Not A Snowball's Chance


	Not A Snowball's Chance

samannzinnia

5-31-2008 3:05 AM

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samannzinnia says:

I wonder if this information that methane is suspended in a solid form under the water ice, means that the frozen moon of Jupiter has the same opportunity to thaw; How did this happen 635 million years ago?

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