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Will we find life on Titan?

All that methane has to be coming from somewhere, here is the story.  If any of you know the betting odds on this, please write me.

Elsewhere on the science front, humans may be an excessively in-bred species, rendering us unusually vulnerable to genetic diseases.  And our solar system may have formed in a violent nebula.

Posted by Tyler Cowen on January 25, 2005 at 05:34 PM in Science | Permalink

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