The near future will answer our biggest question. Are we alone? By confirming the existence of life on Titan, or even fossilized remains on Venus or Mars, we will prove by the Drake Equation, that there are hundreds of millions of life bearing worlds in the Galaxy.
Well, Ganymede is bigger than Mercury and Titan's atmosphere makes its diameter a tiny bit wider than Mercury. But Mercury is far more massive than both moons combined.
Definitions of moon, planet, and planet types should be based entirely on their size and compositions rather than their positions and rotation patterns.
Agreed. Planets and moons do have some overlap. Titan is both a planet and a moon. Deimos is both an asteroid and a moon. Moons are not really objects, they’re descriptions of location. Planets and asteroids are objects.
@@nasis18 You are right about that. We will never know. NASA is a pathetic farce that won't do any real space exploration. The Marlboro cigarette company has a bigger budget than NASA.
I've been a member for over 3 years now and the content is still just as good as when i first started watching the channel. Keep up the amazing work Rob
The concept of two completely seperate and distinct biospheres on Titan is amazing. Although unlikely. If there is life though, it would be very small, very simple and live extremely slowly. Each "bacteria" would probably live thousands of years due to the exceedingly slow metabolisms.
People talk about terraforming Mars and getting the nitrogen from Titan but here I’m thinking you got a whole ice sheet over Titan along with a underground ocean scientist aren’t thinking straight or something terraform titan if anything terraforming mars take thousands of years but terraforming Titan seems to be the better option in my opinion
Excellent video, very informative and enjoyable. These videos are so well done with great graphics and a narrator who is pleasant- NOT an annoying system generated voice. Btw, I noticed when using meters and centigrade temps, they showed the equivalent in feet and Fahrenheit temp for us clueless Americans; thank you.
Seeing a Zambian flag 🇿🇲 here just reminds me of Edward Mukuka Nkoloso, who wanted Zambia to be the first country to land on the moon space 😊, I hope his spectacular journey motivates many young Zambian
I’ve always been fascinated now how the moons are so drastically different that orbit the same planet, I thought they’d have a similar composition as the planets they orbit if originally they were a part of the formation of the planet that broke off or didn’t quite bind
@@gunsmokeandghouls Because I just naively thought if every moon that orbits a planet should have similar qualities and geology to its actual planet like they are a “chunk” off the planet that was forming while spinning billions of years ago, if that makes any sense 😉
@@bryanp5843 I’m very open minded, please proceed with some theory you have, I’d be very interested to hear 🤔 Unless of course Pewdiepie your hero has something better to say 🤦🏾
@@gunsmokeandghouls the planets have a certain size and characteristics. Do you think mine related to it would ask have similar sizes and characteristics
Titan is also the only other place in the solar system that has an atmospheric pressure close to that of Earth....so to walk on Titan all you need is protection from the cold and some air to breathe....MUCH easier than walking on the Moon or Mars.
The temperature on Titan is -180C. A brutal and lethally frigid temperature even with protection. You would freeze solid as hard as concrete in seconds. There is no way that will ever become a reality.
The moon Titan is actually so underrated. Either people know it as the green moon or a moon bigger than mercury, like Ganymede, but still inferior to Ganymede. And most times Enceladus is more popular than Titan because of its Geysers and habitability as well. Meanwhile Not many people actually realize Titan’s habitability and further importance and etc
@@marcusAmaximus Yes that's right Titan is so underrated as a possible Moon with life on it's surface or beneath its surface or perhaps areas of Titan?
@@goldfing5898 i say green because in one of the most popular images of the moon, it looks green. And instead of a yellowish i think its more of an orangey-yellow color. And yellow moon belongs to Io
I've been a member for over 3 years now and the content is still just as good as when i first started watching the channel. Keep up the amazing work RobTitan has always been my favorite celestial object. Always found it fascinating
if there's life on titan, they might see our spaceship landing on their planet and taking photos and they can assume it's ufo made by aliens. we are the aliens!
What makes V101 Space stand out above the rest? the way Rob presents the information and his explanation of the information alongside with the pictures and images he puts into the videos. So it may seem like it looks like a long time before he uploads another video you know when he does upload its gonna be good top notch materal. Good Job Rob! Keep up the good work! Id like to get some more updates on the JWST soon....
Thank you, I really appreciate the great comment. Although I try to make as many videos as possible, I run this channel on my own. No team like most other big space channels. So I'm not as frequent as I would like to be. But as long as people like yourself enjoy them, that's all that matters to me. Thanks for watching! V
This is a very interesting video, Dragonfly sounds great, I'll be in my mid-70s then, and with the hope of being able to discover new life on Titan, Thank you Rob for your impeccable narration and excellent presentation! V Rocks. 👊 😎
I've always been a stargazer and looked up wondering what other civilizations might be like, and realized those aliens likewise looking up in wonder would be astonished to discover Earth and all its life. The universe is mostly inanimate matter in which life is so rare that we would be excited just to find microbes. Every other planet we know about is barren, and that shines light on just how rare and beautiful Earth and its endless diversity of life truly is.
Yes and no. Consider the billions of stars with planets in our galaxy and then consider the billions of galaxies. Then take a look at our little solar system. There’s us of course teeming with life ; there’s Mars which once had oceans on its surface , there’s Titan with possible basic life, there’s Europa with a hot core and water oceans under its ice coating. That’s just in one tiny solar system. We know water means life so just imagine what’s out there.
