I’m a mailman, walk 6/8 hours a day with my earbuds in. I think I’ve listened to every one of your videos. Helps to make the day go faster & I learn so much about space. Thank you
I often listen to his channel here on long drives playing it via TH-cam, but just listening it as I drive. It is certainly a channel where the videos can be converted to a podcast.
"By will alone i set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of safu that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning... it is by will alone i set my mind in motion"
The fact that Titan is "bathed in a thick, orange fog" is the reason that the extra-terrestrials that evolved there invented the foghorn before they invented the wheel.
One thing I've not heard anyone address re: potential life on Titan - fossils. Water freezes so solid on Titan, its strength is comparable to granite. That means that if there is life on Titan, any fossils that may exist there could possibly be contained in ice instead of rock. I think that would be a cool thing to see (pun fully intended).
If we get a drone on Titan and have a clear enough time to get a picture of Saturn floating above it, massive and just hanging there, then sci-fi artwork, video games and movies are no longer gonna suffer from having that kinda thing in the background. It'll finally be grounded in reality for our brains, we will finally see it and accept it. It'll be up there as one of the greatest photos ever taken in space. I can only think of maybe 5 that will be comparable.
I absolutely love this channel. Interesting content, made by someone with genuine, obvious passion for the subject. I hope you never stop creating content, John. Thank you.
Titan is the most intriguing moon in our solar system! Saturn's moon Titan is so Earth like, yet so alien at the same time. Like Earth, Titan's atmosphere primarily consists of nitrogen, and also like Earth, Titan has lakes and rivers, albeit of ammonia and methane rather than water. This particular moon is also a hybrid body, like Ganymede, it's a moon made of both ice and rock on the ground. Living things native to Titan would probably be argon based organisms reliant on methane.
The Sirens of Titan I was drawn by the sirens of Titan Carried along by their call Seeking for a way to enlighten Searching for the sense of it all Like a kiss on the wind I was thrown to the stars Captured and ordered in the army of Mars Marching to the sound of the drum in my head I followed the call Only to be Malachi Constant I thought I came to this Earth Living in the heart of the moment With the riches I gained at my birth But here in the yellow and blue of my days Wander the endless Mercurian caves Watching for the signs the harmoniums make The words on the wall I was drawn by the sirens of Titan And so I came in the end Under the shadow of Saturn With statues and birds for my friends Finding a home at the end of my days Looking around, I've only to say I was the victim of a series of accidents As are we all. Al Stewart from the album Modern Times, 1975 based on the novel The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
This kind of thing makes life Even better,I just wish I was younger so I could be around when technology get to were humans actually go to Titan....I love astronomy
Awesome and thought provoking video as always, John! Man, I really hope we can answer these questions in our lifetimes. I really hope we’re the first generation in history to find life or evidence of past life off this planet. I have very high hopes and I’m super excited for the Titan mission. Humanity is gearing up for our first trip to Mars too. It’s a great time to be alive. Thanks, JMG!
Wow, look at this actual _optimism_ from my past self lol. That's not a feeling I've ever really been familiar with honestly, so _aight, old Zach, I see you lol._ I'll try to take a lesson to apply to the me at _this_ position on the ever-progressing currents of time. Maybe my future self will check back in to see how we were doing at different points in these crazy, uncertain times hahaha.
Perhaps those sand dunes could have an organic component. Imagine a hydrocarbon based spherical lifeform, like living pearls or miniature tarballs of life, exuding water-ice. You wold get piles of tiny 'bearings' mildly repelling each other. It would take very little breeze to create dunes in such material. There are various kid toys of granular 'sand' that if wobbled flows and ripples into various patterns.
