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Methane. It is only really transiently generated by geological means and decays quickly when exposed to cosmic radiation. It is also very likely made by any carbon based life ecosystem.



Titan’s athmosphere contains non-trivial amounts of methane but no signs of life so far.


The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, and so on. We don't know for sure there isn't life on Titan; we just haven't seen enough evidence yet.


We can apply the same logic to draw a number of other useless conclusions.


Rather, we can apply the same logic to "not yet draw conclusions", though I do agree with you that not being able to draw conclusions, is useless.




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