Thank you for the videos, Rob. They are fascinating and informative. I look forward to each new video, and still watch many of your past offerings as they continue to blow me away. All the best.
As I get older, I find myself growing less hopeful that humanity will ever find any life beyond the unicellular level. I worked as a NASA contractor at JSC for 25 years and saw and heard about enough problems that were not anticipated, that could have derailed many activities. Too many mission planners heads are up their exhaust ports when it comes to bringing back potentially living organisms from Mars or anywhere else. There was a movie called Life (2017) that explored this scenario with very bad results. The ISS would be the LAST 😅place I would send any samples. What should be done is to build a base on the moon where this sort of work can be done safely. If (or when) something goes wrong the base could be isolated and if necessary destroyed. Even if it takes an extra decade or two before we send human missions to Mars to collect samples, better a delay than an ecological catastrophe due to the arrogance of science committees and funding agencies that refused to remember the maxim of Murphy's Law: anything that can go wrong will go wrong. We might get lucky, we might not.
Idk brother, I don’t think we should mess with the moon, that’s something that’s pivotal to our existence, now mars that’s not our moon or sun it doesn’t do anything for us, but if we destroy the moon we don’t only destroy our species but we also lose Mother Earth and probably the whole human existence period, maybe that’s why they never went back, maybe it was just a bucket list project to be the first country to go there… If you worked for NASA then you probably know way more then me just my opinion on it… We don’t know what keeps the moon going, we can go there and ruin it maybe the moon isn’t supposed to be tampered with just like the sun isn’t, we know that nuclear war has potential of ruin our ecosystem and even worst, but we don’t know what can destroy the moon, it can be as simple as humans being there too long, we literally destroy everything through greed… Trust me bro I’m no NASA guy I wish I was lol but having humans on the moon for too long would turn into some idiot thinking about potentially conquering the moon or even mining on the moon to bring back organic precious materials/metals on earth for financial gains
@@djzone3654 A science base wouldn't hurt anything. The very least you need a energy source and some crops. It would help us figure out more about the moon. You cant figure out whats going on there if you don't actually do stuff there. However humans haven't been to the moon since the 70s. That was close to 50 years ago. Not to mention its not like we're going to have a whole colony there. Realistically, there's more potential to just have a base and some satellites and have it be a pit stop than to do anything else. The moon cant support a colony. Though it'd be a good stepping stone to doing so. Be super dope if we had more than one moon but we don't.
Youre worried we wont find life beyond the multicellular level? Go look in a mirror. Life exists, complex, multicellular. Our world is the proof that the universal laws allow for this to happen. There is one thing about the universe for certain; NOTHING happens once. Nothing,
Life is highly unlikely. Its accurate, but finding a cellular organism similar to calvin there aint no fucking place in the universe safe. I understand the biology behind how Life portrayed the alien. And again if it were to be encountered - it was always a question of when and not if. But another thing is that it'd be highly unlikely. I doubt any one person and group responsible for them would make such a dumb move in contamination
@@karfomachet7265 - Yea. I think that was the one they actually sent a probe through the ice erupting from its southern hemisphere. They suspect there to be an ocean under its surface as well.
I see video from V101, I click Like! I am a simple person! I love the haunting mysterious melody in the background as well, and the idea of life on Titan is extremely intriguing!
one of the main outstanding things about the Higens probe photos is the light it shows on the surface .appears very well lit like a day on Earth almost
@@jondoc7525 Titan's orbit is far enough from Saturn to be safe from the planet's radiation but close enough to be protected from solar and cosmic radiation by Saturn's magnetic field. So it's better than Mars in that respect.
Those are images in different lights. Titan is a dark world, with a very small window of dusk LIGHT. Titan is Frozen world. Any life would be carbon/nitrogen based on the surface. Titan would be amazing in the far far far future as the outer solar system warms up.
@Rais yep, but life would need to be able to incorporate nitrogen as major building block in terms of FROZEN THAT TITAN IS. We humans use oxygen. The tiny organisms would definitely must use nitrogen for biology. It's just my opinion. We look for what makes us familiar or what already works. Where as enceladus, Saturn's other moon would be water based, as there warmer waters from the inside. Water is perfect solvent for biology for our overall understanding.
How would the life just pop into existence? Scientifically life does not just materialize out of materials. Let alone become more and more complex from just natural processes. Evolution is extremely unscientific and pretty much a discarded notion at this time.
@@MrLaughingcorpse Let me get this straight, your logic is: - Life cannot originate from minerals - Therefore Evolution is unscientific What does the origin of life have to do with Evolution? Evolution describes the process of how life could diversify and adapt via natural selection, this presupposes that the life already exists. Another thing that has nothing to do with Evolution, but why do you think it's impossible for life to form from non-living components or materials? Seeing as we use them to survive as well as our body's fundamentally made of things that if isolated wouldn't be alive. I don't find it unlikely that the most simplest self replicating forms of "life" could have existed in the early oceans of Earth near underwater hydrothermal vents. Although, life on Titan? Idk, seems like a bit of a stretch as no such kind of carbon based life form could live on there, and we don't know any other kind of lifeform that isn't carbon based yet.
@@Poliostasis Natural selection only uses existing genetic material. Evolution beyond that to new novel features has an absurd lack of scientific evidence. It is mainly a discarded theory at this point. The reason I say it is impossible is because scientifically it is. The smallest cell is extremely complex and DNA contains books of information. Your body is kept alive by many complex bio-machineries not to mention your consciousness. How did nature create consciousness?