I really have a hard time believing that life might evolve that far out, and also find it unlikely to be anything other than carbon-based with water as the primary solvent. The problem isn't just chemistry in general, where water seems to be incredibly unique (it has some analogues, but the chemistry for an imagined biology gets weird), but also energy density and the availability of heavier and heavier elements needed for exotic biology. A place like Titan, for instance, is not only much colder, but it also lacks any appreciable sunlight of any wavelength hitting its surface. So the only energy available for any sort of biology is thermal from what little it can get between what makes it through from the Sun, radioactive decay within the moon, and tidal forces from Saturn, and it's not much. The evolution of life has always seemed to revolve around energy, and even on Earth where there is comparably tons of it provided by the Sun, life still came up with all kinds of incredible ways to conserve it. It seems to me that for exotic forms of life to exist (and by exotic, I mean based on different chemistry), it would require much more complexity to "make do" with what is available. I think I'd have an easier time believing that exotic biology could evolve in much hotter places than Earth, due to the increased energy available, than out in the colder reaches of a star system. If I had to guess, the reality will likely be that life can only evolve using Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Carbon, Oxygen, Phosphorus, and Sulfur, all but one of which are the top 10 most abundant elements in the universe. That liquid water must be present in sufficient quantities for sufficient periods of time and that it must have cycles. That a planet must be large enough to maintain a certain amount of atmosphere that also allows sufficient spectra of the light of its host star to reach the surface, and small enough that its gravity is not a hindrance to the formation of life, and also have a relatively strong magnetic field. And that the energy density provided by its host star is not only enough to heat its surface to maintain liquid water, but also to provide enough light energy for life itself to take hold by chemical means such as photosynthesis and other chemical reactions on the planet's surface and in its atmosphere.
JMG is becoming my favorite narrator. What a great voice! How does he find all that information? If I stay awake I learn. If I go to sleep, thank goodness he isn’t playing loud music at the end to wake me up, and I’ll just listen to this same show again tomorrow night.
It's not actually that hard, at least for me. I only do videos on subjects that I'm passionately interested in. Research is not work for me, it's fun, so I'm just bringing what I've learned to the content. Then I just assume there are others out there interested too, and deliver it in such a way that is helpful whether it's for people looking to learn, fall asleep or ASMR etc.. What I didn't do is the voice, thanks to my late Dad for his deep voice genetics lol. Enjoy and be well.
Earth oceans change appearance drastically during algae blooms and when larger organisms congregate for mating purposes. Early explorers described the whole ocean changing color as far as the eye could see when such things happened. Perhaps that is the cause of the changing patches on Titan's lakes?
Hmm, sounds like Titan would make for an interesting scifi novel where life from the surface and life from the subsurface ocean somehow meet. A world on which two completely different types of biochemistry exist would be fascinating.
First - amazingly! Thank you very much for this episode. I have always enjoyed speculation about life on Titan, and wouldn't be amazed if some creature does live there.
Back to Titan in 2034. I cannot wait. Cassini-Huygens was the definitive answer to the criticism of "Why waste money on a space program". I recall downloading thousands of raw images sent from Cassini and Huygens. What a magnificent mission. What astonishing data. In future decades our space probes will become more advanced, more flexible and more autonomous. I would hope more numerous too. I am anxiously awaiting the exploration of the oceans of Europa and Enceladus. Humanity's first interplanetary submarine mission. Wow. Surely we have both the ability and the imagination to 'ramp up' our exploration of our very near cosmic neighbors? Our universe will always be stranger and more spectacular place than we could ever possibly imagine. You just can't make this stuff up.
Somewhere, a Titanian astronomer is horrified that the earth has seas of liquid water and that the planet is so hot that it actually rains water from the skies, much like we view those exoplanets with boiling iron rain.
Just as a side note, when he’s talking about reproducing the chemistry of titans atmosphere and adding energy, he’s referring to Miller-Urey type experiments, look them up, they’re interesting.
I really like the slight change in narration style in this one. It sounds to me like the dramatic emphasis on random words has been reduced in "volume" a bit and overall it comes off more relaxed and natural to me.
