These great hollow globes of artificial super-metals, and artificial transparent adamant, ranged in size from the earliest and smallest structures, which were no bigger than a very small asteroid, to spheres considerably larger than the Earth. (Olaf Stapledon, STAR MAKER)
Saturday, May 26, 2018
Methane World
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows an ice-cold world that is always a hot topic of debate. Saturn's major moon Titan, shrouded in a dense atmosphere, sprinkled with liquid (I did not say water!) rain and covered with liquid (again, not water!) oceans. Is there life there? To use that (in)famous phrase found in so much science fiction "...as we know it?"
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