Titan

[Isomotopes]

It is thought among the Astronomers world that Titan one of Saturns moon's crust floats on a layer of water and soluble ammonia compound and also supports complex organic molecules. So could this be the first planet that we find that has some sort of life.

[ronthepon]

Titan's a Moon ;)

 

While yeah, titan does exhibit features similar to the early earth, it's a cold analogue. Really cold. If life would exist (now or later), it would be more cold based.

 

But w00t, we do have liquid water underneath! Wiki says so.

[Isomotopes]

The strange thing about titan though is that the surface will float on the water like a glacier moving down a valley it will not orbit like the earth but will continually change

[Moontanman]

The strange thing about titan though is that the surface will float on the water like a glacier moving down a valley it will not orbit like the earth but will continually change

 

I think you need to elaborate on this, what do you mean Titan will not orbit like the Earth? the Earths crust floats on a layer of dense molten rock. How is the crust of Titan floating a mantle of water any different?

[Isomotopes]

Say you put a ball inside a ball with water separating them the earth the two balls are syncronised i.e if you drilled a hole though the earth they would always be aligned but titan the two balls do completly different things and the holes would never line up after being drilled

[Moontanman]

Say you put a ball inside a ball with water separating them the earth the two balls are syncronised i.e if you drilled a hole though the earth they would always be aligned but titan the two balls do completly different things and the holes would never line up after being drilled

 

Why would you assume this not to be true for Titan?

[Moontanman]

Say you put a ball inside a ball with water separating them the earth the two balls are syncronised i.e if you drilled a hole though the earth they would always be aligned but titan the two balls do completly different things and the holes would never line up after being drilled

 

Actually this is not true of the Earth either, the core of the earth is thought to rotate a little slower or faster than the surface.

[Moontanman]

It is thought among the Astronomers world that Titan one of Saturns moon's crust floats on a layer of water and soluble ammonia compound and also supports complex organic molecules. So could this be the first planet that we find that has some sort of life.

 

Titan could indeed be the home of silicon life using hydrocarbons as a working fluid. The temps are right to make the silanes stable and silicon organic analogs dissolve in hydrocarbons.