Could it be possible for a form of life to develop based upon the energy and chemistry that exist on Titan? I mean, sure it’s cold to us, but who’s to say life forms couldn’t exist, drinking nice cool glasses of iced ethane tea as they hang out in the warm yellow sky-glow on the shore of their methane lake? (Or I guess it could be some sort of simple, microscopic stuff if you want to be boring) Of course there’s a point when you’re getting so cold that chemical reactions and such become harder and harder etc, but is Titan in that range? Is there anything absolutely preventing some utterly distinct life system from forming there? Edit : oh, he mentioned this at the very end. I’d be interested in more detail if anyone has it
its not just the cold, its the problem of liquid methane and ethane, and how it works compared to water, as a necessary medium to stir the chemicals in a "chemical soup" to kickstart life.. because of the less viscous nature of liquid methane compared to water, which works really well, is yet to be determined..
I remember reading somewhere (couldn't find the article again) that either the disappearing acetylene and hydrogen was due to life or some catalyst that works at cryogenic temperatures, and that such a catalyst is not known to exist. Of course that may not be true and there may be other mechanisms that could explain it, but who knows.
the Huygens probe had no sterilisation procedure not even UV or radiation cleaning, it was a bizzare oversight on the project to this day im not sure why they didnt bother
I'm curious to see how exactly a drone on Titan would work! Surely they'd have to fine some sort of way for the drone to fly itself autonomously, as the signals from Earth would take hours to get there! Much like how a signal to Mars from Earth takes about 40 minutes at Mars' closest point, and over an hour, from Mars' farthest point. Either way, I'm excited to see we're hopefully gonna be going back to one of the most spectacular and mysterious moons of our gorgeous Solar System! Brilliant video as always!
You would have to anticipate day lengths and also use maps to anticipate terrain. I don't think there are any high mountains or high winds, but obviously there are liquid features that would have to be avoided.
idea: what if there are two different life forms on Titan, one on the surface, one in the subsurface ocean. They would not know of each other's existence
Well as to the very low erosion rate, it would make sense that a liquid with lower viscosity and density wouldn't be able to erode solids the way water does. Especially if the liquid can coagulate with the solids.
10:47 this looks like a dried up lake bed, smooth rounded stones and long expanse of sand and dust… this picture could have easily been taken of an earth desert. I LOVE when we find similarities to our own planet on alien worlds. There’s a certain beauty in nature’s repetitive well, nature…😉
I’m a mailman, walk 6/8 hours a day with my earbuds in. I think I’ve listened to every one of your videos. Helps to make the day go faster & I learn so much about space. Thank you
@TK Billington It's ridiculous we still have limited data, and expensive data at that.
Love and respect to u sir
I often listen to his channel here on long drives playing it via TH-cam, but just listening it as I drive. It is certainly a channel where the videos can be converted to a podcast.
Steve 71 hey I’ve been waiting for a letter for weeks now have you seen it?
You walk 6/8 hours per day ... 45 minutes of walking per day is not all that much
But the biggest question of all was left out: Are Titan's sand dunes home to giant worms that produce spice?
And how can this be? For he is the Qwisatz Haderach!
Poe Dameron is a spice runner.
Yes
Spice Spice Baby
"By will alone i set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of safu that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning... it is by will alone i set my mind in motion"
The fact that Titan is "bathed in a thick, orange fog" is the reason that the extra-terrestrials that evolved there invented the foghorn before they invented the wheel.
One thing I've not heard anyone address re: potential life on Titan - fossils. Water freezes so solid on Titan, its strength is comparable to granite. That means that if there is life on Titan, any fossils that may exist there could possibly be contained in ice instead of rock. I think that would be a cool thing to see (pun fully intended).
For all we know there could be small fish that live in the lakes of Titan.
As a paleontologist, I would fucling love that
@@charlieretro you mean the subsurface water/ammonium ocean?
If we get a drone on Titan and have a clear enough time to get a picture of Saturn floating above it, massive and just hanging there, then sci-fi artwork, video games and movies are no longer gonna suffer from having that kinda thing in the background. It'll finally be grounded in reality for our brains, we will finally see it and accept it. It'll be up there as one of the greatest photos ever taken in space. I can only think of maybe 5 that will be comparable.
we will never see space, the world must overcome the 3rd world take over....after the next dark ages.. maybe we will get up there.. but i doubt it!
