In reply to Harry Veeder's message of Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:43:38 -0500: Hi, [snip] >"As an astronomer reading spectrographs," Corsi noted, "Gold knew that >hydrocarbon products such as methane are abundant in our solar system. Gold >knew that the abundant methane on Titan, the giant moon of Saturn, did not >get formed by little dinosaurs up on Titan, or by any other kind of >biological material. So far as we know, nothing living has ever been found >on Titan." > Both Oxygen and Carbon form part of the carbon fusion cycle, so IMO both should be present in nearly equal quantities. Oxygen is the most abundant element on Earth => there should be lots of carbon in the Earth, but perhaps most of it is tied up in carbonates (marble).
Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