Well done. I loved your narration and tone down on typical TH-cam baiting. Quality 10 minute or longer videos that welcome, rather than short video's is what I desire more of. Thanks again for a great useful video.👍👍
I was so excited when the Dragonfly mission to Titan was first announced, However that excitement was diminished greatly when its landing location was announced. NASA is missing a huge opportunity to stir waning public interest in space exploration by choosing to send it to the (relatively) arid equatorial regions rather than using to opportunity to show the public and explore something we've never witnessed before, that being of course, the polar seas and lakes.
Wonderful video as always Rob! Such wonders and mysteries waiting for us to discover them out there, and I believe and really feel in my heart we're not the only ones looking out into the cosmos wondering if there's other life!
My take is that life can be so weird there is a possibility we won't recognize it, even when it's staring in our eyes. Just look at bacterial life on earth floating in the troposphere, or miles deep underground for example. Whatever may live there, it will be Titans.
a thousand years from now, we'll be visiting these planets as if we're going to walmart on the weekend. im so jealous of people born a thousand years from now😫
could people 1000 years from now smoke weed and drink a soda on a thursday afternoon while a perfect sunset dips under a green natural world? not with how we are deforesting, bitches living in the future gonna be way more depressed. just be happy you aint them.
Life present in a subsurface ocean on Titan would kind of be like the equivalent of finding lava swimmers that live in the mantle of the Earth...actually I think I may have heard of that concept before, I think they called it the "silicon biosphere" or something like that.
There isn’t anything that lives in the mantle. That’s a bit too hot. They have found ancient organism fossils in the rock that has been sucked down close to the mantle. I think you’re thinking a few organisms that survive close to oceanic heat vents. Any silicon based life would likely melt at those pressures and temperatures of the mantle. You’re thinking of what is called “the hypothetical silicon biosphere”. Supposedly you could use it as a building block, but no life like that exists that we know of. Everything here on earth evolved specifically from carbon building blocks
@@calus_bath_water i mean we've been looking around nearby planes of existence for a while and nobody else seems to have been there so it's a safe assumption to make. maybe there is other life out there, but we could be the progenitors. we have no idea how long it takes for a galaxy to populate and we might just be the first ones to get a lucky existence. maybe we're the primogenitors of all sentience, on our way to spread life among the stars. or maybe there's more sentience out there but not nearly as advanced as us. alien cavemen, wonder what that'd look like.
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Just curious but I noticed you spoke of two different cells that could do the same job. Do you think we could create a human based life form from these Titan friendly organelles like an Adam and Eve for this planet and send them there under deep cryogenic conditions to possibly populate this moon? Because we recently decoded our sex chromosomes which should give us a fairly good understanding about DNA and life. So what do you think? Could we possibly do this instead of trying to terraform this moon?
Came here to make a similar comment. I mean it’s eerie that the rest of the universe is happening without anything around (as far as we know) to witness it. But agree that an empty world that somewhat resembles ours is especially eerie
Had a space station orbiting Titan that could keep itself powered with natural gas you would have a never ending supply. Like the tv show deep space 9.
I've been so excited for the Dragonfly mission since they announced it. Not long now until it launches. This is one of our only hopes of realistically finding life in our lifetimes. Europa is another potential location but the evidence for it there is far less convincing. I really hope the mission turns up something
I have hopes for Europa because the information and data they’ve gathered so far is promising. What The planet lacks in gravity it makes up for in atmospheric pressure. But once we’ve perfected fission and fusion energy we can literally be there in like days compared to years. Just hoping for a livable planet outside of our own so we as humans can expand.
I’m sad that i will never experience space travel, deep sea/ocean exploration and space exploration in my lifetime. I just wish i can be alive to see the universe and everything it has 😢
As fantastic as it sounds the cell structure required to survive in Titan's seas would result in creatures/beings that are more or less ice creatures or as close to it as it gets complete with frigid 'blood' and an icy touch. Much like the other theorized form of life being powered & based around chemical energy (not by food conversion) would be probably be sentient slimes.
I have a feeling that there could be life in many places. There could be life on the sun. Who's to say it's impossible? A life form that can comfortably live in such a hot environment. Thin plasma may be impossibly thin for us in our dense cold bodies, but what if there is an entirely separate plane of element formations that we cannot detect?
@@George546-he5tz Seems you brainwashed people don't see the difference between a planet able to host some life form and a planet having all the required things needed to produce life. Seems more likely that there is only 1 planet with all the perfect conditions to produce life.....
I think that Thanos from the Marvel universe might be the answer to those suspicious scientists figuring out if there’s possible life on Titan! Even though in the Marvel universe, Titan is considered a planet by the characters but still orbits Saturn and is the home of Thanos 😆
Had a dream about cave rafting on Titan once. There were these huge teethless shark creatures that would feed under waterfalls and gulp rafters before spitting them out to safety. It was great fun!
@@firestuka8850 there's a game called barotrauma that puts you on europa as a submarine commander. lots of alien fish things trying to kill you, fun game.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. The music is by a brilliant composer called Simon Wilkinson and the track is called "New World Dawn". Here is his website - www.thebluemask.com/
I really hope we'll see a base established on Titan in my lifetime. Of course it will be incredibly challenging and only achievable with advanced propulsion technologies like Fusion but it feels like something that could be achieved by the end of this century.