Wouldn't titans atmosphere be so dense that you cant see Saturn from the surfice
It's been done
The picture of alpha centuria is gonna be one of the most best picture
That would be really cool, but I wonder if the atmosphere if titan will be too thick to see saturn.
It’s because of you that I have such a strong passion for space exploration and just learning about the universe in general
Alfie live his channels
If you are really interested, you could try out channels like: Scott Manley, Anton Petrov, Astrum, Fraser Cain, Vintage Space, and Curious Droid.
Space is fake so goodluck, dummy.
I totally agree!
liberty research anton petrov gets too much wrong but I’ll check out the others
I'll be rewatching this for bed time. Love your stuff JMG
".. the amazing Universe in which we *activate deep voice* liiiiiiiiiive."
why does he do this? Is this some sort of inside joke im unaware of?
Bird Person why not?
This post makes zero sense
@@ryugo7713 👈🏻 I'm siding with this person. Someone that finally thinks like me. 👍🏻
The long, low timbre makes me sploosh
I absolutely love this channel. Interesting content, made by someone with genuine, obvious passion for the subject. I hope you never stop creating content, John. Thank you.
Titan is a very interesting moon..
Indeed
Indeed
*Michael uploads new video*
Me: *Stops whatever I’m doing to watch the video*
“Nothing else matters.”
It is truly amazing to me how something could look so much like Earth yet be so drastically different.
Titan is the most intriguing moon in our solar system! Saturn's moon Titan is so Earth like, yet so alien at the same time. Like Earth, Titan's atmosphere primarily consists of nitrogen, and also like Earth, Titan has lakes and rivers, albeit of ammonia and methane rather than water. This particular moon is also a hybrid body, like Ganymede, it's a moon made of both ice and rock on the ground. Living things native to Titan would probably be argon based organisms reliant on methane.
I love this channel much better then some science programs you find on TV !
TH-cam in general is better than TV
I gotta wait till in 55 until I can see titan drone pics. Better drop some fat and eat some veggies
Go vegan buddy
I'm already 52 I may not make it.
😩
NonDelusional74611 Cannibals love vegans
Jason Schmidt well , if those cannibals are women, they can eat my sausage cause I’m going vegan too.
@@albclean you never know friend ^^
I'm so excited about the Titan drone. That mission is going to be amazing if it's successful.
Everyone knows that the Changelings from Star Trek: DS9 live within the liquid ethane/methane lakes. The founders are pissed about Huygens ;-)
Adam Procter oh yeah. That would be cool.
Where do the Jem Hadar reside?
That wasn't a lake on the Founders homeworld it was all the founders joined into one being.
@@not6709 The other side of the Bajoran wormhole, in Dominion Space.
This is my 82nd video I'm watching from this channel the best channel ever 😊 just ran 30km easy run listening to these videos in my headset
You make the best space related videos on youtube
I like how you always use positive language in your videos and make such thought-provoking content. Great video as always ♥
this is amazing, i can’t wait for more !
I'm 35 and I will see so many wonders by the time I leave this world but, I wish I could live long enough to be able to step foot on another world.
Why?
Obi-wan: "That's no moon, it's a space station!" Han: "No, it's too big to be a space station" Luke: "I've got a bad feeling about this!"
I have serious concerns regarding the apparent complete collapse and decay of my sleep cycle when JMG hasn't uploaded for a while!
Yeah same here, that's when I dig through the videos on his other channel.
I can't wait for the drone mission!
Great vid, cheers.
