I was just reading an article about Titan, one of the larger among the hundreds of moons of Saturn. It intrigued me because it said that scientists had discovered a lake there. I thought, wow, that’s cool. Water is life and, even though it’s common throughout the universe (so they say), it seems pretty rare throughout our solar system.
Lake Titan Kaka – it may look pretty, but you couldn’t drink it and it would smell like shit
No water on the moon. No nothing on the moon. No real water to speak of on Mars. Oh, every now and then somebody trots out a new theory about an ice-cap under the poles or something but it’s not exactly enough to base a colony on. Mars makes the Sahara look like Seattle. When that Dutch team goes up in about 10 years time, they’re going to have to, somehow, take enough water with them and even then, they’re probably going to be doing some serious recycling. Yes, gross minded people, that means drinking their own pee. After suitable processing, of course. Forget about Venus. Nobody’s even thinking about going in that direction.
Then I saw that they are talking about a methane lake. Well, screw you, science writers at the Huffington Post or whatever newspaper you stole that article from. A methane lake is not a lake any more than a Welsh Rabbit is a rabbit.
I read “Lake on Titan” and I think of the resort of the future, sitting out on the old space porch in front of the space cabin, which is made of the recycled ship, of course, sipping a cool drink and watching the changes in the sky, as all the other moons in that belt go whipping by overhead.
Methane is shit. Well, fart gas, anyway. Also quite useful as rocket fuel, so I suppose it is exciting news commercially. Doesn’t make me want to go there, though.
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