Not hating on your age or nothing I just disagree and im assuming youre young (me too lol). I think we're still hundred of years out of sending people to other planets
@@charliewhammy I'm young enough to not need to get over 100 years old in order to witness the end of this century. And i think it might just be possible. Of course not likely but possible if more efforts were dedicated to space exploration. I like to think positive about the things happening in my lifetime rather than calling something impossible. I mean it took less than 70 years from the first plane flight to Apollo 11.(I am aware that this is a very stretched comparison but i think it gets the point)
Well, isn't Titan just a cosmic surprise party? Next thing you know, it'll be hosting intergalactic picnics and offering free WiFi to passing spacecraft. Titan, the neighborhood you never knew you wanted
I was living happy and a private life on Titan, My mission was not to be discovered,But now...!!.Please human let me live in peace. Habbadabba ( Swearing in Titanian Language)
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Dragonfly leaves in 2027 and arrives in 2034. It is just mind-numbing to think about this.
One would hope that the propulsion systems were improved by the late 2020’s… but not by much!
Mind penis
The near future will answer our biggest question. Are we alone? By confirming the existence of life on Titan, or even fossilized remains on Venus or Mars, we will prove by the Drake Equation, that there are hundreds of millions of life bearing worlds in the Galaxy.
Cool, I'll only be 55 by then ... If we make it that long lol 😂
@@phoenixbyrd79 you should still be alive when the biggest question gets answered. What an exciting time. Here's to your health and longevity.
It's crazy how there are moons bigger than some of the planets.
Well, Ganymede is bigger than Mercury and Titan's atmosphere makes its diameter a tiny bit wider than Mercury. But Mercury is far more massive than both moons combined.
Definitions of moon, planet, and planet types should be based entirely on their size and compositions rather than their positions and rotation patterns.
Agreed. Planets and moons do have some overlap. Titan is both a planet and a moon. Deimos is both an asteroid and a moon. Moons are not really objects, they’re descriptions of location. Planets and asteroids are objects.
Like having a head bigger than your body
@@RideAcrossTheRiver yeah mercury got the heavies 😂
As a Titanian I can confirm we exist.
How did you access Earth's Internet? How dare you?! Are you a hacker??
@@marioluigi9599 he’s been infiltrating us for 2 years based on what his account says
Do you truly exist though? Perhaps you are nothing more than an AI, programmed to act like a titanian, made to entertain everyone on youtube?
What do you Titanian's look like?
And how advanced Is your technology?
Thanks for all your interesting videos!
Your welcome! Thanks for your money :)
Titan has always been my favorite celestial object. Always found it fascinating.
Find it as fascinating as you want. You will never find life there.
@@Zurround you never know.
@@nasis18 You are right about that. We will never know. NASA is a pathetic farce that won't do any real space exploration. The Marlboro cigarette company has a bigger budget than NASA.
@@nasis18 nope
Uranus is mine
I've been a member for over 3 years now and the content is still just as good as when i first started watching the channel. Keep up the amazing work Rob
The concept of two completely seperate and distinct biospheres on Titan is amazing. Although unlikely. If there is life though, it would be very small, very simple and live extremely slowly. Each "bacteria" would probably live thousands of years due to the exceedingly slow metabolisms.
I agree. I mean the temperature there is like -170C, pretty damn cold. Plus there isn't much oxygen there.
@@Bagelrob399 anaerobic bacteria exist tho
People talk about terraforming Mars and getting the nitrogen from Titan but here I’m thinking you got a whole ice sheet over Titan along with a underground ocean scientist aren’t thinking straight or something terraform titan if anything terraforming mars take thousands of years but terraforming Titan seems to be the better option in my opinion
Thank you for showing the Fahrenheit conversion of Celsius. Very thoughtful.
Excellent video, very informative and enjoyable. These videos are so well done with great graphics and a narrator who is pleasant- NOT an annoying system generated voice.
Btw, I noticed when using meters and centigrade temps, they showed the equivalent in feet and Fahrenheit temp for us clueless Americans; thank you.
I love watching the videos on this channel. They’re always well presented, both verbally and graphically. Excellent work!
Was thinking the same thing. Very well done, very well put together.
Congratulations for the interesting video about Titan.
It is a wonderful channel!!
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Come down to SA🇿🇦 BRO
Seeing a Zambian flag 🇿🇲 here just reminds me of Edward Mukuka Nkoloso, who wanted Zambia to be the first country to land on the moon space 😊, I hope his spectacular journey motivates many young Zambian
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As a dude in Minnesota USA I'm so happy and excited to find like-minded people like all of y'all all over this globe!!
One of the best space channels on here ❤
I absolutely love your channel. Your content is top tier, haven’t missed a single episode yet.
I’ve always been fascinated now how the moons are so drastically different that orbit the same planet, I thought they’d have a similar composition as the planets they orbit if originally they were a part of the formation of the planet that broke off or didn’t quite bind
Why would you think that?
@@gunsmokeandghouls They're not very open minded
@@gunsmokeandghouls Because I just naively thought if every moon that orbits a planet should have similar qualities and geology to its actual planet like they are a “chunk” off the planet that was forming while spinning billions of years ago, if that makes any sense 😉
@@bryanp5843 I’m very open minded, please proceed with some theory you have, I’d be very interested to hear 🤔
Unless of course Pewdiepie your hero has something better to say 🤦🏾
@@gunsmokeandghouls the planets have a certain size and characteristics. Do you think mine related to it would ask have similar sizes and characteristics
……according to the US coast guard….there is no more life in the titan…
Titan is also the only other place in the solar system that has an atmospheric pressure close to that of Earth....so to walk on Titan all you need is protection from the cold and some air to breathe....MUCH easier than walking on the Moon or Mars.