The Sirens of Titan
I was drawn by the sirens of Titan
Carried along by their call
Seeking for a way to enlighten
Searching for the sense of it all
Like a kiss on the wind
I was thrown to the stars
Captured and ordered in the army of Mars
Marching to the sound of the drum in my head
I followed the call
Only to be Malachi Constant
I thought I came to this Earth
Living in the heart of the moment
With the riches I gained at my birth
But here in the yellow and blue of my days
Wander the endless Mercurian caves
Watching for the signs the harmoniums make
The words on the wall
I was drawn by the sirens of Titan
And so I came in the end
Under the shadow of Saturn
With statues and birds for my friends
Finding a home at the end of my days
Looking around, I've only to say
I was the victim of a series of accidents
As are we all.
Al Stewart
from the album Modern Times, 1975
based on the novel The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
You talk me to sleep almost every night. Thanks for tucking me in. My dad never read to me come to think of it neither did my mom.
This kind of thing makes life Even better,I just wish I was younger so I could be around when technology get to were humans actually go to Titan....I love astronomy
Awesome and thought provoking video as always, John! Man, I really hope we can answer these questions in our lifetimes. I really hope we’re the first generation in history to find life or evidence of past life off this planet. I have very high hopes and I’m super excited for the Titan mission. Humanity is gearing up for our first trip to Mars too. It’s a great time to be alive.
Thanks, JMG!
Wow, look at this actual _optimism_ from my past self lol. That's not a feeling I've ever really been familiar with honestly, so _aight, old Zach, I see you lol._
I'll try to take a lesson to apply to the me at _this_ position on the ever-progressing currents of time. Maybe my future self will check back in to see how we were doing at different points in these crazy, uncertain times hahaha.
It’s content such as this that remind’s me what a wonderful universe we exist in. Thank you 🙏
Need more channels like this
Perhaps those sand dunes could have an organic component. Imagine a hydrocarbon based spherical lifeform, like living pearls or miniature tarballs of life, exuding water-ice. You wold get piles of tiny 'bearings' mildly repelling each other. It would take very little breeze to create dunes in such material. There are various kid toys of granular 'sand' that if wobbled flows and ripples into various patterns.
I really have a hard time believing that life might evolve that far out, and also find it unlikely to be anything other than carbon-based with water as the primary solvent. The problem isn't just chemistry in general, where water seems to be incredibly unique (it has some analogues, but the chemistry for an imagined biology gets weird), but also energy density and the availability of heavier and heavier elements needed for exotic biology.
A place like Titan, for instance, is not only much colder, but it also lacks any appreciable sunlight of any wavelength hitting its surface. So the only energy available for any sort of biology is thermal from what little it can get between what makes it through from the Sun, radioactive decay within the moon, and tidal forces from Saturn, and it's not much. The evolution of life has always seemed to revolve around energy, and even on Earth where there is comparably tons of it provided by the Sun, life still came up with all kinds of incredible ways to conserve it.
It seems to me that for exotic forms of life to exist (and by exotic, I mean based on different chemistry), it would require much more complexity to "make do" with what is available. I think I'd have an easier time believing that exotic biology could evolve in much hotter places than Earth, due to the increased energy available, than out in the colder reaches of a star system.
If I had to guess, the reality will likely be that life can only evolve using Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Carbon, Oxygen, Phosphorus, and Sulfur, all but one of which are the top 10 most abundant elements in the universe. That liquid water must be present in sufficient quantities for sufficient periods of time and that it must have cycles. That a planet must be large enough to maintain a certain amount of atmosphere that also allows sufficient spectra of the light of its host star to reach the surface, and small enough that its gravity is not a hindrance to the formation of life, and also have a relatively strong magnetic field. And that the energy density provided by its host star is not only enough to heat its surface to maintain liquid water, but also to provide enough light energy for life itself to take hold by chemical means such as photosynthesis and other chemical reactions on the planet's surface and in its atmosphere.
Your voice is just so amazing, It’s pleasure to hear it. Thank you John!
JMG is becoming my favorite narrator. What a great voice! How does he find all that information? If I stay awake I learn. If I go to sleep, thank goodness he isn’t playing loud music at the end to wake me up, and I’ll just listen to this same show again tomorrow night.
