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Burning Titan, An ahmosphere on fire
Spirit
post Jun 8 2006, 10:25 AM
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Is it possible to light the atmosphere of Titan. I think that the methane could burn. What will happen if we set a fire on Titan? Will the atmosphere burn and melt down the water ice?


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post Jun 8 2006, 12:57 PM
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Yeah, we've discussed this before. You can't set Titan on fire without oxygen (or it would have burst into flame at the first meteorite impact!)

But it has been pointed out that you can run a gas burner on Titan by doing the exact reverse of what a gas burner does on Earth -- that is, instead of squirting methane into an oxygen atmosphere and then striking a spark, you squirt oxygen into a METHANE atmosphere and then strike a spark. And this could even be used to provide the internal heat for a space suit on Titan (which would also be unique in not having to be pressurized like the space suit necessary on the surface of any other world in the Solar System).
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- Spirit   Burning Titan   Jun 8 2006, 10:25 AM
- - Toma B   Yeah!!! Ka-Booom!!!! T...   Jun 8 2006, 11:24 AM
- - BruceMoomaw   Yeah, we've discussed this before. You can...   Jun 8 2006, 12:57 PM
|- - ugordan   QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Jun 8 2006, 01:57 PM...   Jun 8 2006, 02:20 PM
||- - angel1801   All hydrocarbons have a flash point. The point whe...   Jun 8 2006, 04:06 PM
|- - RNeuhaus   QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ Jun 8 2006, 07:57 AM...   Jun 9 2006, 04:22 AM
|- - mchan   The heat from atmospheric friction would be carrie...   Jun 9 2006, 04:39 AM
|- - tty   QUOTE (mchan @ Jun 9 2006, 06:39 AM) Rive...   Jun 9 2006, 06:05 AM
|- - Richard Trigaux   QUOTE (mchan @ Jun 9 2006, 04:39 AM) The ...   Jun 9 2006, 09:10 AM
- - ljk4-1   Don't be giving any future teenage Titan explo...   Jun 8 2006, 02:03 PM
- - deglr6328   I think angel's reasoning, while interestig, m...   Jun 8 2006, 10:09 PM
- - BruceMoomaw   You've just exactly redescribed the scheme Rob...   Jun 9 2006, 01:19 AM
- - deglr6328   never read anything by Zubrin but certian possibil...   Jun 9 2006, 04:04 AM

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