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Originally Posted by worth
I beleive the oceans are methane, not water. So i'm not exactly sure if life can evolve out of methane, but there could possibly be microbial life there.
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There are microbial life that can metabolize methane here on earth but I think they also need water to make it happen. If the metabolic pathway involves carbon dioxide production then there must be some sort of oxygen source so I'm not sure if that can be accomodated on Titan.
http://www.chemlin.net/news/2006/feb2006/methane.htm