It's not actually that hard, at least for me. I only do videos on subjects that I'm passionately interested in. Research is not work for me, it's fun, so I'm just bringing what I've learned to the content. Then I just assume there are others out there interested too, and deliver it in such a way that is helpful whether it's for people looking to learn, fall asleep or ASMR etc.. What I didn't do is the voice, thanks to my late Dad for his deep voice genetics lol. Enjoy and be well.
Event horizon does, thankfully they excluded it from JMG!
Excited for Dragonfly.
thank you so much for your videos
Truly, this is an amazing universe, in which we LIIIVE. Thank you! Great to listen to you again.
Standing on Titan would be very strange. Out of all the moons it would truly be the most bizarre in my opinion. Thanks for the video John.
An skilled orator. Video's are super interesting, well researched on on message.
John your videos are addictive to watch, thanks for your content
Fantastic compilation and video, JMG! Thanks a lot! 😊
Earth oceans change appearance drastically during algae blooms and when larger organisms congregate for mating purposes. Early explorers described the whole ocean changing color as far as the eye could see when such things happened.
Perhaps that is the cause of the changing patches on Titan's lakes?
Your rising and falling tones in narration makes you the perfect stoner at 0.5x speed
Love your work John.
Thanks that you pay actually a lot of attention to the subs on your vids. It helps non-natives big time!
Hmm, sounds like Titan would make for an interesting scifi novel where life from the surface and life from the subsurface ocean somehow meet. A world on which two completely different types of biochemistry exist would be fascinating.
Another video by John Michael Godier? I'm not complaining!
The helicopter / drone explorer appears to be fitted with an RTG. This is great! I can't wait to see the results of this two year mission.
Your way of talking is relaxing
I can't wait for the Dragonfly mission, honestly one of the coolest projects NASA is working on right now.
I'm more interested in the project to send a submarine there.
First - amazingly! Thank you very much for this episode. I have always enjoyed speculation about life on Titan, and wouldn't be amazed if some creature does live there.
Back to Titan in 2034. I cannot wait. Cassini-Huygens was the definitive answer to the criticism of "Why waste money on a space program". I recall downloading thousands of raw images sent from Cassini and Huygens. What a magnificent mission. What astonishing data.
In future decades our space probes will become more advanced, more flexible and more autonomous. I would hope more numerous too. I am anxiously awaiting the exploration of the oceans of Europa and Enceladus. Humanity's first interplanetary submarine mission. Wow.
Surely we have both the ability and the imagination to 'ramp up' our exploration of our very near cosmic neighbors? Our universe will always be stranger and more spectacular place than we could ever possibly imagine. You just can't make this stuff up.
Somewhere, a Titanian astronomer is horrified that the earth has seas of liquid water and that the planet is so hot that it actually rains water from the skies, much like we view those exoplanets with boiling iron rain.
Just as a side note, when he’s talking about reproducing the chemistry of titans atmosphere and adding energy, he’s referring to Miller-Urey type experiments, look them up, they’re interesting.
Love you big john keep up the cool shit dawg
Vonnegut knew there were large lakes on Titan back in 1959, also life underground on Mercury.
It is most wonderful to discover you, your channel, and your science fiction. I am subscribed!
I really like the slight change in narration style in this one. It sounds to me like the dramatic emphasis on random words has been reduced in "volume" a bit and overall it comes off more relaxed and natural to me.
No, it was just how I said it at the time.
@@JohnMichaelGodier Well, anyway, I liked it :)
Well done JMG . Happy thanks giving!
Could it be possible for a form of life to develop based upon the energy and chemistry that exist on Titan?
I mean, sure it’s cold to us, but who’s to say life forms couldn’t exist, drinking nice cool glasses of iced ethane tea as they hang out in the warm yellow sky-glow on the shore of their methane lake? (Or I guess it could be some sort of simple, microscopic stuff if you want to be boring)
Of course there’s a point when you’re getting so cold that chemical reactions and such become harder and harder etc, but is Titan in that range?
Is there anything absolutely preventing some utterly distinct life system from forming there?
Edit : oh, he mentioned this at the very end.
