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nkrisc ◴[] No.43643720[source]
> "Our new study shows that this supply may only be sufficient to sustain a very small population of microbes weighing a total of only a few kilograms at most – equivalent to the mass of a small dog," Affholder said. "Such a tiny biosphere would average less than one cell per liter of water over Titan's entire vast ocean."

Assuming for a moment that some life does exist in the subsurface ocean, I imagine it would be most likely that you would then expect to find very, very rare, but highly concentrated pockets of life?

Unfortunately I couldn't read the linked study because I was stuck in an endless CAPTCHA loop of trying to find an image of a refrigerator among a varying set of only helicopters, ships, and avocados. I feel absurd just writing that.

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1. pavel_lishin ◴[] No.43644286[source]
There's only one refrigerator per liter of images in the CAPTCHA.
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2. marcosdumay ◴[] No.43646891[source]
And unfortunately, the GP's monitor is 2D only, so the total amount of refrigerators was zero.