True!
The temperature on Titan is -180C. A brutal and lethally frigid temperature even with protection. You would freeze solid as hard as concrete in seconds. There is no way that will ever become a reality.
@@demonhalo67just nuke it duh 🙄❤❤❤❤😂😂😂
@@tsrmmercy836WHAT?? that'll make it even colder! or hotter! Or uh..
And what about the radiation levels?
The moon Titan is actually so underrated. Either people know it as the green moon or a moon bigger than mercury, like Ganymede, but still inferior to Ganymede. And most times Enceladus is more popular than Titan because of its Geysers and habitability as well. Meanwhile Not many people actually realize Titan’s habitability and further importance and etc
Insightful and Correct. 💯
Don't forget Europa, the sixth largest moon in the solar system, revolving around Jupiter.
@@marcusAmaximus Yes that's right Titan is so underrated as a possible Moon with life on it's surface or beneath its surface or perhaps areas of Titan?
I know it as the yellow moon (not green), because it is usually depicted with a yellow atmosphere, also in the KSP (Kerbal Space Program).
@@goldfing5898 i say green because in one of the most popular images of the moon, it looks green. And instead of a yellowish i think its more of an orangey-yellow color. And yellow moon belongs to Io
Quality content without a doubt.
Congratulations Rob! 🇬🇹
I've been a member for over 3 years now and the content is still just as good as when i first started watching the channel. Keep up the amazing work RobTitan has always been my favorite celestial object. Always found it fascinating
New subscriber here.
I’m amazed I’ve only just found your channel, as I watch Anton Petrov, Astrum and many other space and science channels.
if there's life on titan, they might see our spaceship landing on their planet and taking photos and they can assume it's ufo made by aliens. we are the aliens!
What makes V101 Space stand out above the rest? the way Rob presents the information and his explanation of the information alongside with the pictures and images he puts into the videos. So it may seem like it looks like a long time before he uploads another video you know when he does upload its gonna be good top notch materal. Good Job Rob! Keep up the good work!
Id like to get some more updates on the JWST soon....
Thank you, I really appreciate the great comment. Although I try to make as many videos as possible, I run this channel on my own. No team like most other big space channels. So I'm not as frequent as I would like to be. But as long as people like yourself enjoy them, that's all that matters to me. Thanks for watching! V
@@V101SPACE put it to you this way. I watch your channel before I watch anybody else's. I just like the way you present your videos.
@@V101SPACE I love that.
@@V101SPACEhere here
The fact he's not A.I.
This is a very interesting video, Dragonfly sounds great, I'll be in my mid-70s then, and with the hope of being able to discover new life on Titan, Thank you Rob for your impeccable narration and excellent presentation! V Rocks. 👊 😎
Thanks Joseph! Glad you enjoyed it, and thank you for being an amazing supporter of my channel. V
@@V101SPACE You Sir, are very welcome. 👍
I've always been a stargazer and looked up wondering what other civilizations might be like, and realized those aliens likewise looking up in wonder would be astonished to discover Earth and all its life. The universe is mostly inanimate matter in which life is so rare that we would be excited just to find microbes. Every other planet we know about is barren, and that shines light on just how rare and beautiful Earth and its endless diversity of life truly is.
Yes and no. Consider the billions of stars with planets in our galaxy and then consider the billions of galaxies.
Then take a look at our little solar system. There’s us of course teeming with life ; there’s Mars which once had oceans on its surface , there’s Titan with possible basic life, there’s Europa with a hot core and water oceans under its ice coating. That’s just in one tiny solar system. We know water means life so just imagine what’s out there.
Thank you for the videos, Rob. They are fascinating and informative. I look forward to each new video, and still watch many of your past offerings as they continue to blow me away. All the best.
As I get older, I find myself growing less hopeful that humanity will ever find any life beyond the unicellular level. I worked as a NASA contractor at JSC for 25 years and saw and heard about enough problems that were not anticipated, that could have derailed many activities.
Too many mission planners heads are up their exhaust ports when it comes to bringing back potentially living organisms from Mars or anywhere else.
There was a movie called Life (2017) that explored this scenario with very bad results.
The ISS would be the LAST 😅place I would send any samples. What should be done is to build a base on the moon where this sort of work can be done safely. If (or when) something goes wrong the base could be isolated and if necessary destroyed.
Even if it takes an extra decade or two before we send human missions to Mars to collect samples, better a delay than an ecological catastrophe due to the arrogance of science committees and funding agencies that refused to remember the maxim of Murphy's Law: anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
We might get lucky, we might not.
Idk brother, I don’t think we should mess with the moon, that’s something that’s pivotal to our existence, now mars that’s not our moon or sun it doesn’t do anything for us, but if we destroy the moon we don’t only destroy our species but we also lose Mother Earth and probably the whole human existence period, maybe that’s why they never went back, maybe it was just a bucket list project to be the first country to go there…
If you worked for NASA then you probably know way more then me just my opinion on it…
We don’t know what keeps the moon going, we can go there and ruin it maybe the moon isn’t supposed to be tampered with just like the sun isn’t, we know that nuclear war has potential of ruin our ecosystem and even worst, but we don’t know what can destroy the moon, it can be as simple as humans being there too long, we literally destroy everything through greed…
Trust me bro I’m no NASA guy I wish I was lol but having humans on the moon for too long would turn into some idiot thinking about potentially conquering the moon or even mining on the moon to bring back organic precious materials/metals on earth for financial gains
@@djzone3654 A science base wouldn't hurt anything. The very least you need a energy source and some crops. It would help us figure out more about the moon. You cant figure out whats going on there if you don't actually do stuff there. However humans haven't been to the moon since the 70s. That was close to 50 years ago. Not to mention its not like we're going to have a whole colony there. Realistically, there's more potential to just have a base and some satellites and have it be a pit stop than to do anything else. The moon cant support a colony. Though it'd be a good stepping stone to doing so. Be super dope if we had more than one moon but we don't.
