Thread 16841235

If we found oil in space would it be proof life outside earth?

>>16841235 (OP)
Titan, a Jupiter's moon, is a planet with methane/hydrocarbons seas (oil)

>>16841235 (OP)
presumably, as the synthesis of oil is found through life and is yoked scantily

>>16841235 (OP)
Yes if the molecule's chirality is only one side.
If it's around 50/50, then no.
Same with any carbo-hydrates found in comets and asteroids :
Both side 50/50 = molecules build randomly
One side is more than 90/10 = A molecular automaton build it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_(chemistry)

>>16841235 (OP)
oil is abiotic

>>16841235 (OP)
Certain compositions perhaps, but not just liquid hydrocarbons. Titan has more hydrocarbons than Earth and its presence can be explained without life.

>>16841235 (OP)
We can't say for sure that oil can't somehow be made without life.

>>16841235 (OP)
I think there's oil in the tank of the car that Elon Musk send to orbit the sun, so probably not

>>16841309
That was a tesla you retard. It runs on electrons

>>16841321
>what's a hybrid?