If life has evolved on Saturn’s frigid moon, Titan, it would be strange, smelly—and potentially explosive, new research suggests.
The conclusions come from astrobiologist William Bains, who presents his research at the National Astronomy Meeting in Glasgow, Scotland on April 13.
“Hollywood would have problems with these aliens,” said Bains. “Beam one onto the Starship Enterprise and it would boil and then burst into flames, and the fumes would kill everyone in range. Even a tiny whiff of its breath would smell unbelievably horrible.
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