Youre worried we wont find life beyond the multicellular level?
Go look in a mirror. Life exists, complex, multicellular. Our world is the proof that the universal laws allow for this to happen.
There is one thing about the universe for certain; NOTHING happens once. Nothing,
That movie, Life, should be taken seriously! A dangerous lifeform will be humanity's demise!!!
Life is highly unlikely. Its accurate, but finding a cellular organism similar to calvin there aint no fucking place in the universe safe.
I understand the biology behind how Life portrayed the alien. And again if it were to be encountered - it was always a question of when and not if.
But another thing is that it'd be highly unlikely. I doubt any one person and group responsible for them would make such a dumb move in contamination
Aside from Europa, Titan is the cosmic body in our solar system that I'm most interested in. This was a fine video. Thank you.
Enceladus ???
@@karfomachet7265 - Yea. I think that was the one they actually sent a probe through the ice erupting from its southern hemisphere. They suspect there to be an ocean under its surface as well.
haumea and enceladus?
haumea is just insane in every aspect, and enceladus is yknow, enceladus
@@karfomachet7265 Enceladus is the one I'm interested in. It's also my favorite word. Cellar door has nothing on Enceladus.
How bout Triton?
DAMN!
This activate my vast imagination how could look that life on Titan...
Fantastic work.👏
Awesome, thanks for the upload!
My favorite space channel..
Love videos about titan.. great video Rob..👍👌💞💞
I see video from V101, I click Like! I am a simple person! I love the haunting mysterious melody in the background as well, and the idea of life on Titan is extremely intriguing!
How did Oryx’s body reach Titan’s surface 🤔
😂
Had to scroll too far for a destiny comment
Apparently it was drawn in once the darkness took it. The dungeon armor has a decent account of events
one of the main outstanding things about the Higens probe photos is the light it shows on the surface .appears very well lit like a day on Earth almost
Imagine seeing Saturn like that . Wonder if the radiation is Terriblw getting there or on the planet
@@jondoc7525 Titan's orbit is far enough from Saturn to be safe from the planet's radiation but close enough to be protected from solar and cosmic radiation by Saturn's magnetic field. So it's better than Mars in that respect.
Those are images in different lights. Titan is a dark world, with a very small window of dusk LIGHT. Titan is Frozen world. Any life would be carbon/nitrogen based on the surface. Titan would be amazing in the far far far future as the outer solar system warms up.
@@prirush8800 It would be a water world then. The ground, the mountains, everything solid on the surface is water ice.
@Rais yep, but life would need to be able to incorporate nitrogen as major building block in terms of FROZEN THAT TITAN IS. We humans use oxygen. The tiny organisms would definitely must use nitrogen for biology. It's just my opinion. We look for what makes us familiar or what already works.
Where as enceladus, Saturn's other moon would be water based, as there warmer waters from the inside. Water is perfect solvent for biology for our overall understanding.
I don't think we could find life on Titans surface oceans.
BUT it's underground water oceans might support an truly bizarre ecosystem.
How would the life just pop into existence? Scientifically life does not just materialize out of materials. Let alone become more and more complex from just natural processes. Evolution is extremely unscientific and pretty much a discarded notion at this time.
@@MrLaughingcorpse wow stunning ignorance
@@MrLaughingcorpse Let me get this straight, your logic is:
- Life cannot originate from minerals
- Therefore Evolution is unscientific
What does the origin of life have to do with Evolution? Evolution describes the process of how life could diversify and adapt via natural selection, this presupposes that the life already exists.
Another thing that has nothing to do with Evolution, but why do you think it's impossible for life to form from non-living components or materials? Seeing as we use them to survive as well as our body's fundamentally made of things that if isolated wouldn't be alive. I don't find it unlikely that the most simplest self replicating forms of "life" could have existed in the early oceans of Earth near underwater hydrothermal vents.
Although, life on Titan? Idk, seems like a bit of a stretch as no such kind of carbon based life form could live on there, and we don't know any other kind of lifeform that isn't carbon based yet.
@@Poliostasis Natural selection only uses existing genetic material. Evolution beyond that to new novel features has an absurd lack of scientific evidence. It is mainly a discarded theory at this point. The reason I say it is impossible is because scientifically it is. The smallest cell is extremely complex and DNA contains books of information. Your body is kept alive by many complex bio-machineries not to mention your consciousness. How did nature create consciousness?
@@MrLaughingcorpse bro got embarrassed 💀🎃
I was waiting for your next upload...and than you for uploading
I predict there'll be jellyfish like stuff there, and dozens of people will spend years arguing about whether it qualifies as life or not.
Fantastic Video like always V1. Much love Sir and happy weekend. 💯
I wonder if Titan was a planet and Saturn captured it as a moon in the chaos of the early solar system.
Technically, Titan is a planet. It’s just also a moon of Saturn.
@@Jellyman1129 The same could be said of our Moon.
@@DieFlabbergast Yes, that’s right.
