto:starstryder@gmail.com
Fraiser mailto:info@universetoday.com

Hope this helps.
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By: Oyate Eagle Tail

Oyate Eagle Tail — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:47:38 +0000

I KNOW THIS IS NOT A QUESTION BUT I REALY NEED TO TALK TO SOME SCIENTISTS AND/OR ASTRONOMERS. THE REASON IS PRIVATE AND IS ONLY FOR SCIENTISTS AND ASTRONOMERS!!!!! thank you and if anybody (Astronomer/Scientist) reads this please email me and I will say and ask what I need, if you ARENT a REAL PROFESSIONAL Scientist or Astronomer don't email me because I will find out this is ONLY FOR THE EYES OF PROFESSIONALS!

my email is

Lexifer_Asfearin@hotmail.com

again if you are a Scientist or Astronomer please email me. thank you for your time.

By: Kevin Koski

Kevin Koski — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:28:02 +0000

Can't wait for the next fly by, I hope our future spaccraft can bring some of the material back home like star dust

By: NeoGuru@aol.com

NeoGuru@aol.com — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:47:07 +0000

My predictions: Life on Titan is stromatolithic and has already been observed. The low mountain range is a huge, stromatolite reef. The chemistry is carbon based, but very different then on Earth. Most of the biochemical transformations will be of a free-radical nature, not ionic. I'll accept my Nobel Prize, but it'll probably be long after I'm gone.

By: NeoGuru@aol.com

NeoGuru@aol.com — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:40:17 +0000

David – I'll add the icy bodies of the Kuiper Belt as candidates for life. It'll be mighty primative, but it's out there.

By: chuck

chuck — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:34:45 +0000

Anybody wanna take some bets? Organic material…….I bet there is life. What kind? I don't have a clue. It appears all the mixes are there…Na, wait a minute. I don't think there is life. Nope! Wait, yes there is…wait, no there isn't. Somebody help me with this. Life…hmmmm no way, no how…..Can we ever know in the near future?

By: owen

owen — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:33:08 +0000

It sounds very promising. Im very optimistic that there is life out there.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:53:40 +0000

Lol David,
I love the enthusiasm as I would love to find out there is other life out there.
That being said, just because there are organic chemicals firing from Enceladus and numerous other bodies doesn't exactly make a prediction for life.

I admit, as a race we have a very narrow minded view of the conditiongs for life, given we only have one model to base it off of (carbon based). However, with that being said, I would say the three most likely canidates would be Mars, Europa and Titan, specifically Titan as it has a diverse atmospheric system and planetary conditions.

By: Iasen

Iasen — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:04:59 +0000

Traveled with 30000 lengths of Madagascan's lizard per second … Please use SI it's a site talking about space science not farmer's crops.

Best wishes.

By: CoolDownUGeeks

CoolDownUGeeks — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:04:54 +0000

Cool down geek-heads. Yeah, I know, your gonna be talking about finding "life!".

By: David

David — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:02:06 +0000

I'll make a prediction right now. There is active life on Earth, Mars, Europa, Ganymede, Titan and Enceladas. And there was life on Venus.
I base this on 1) The difficulty of eliminating life once it starts 2) The apparent multitude of places that meet or met the criteria for life forming: Liquid water, organic compounds and an energy source

By: marcellus

marcellus — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:52:52 +0000

Maybe Cassini's finding shouldn't be all that suprising. I've often heard the mantra; "The Universe is homogenous – that is, everything is the same everywhere." So why not the same for the moons of the outer solar system where these bodies formed under the same conditions?

By: PHWilson

PHWilson — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:29:09 +0000

Primordial material within Enceladus is sooo promising – maybe it will lead to more funding for NASA (hope). It begs to question deeper exploration of our own moon, as in – lets get the heck back at lunar exploration.

By: Mr. LAME

Mr. LAME — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:05:57 +0000

omfg !!
this is gettin intresting
we need more spacecrafts
the true is out there