> ‘"One elephant per year of glycine into an ocean 12 times the volume of Earth's oceans is not sufficient to sustain life," said Neish. "In the past, people often assumed that water equals life, but they neglected the fact that life needs other elements, in particular carbon."’
Titan’s underground ocean is 12x larger than the Earth’s oceans? I had no idea. Wow.
If this result holds, it’s a shame because the gas giant moons always seemed like the only chance of discovering some interesting extraterrestrial life within my lifetime (or the next few dozen generations — the stars are incomprehensibly distant and nearly impossible to visit).