And Triton
What a thought provoking video, V101 Space! Beautifully made
An extremely interesting video ! Thank you ! 🧡🧡🧡
Well done. I loved your narration and tone down on typical TH-cam baiting. Quality 10 minute or longer videos that welcome, rather than short video's is what I desire more of. Thanks again for a great useful video.👍👍
There probably was life billions of years ago.
No it was only three weeks !
Titan and Europa are my favorite moons.
Great video Rob as always, Titan has always been a favourite of mine with all its unique features.
tiny organisms with a huge moon all to them selves just swimming around in fart liquid peacefully
Truly the best existence
I was so excited when the Dragonfly mission to Titan was first announced, However that excitement was diminished greatly when its landing location was announced. NASA is missing a huge opportunity to stir waning public interest in space exploration by choosing to send it to the (relatively) arid equatorial regions rather than using to opportunity to show the public and explore something we've never witnessed before, that being of course, the polar seas and lakes.
Do you know if there's a practical reason for them not to aim its landing to the pole region?
Nice video my friend. Greetings from Greece
Thanks for the video. Titan is always interesting.
Wonderful video as always Rob! Such wonders and mysteries waiting for us to discover them out there, and I believe and really feel in my heart we're not the only ones looking out into the cosmos wondering if there's other life!
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My take is that life can be so weird there is a possibility we won't recognize it, even when it's staring in our eyes.
Just look at bacterial life on earth floating in the troposphere, or miles deep underground for example.
Whatever may live there, it will be Titans.
Single cell organisms don’t necessarily have to be miniature, move quickly and number in the billions.
Greetings from Kansas. Titan is certainly no holiday destination. I'll stay in Kansas. You and Rolo have a great weekend. 🇺🇸❤🇬🇧
a thousand years from now, we'll be visiting these planets as if we're going to walmart on the weekend. im so jealous of people born a thousand years from now😫
could people 1000 years from now smoke weed and drink a soda on a thursday afternoon while a perfect sunset dips under a green natural world? not with how we are deforesting, bitches living in the future gonna be way more depressed. just be happy you aint them.
I don't think there would be humans around then. Just practically speaking because Earth is getting polluted day by day.
I have an outpost here, and ive scanned all the flora and fauna
Life present in a subsurface ocean on Titan would kind of be like the equivalent of finding lava swimmers that live in the mantle of the Earth...actually I think I may have heard of that concept before, I think they called it the "silicon biosphere" or something like that.
There isn’t anything that lives in the mantle. That’s a bit too hot. They have found ancient organism fossils in the rock that has been sucked down close to the mantle. I think you’re thinking a few organisms that survive close to oceanic heat vents.
Any silicon based life would likely melt at those pressures and temperatures of the mantle. You’re thinking of what is called “the hypothetical silicon biosphere”. Supposedly you could use it as a building block, but no life like that exists that we know of. Everything here on earth evolved specifically from carbon building blocks
@Marshal Marrs no basis on reality? As if we would fucking know lol
@@calus_bath_water i mean we've been looking around nearby planes of existence for a while and nobody else seems to have been there so it's a safe assumption to make. maybe there is other life out there, but we could be the progenitors. we have no idea how long it takes for a galaxy to populate and we might just be the first ones to get a lucky existence. maybe we're the primogenitors of all sentience, on our way to spread life among the stars. or maybe there's more sentience out there but not nearly as advanced as us. alien cavemen, wonder what that'd look like.
Good work!! Just wish I could have been around when that proposed subsurface ocean is properly explored!!
I think that if you can be happy living in Vermont year-round, Titan should seem quite pleasant 😅
Hi Awesome video.
Enjoyed it.
Thanks.
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Just curious but I noticed you spoke of two different cells that could do the same job. Do you think we could create a human based life form from these Titan friendly organelles like an Adam and Eve for this planet and send them there under deep cryogenic conditions to possibly populate this moon? Because we recently decoded our sex chromosomes which should give us a fairly good understanding about DNA and life. So what do you think? Could we possibly do this instead of trying to terraform this moon?
Great vid!
"Titan was like most planets. Too many mouths, not enough to go around. And when we faced extinction, I offered a solution."
―Thanos
Some random dude on Titan: I Will Shred This Universe Down To Its Last Atom. And Then... Create A New One... A Grateful Universe.
A whole world with no beings is eerily fascinating
Came here to make a similar comment. I mean it’s eerie that the rest of the universe is happening without anything around (as far as we know) to witness it. But agree that an empty world that somewhat resembles ours is especially eerie
I want to live on such a world
Great video. I've always enjoyed watching videos on Titan. 😊
Had a space station orbiting Titan that could keep itself powered with natural gas you would have a never ending supply. Like the tv show deep space 9.
As always, great video!
I've been so excited for the Dragonfly mission since they announced it. Not long now until it launches. This is one of our only hopes of realistically finding life in our lifetimes. Europa is another potential location but the evidence for it there is far less convincing. I really hope the mission turns up something
Imagine if they actually found alien life during our lifetime. That would actual be insane
@Tobias Myhre I genuinely think they will (depending on people's ages I suppose) but I think the odds are good for some mission in the 2030s/2040s
I have hopes for Europa because the information and data they’ve gathered so far is promising. What The planet lacks in gravity it makes up for in atmospheric pressure. But once we’ve perfected fission and fusion energy we can literally be there in like days compared to years. Just hoping for a livable planet outside of our own so we as humans can expand.
good evening Rob -very interesting, thanks
Good evening Paul!
