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Question Time: Methane, Memes, and Measurement
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Question Time: Methane, Memes, and Measurement

Plus my ill-informed advice on traveling to somewhat dangerous places.

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Jack Dellevigne asks: Why do we call methane a "fossil fuel" when it is widely distributed in the solar system especially the outer planets where is no evidence there was life present to create fossil based methane. Saturn's moon Titan has oceans of of methane.

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