Oil is NOT a So-Called "Fossil Fuel" Rather is Generated Naturally by the Earth

[konradv]

A lake Erie size amount of "Fossil fuels" makes a mockery of the "pressure cooked velicoraptors in geological time" notion of hydrocarbon creation

Liquid methane found on the moons of Saturn is hardly the same thing as fossil fuel, a mix of molecules not found in space. The methane there is the same stuff the gas giants are made of in liquid form. None has ever been found that compares to what we have on earth.

If they had found oil there they would have been proclaiming it was proof life had existed.

If oil was found, that WOULD be a strong indicator of life.

 

[American Horse]

Liquid methane found on the moons of Saturn is hardly the same thing as fossil fuel, a mix of molecules not found in space. The methane there is the same stuff the gas giants are made of in liquid form. None has ever been found that compares to what we have on earth.

If they had found oil there they would have been proclaiming it was proof life had existed.

If oil was found, that WOULD be a strong indicator of life.

Although it is a strong indicator for the potential for life it's not an indicator of life because the outer solar system is where those types of gasses were able to coelesce; those that didn't fall into the sun or get picked up by Venus, Earth, Mars. All the outer planets are mostly gas by volume, so you could expect the larger satellites to condense or distill out gases migrating towards their primaries. Methane is a naturally occuring compound, it's not oil just a similar one in nature.

 

[konradv]

If they had found oil there they would have been proclaiming it was proof life had existed.

If oil was found, that WOULD be a strong indicator of life.

Although it is a strong indicator for the potential for life it's not an indicator of life because the outer solar system is where those types of gasses were able to coelesce; those that didn't fall into the sun or get picked up by Venus, Earth, Mars. All the outer planets are mostly gas by volume, so you could expect the larger satellites to condense or distill out gases migrating towards their primaries. Methane is a naturally occuring compound, it's not oil just a similar one in nature.

I say it IS an indicator of life. What we see on Saturn's moons isn't oil, its mostly methane. For there to be actual oil like we see on Earth, a process involving life would be necessary, IMO. I don't see the myriad of compounds found in crude being made sans life.