A hidden ocean inside? Like surprises in the Universe will never end!
Most large moons in the solar system have subsurface ocenas
@@skurinski Not expected in this one...
Our universe is a fascinating place. Thanks for sharing this insightful and interesting video about Titan
How can anyone speculate what life might look like there? We can barely predict the weather correctly.
he said in the beginning it’s mostly all imagination and predictions from scientists
Excellent video! Very well put together.
Life on Titan has already been proven.
His name is Thanos, The Mad Titan
What's with the perfect circle on the top left at 1:50????
I’m sad that i will never experience space travel, deep sea/ocean exploration and space exploration in my lifetime. I just wish i can be alive to see the universe and everything it has 😢
Same
At least we get to cherish this time
You can my friend! Just obey Acts 2:38 and walk in obedience to Christ. You will then have eternity to ponder the universe.
They say a ship named Earthanic sunk to the bottom of one of the lakes there
I did a uni essay on life on titan possibility and got a distinction
The best space channel!
As fantastic as it sounds the cell structure required to survive in Titan's seas would result in creatures/beings that are more or less ice creatures or as close to it as it gets complete with frigid 'blood' and an icy touch. Much like the other theorized form of life being powered & based around chemical energy (not by food conversion) would be probably be sentient slimes.
I have a feeling that there could be life in many places. There could be life on the sun. Who's to say it's impossible? A life form that can comfortably live in such a hot environment. Thin plasma may be impossibly thin for us in our dense cold bodies, but what if there is an entirely separate plane of element formations that we cannot detect?
@@George546-he5tz Seems you brainwashed people don't see the difference between a planet able to host some life form and a planet having all the required things needed to produce life.
Seems more likely that there is only 1 planet with all the perfect conditions to produce life.....
Apollo 11's Michael Collins said Titan is his favourite candidate for human exploration.
I think that Thanos from the Marvel universe might be the answer to those suspicious scientists figuring out if there’s possible life on Titan! Even though in the Marvel universe, Titan is considered a planet by the characters but still orbits Saturn and is the home of Thanos 😆
@@BrajBliss IKT (I know that)
There are hundreds of galaxies in the universe. I'm certain there are forms of life somewhere out there.
That’s an understatement
@@AndrewHedlund100 you in Denail
@@keencosmo5636 no he’s right. There’s like an uncountable amount of galaxies in the universe.
@@keencosmo5636 he said understatement not overstatement
Nah, I've been there. Lot's of Titanium though and there's a new Homestead settlement there too. It's UC space so it's safe too.
Had a dream about cave rafting on Titan once. There were these huge teethless shark creatures that would feed under waterfalls and gulp rafters before spitting them out to safety. It was great fun!
you have very exciting dreams
@@WaningLoon Fr lmao I want this guy's dreams haha
Got some Scylla vibes there, Odysseus. Nice movie/game idea
Stay off the mushrooms brother
@@firestuka8850 there's a game called barotrauma that puts you on europa as a submarine commander. lots of alien fish things trying to kill you, fun game.
Great channel ❤
What's the name of the music in this video please ?
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. The music is by a brilliant composer called Simon Wilkinson and the track is called "New World Dawn". Here is his website - www.thebluemask.com/
Wish I was on Titan now lol.
Thank you ❤
I love this channel. This guy freaks me out. I feel like I'm seeing Bigfoot or something...
I really hope we'll see a base established on Titan in my lifetime. Of course it will be incredibly challenging and only achievable with advanced propulsion technologies like Fusion but it feels like something that could be achieved by the end of this century.
Not hating on your age or nothing I just disagree and im assuming youre young (me too lol). I think we're still hundred of years out of sending people to other planets
@@charliewhammy Sad reality
@@charliewhammy I'm young enough to not need to get over 100 years old in order to witness the end of this century. And i think it might just be possible. Of course not likely but possible if more efforts were dedicated to space exploration. I like to think positive about the things happening in my lifetime rather than calling something impossible. I mean it took less than 70 years from the first plane flight to Apollo 11.(I am aware that this is a very stretched comparison but i think it gets the point)
@@charliewhammy we definitely have the ability to send people to other planets but getting them back is another story 😅
@@superkartoffel7479 it would absolutely be nice to see. Your point wasn't stretched. Well said!
Well, isn't Titan just a cosmic surprise party? Next thing you know, it'll be hosting intergalactic picnics and offering free WiFi to passing spacecraft. Titan, the neighborhood you never knew you wanted
What if the entire universe is simply the innner body of some unimaginably gigantic organism?
Holy "Immunity Syndrome" , Batman!🖖🖖🖖🦇🦇🦇
Thankfully that's not important to the extreme majority.
Ahsa be chillin there
There was life there until Thanos wiped it all out
Fascinating video, very well made 🙏🏽😎❤️
If we can manipulate the weather on earth like using cloud seeding, I'm sure in the future we'll be able to terraform Titan in no time at all.
That entire planet must smell horrific!
Awesome video, 🌍
Titan was like most planets. Too many mouths, not enough to go around. And when we faced extinction, I offered a solution.
love his voice, it is serious and makes every word sound important lol and sounds documentary like
The Traveler touched down and made it habitable ;)
Interesting video. I only realised until 3/4 of the way through the video that the narrator was saying "habour"... I thought he was saying "Hubba" 😂
I was living happy and a private life on Titan, My mission was not to be discovered,But now...!!.Please human let me live in peace. Habbadabba ( Swearing in Titanian Language)