I’d be interested in more detail if anyone has it
its not just the cold, its the problem of liquid methane and ethane, and how it works compared to water, as a necessary medium to stir the chemicals in a "chemical soup" to kickstart life.. because of the less viscous nature of liquid methane compared to water, which works really well, is yet to be determined..
I've always felt as if the concept of "carbon- based life" being the only life possible in the universe to be a very narrow minded view.
Not life as we know it. It is minus 290 deg F on the surface. Possibly in the subsurface ocean if there isn't too much ammonia.
I remember reading somewhere (couldn't find the article again) that either the disappearing acetylene and hydrogen was due to life or some catalyst that works at cryogenic temperatures, and that such a catalyst is not known to exist. Of course that may not be true and there may be other mechanisms that could explain it, but who knows.
Yeah it's possible, he actually mentioned it in the Vid.
my man John, at it again with the top 10
11. The Sirens of Titan. You're welcome.
Scrolled through the comments to find this. Excellent book.
Great video... so what material would I need to Kayak on Titan???
Perfect timing
I love space content. It's a shame I don't get this in public school so thank you for doing this!
Love your videos, brother
You see John, Titan is home to the Methane Men and the shiny bits that are seen on the surface of the liquid are their ships sailing the methane seas.
Another Amazing video :)
Love your content dude
Just amazing video, i always get blown away by youre videos.
Thank you for doing this! :)
Great video
Man, I just love your videos...
I love you channel. Pls never stop!
As always beautiful Video. Keep it up John!
This is wonderful! Thanks John!
Tholins! It's always tholins!
It's tholins.
*Super Underated Channel* 👿
the Huygens probe had no sterilisation procedure not even UV or radiation cleaning, it was a bizzare oversight on the project to this day im not sure why they didnt bother
“What a desolate place this is.”
- C-3PO STAR WARS (1977)
spaaaaaaaace
A really weird place.
A quick thanks to JMG for making me sound like the smartest guy in the room when the topic of space comes up among me and friends
Fascinating stuff about Titan!
Titan is the home of the eternals in the marvel universe. So according to Stan lee people live there 😉✌️🧐🥳🤯🤫
So good. Love everything you do.
“The Sand Dunes of Titan” sounds like the name of a novella from the Golden Age of science fiction. 😊
Last time I was this early, all 10 unsolved mysteries of Titan were ... still unsolved ☹️
Damn I don't think I've ever gotten here as early as 15 minutes
So?
I'm curious to see how exactly a drone on Titan would work! Surely they'd have to fine some sort of way for the drone to fly itself autonomously, as the signals from Earth would take hours to get there! Much like how a signal to Mars from Earth takes about 40 minutes at Mars' closest point, and over an hour, from Mars' farthest point.
Either way, I'm excited to see we're hopefully gonna be going back to one of the most spectacular and mysterious moons of our gorgeous Solar System! Brilliant video as always!
You would have to anticipate day lengths and also use maps to anticipate terrain. I don't think there are any high mountains or high winds, but obviously there are liquid features that would have to be avoided.
What an awesome moon. Enough mysteries to unfold.
Titan is fascinating! Great vid :)
damn i remember watching you when you had like 10k subscribers nice dude!
Good video
idea: what if there are two different life forms on Titan, one on the surface, one in the subsurface ocean. They would not know of each other's existence
Well as to the very low erosion rate, it would make sense that a liquid with lower viscosity and density wouldn't be able to erode solids the way water does. Especially if the liquid can coagulate with the solids.
10:47 this looks like a dried up lake bed, smooth rounded stones and long expanse of sand and dust… this picture could have easily been taken of an earth desert. I LOVE when we find similarities to our own planet on alien worlds. There’s a certain beauty in nature’s repetitive well, nature…😉
So, what about the Sirens of Titan?
I'm not sure if this is my favorite youtube channel or if event horizon is.
JMG what's ur favorite book?? I love to read and your book is sitting right here 😉
Thank u for being awesome
I 🫀 you, John!