You know, in ten or twenty years, we'll come back to videos like this and say 'look at how far we've come in such a short time'. I wish we could figure out how to travel at light speed or faster in my lifetime. If humanity is going to spead to the stars, there are certainly planets better suited than Mars. Then again, maybe we'll learn how to make use of what already exists in our solar system to help fix all we've fucked up.
"A bearded Eren Yeager wanabe named Zeus" YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT WRITER. Also, its always funny to me when Simon is made to talk about anime or Lord of the Rings by his writers, and he often doesn't know when he's referencing them.
@@ShannonCarter55 he had said multiple times on multiple channels that he doesn’t watch it understand this. Or most of Star Wars, or a bunch of other pop culture references.
Random fun fact, despite both Titan and Ganymede are larger than Mercury, the combined mass of both of them would be less than Mercury, because Mercury is the second densest planet after Earth
The core of mercury is mostly iron due to the solar wind strength at that distance while the cores of Titan abd Ganymede are most likely rock, hydrocarbons, water and ices.
@@TheJMBon I am really confused by your comment. What does the solar wind strength have to do with the iron core please? A lot of these comments go right over my head but I really want to understand them. Peace 😉
Titan is, to me, far more interesting than Mars as a potential future space-flight destination (crewed or not): Although its much smaller than Earth (about midway between the diameters of Mars and our Moon), its atmospheric pressures are higher: about half-again Earth’s. That makes building structures much easier, and simplifies radiation shielding. As you pointed out, Titan probably has an underground ocean, which is an incredible opportunity for Biological research. Internal-combustion engines would, conceptually, be possible to run on Titan, but instead of *fuel* tanks, they would have *oxygen* tanks, taking in and burning methane from the air around it!
Both the Europa Clipper and Dragonfly are one of the projects I work on at NASA and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. These are monumental projects that will probably help redefine our understanding of science in general. Now do one on the project LISA. It is a team of satellites that will orbit a million miles apart and will detect gravitational waves in space and time. Further proving Einstein's theory. Or how about the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - which will replace Hubble and will capture 100 times more of the universe's sky in one capture. It should collect as much data in 6 months as Hubble did in its lifetime. Or you can do some of the boring earth science stuff like PACE which will scan all the earth's water every 3 days and we will know what is living in the water by the color of it. It is one of the most advanced telescopic satellites NASA has ever built. The telescope spins at 6 times per second and uses a spectrometer (measures the colors of light). There are also some cool things like a robot that will refuel satellites in space. There is even talk of refueling ones that are not meant to be refueled by cutting them open. It's a robotic satellite repair technician.
Thank you. You’re doing some of the most important work in the history of the human race. It may not feel like it now, but in time you’ll all be regarded among the historic titans (sorry) of astronomy as you leapfrog human understanding of the cosmos forward. Just some encouragement. There ARE members of the public out there dreaming of this stuff every day of their lives, waiting for the next discovery and advancement. And you lot are our heroes.
I love hearing about the outer moons, things always get wild around Jupiter and Saturn. Ceres, the largest asteroid in the Asteroid Belt, is also super fun to study.
If Dragonfly manages to cover 8km per flight, it really would be impressive. Ingenuity has only managed to fly about 3.5km so far after several flights. The density of the atmosphere Titan has vs Mars makes the dynamics of flight entirely different, so it's not an apples to apples comparison, but it is crazy to think that we can send these vehicles 100's of thousands of miles through space and land them pretty consistently, and then the vehicles themselves take years to cover less distance than most people will while they commute to work haha
I think it comes down to the lift capacity. On Mars, Ingenuity has to work really hard just to lift its own weight. That limits the size of battery it can carry, and in turn the distance it can travel in one go. On Titan, with much thicker atmosphere and lower gravity, it's not working as hard, which means it could carry more batteries and achieve longer flights. There's another aspect to consider: Ingenuity wasn't designed to cover ground. It was designed to fly up several meters and take some pictures. Earth-based quadcopters have no problem hitting 100kph. If you were wiling to accept that kind of speed on Titan, then that 8km flight would last just under 5 minutes. Thats 2x the duration Ingenuity has managed, but only 1/3 the duration you might expect from a decent commercial drone on Earth.
As a Seattle Native I wanted to say "Hey!" but then I looked outside... Yea, the Sun is called Day Star here and there are myths spoken of it from Oct-April.
From Cali here, the day star is fierce here. We have weird rumors of these gray things and water falling around the same time Oct-April. I always wondered where the sun went to during that time.
What are you all talking about? I've lived here over a decade and the weather hasn't been anywhere NEAR the descriptions provided by Frazier. You'd think it was rainy every day of the year except for maybe 5 minutes of sunburst. And what Seattleites call rain here is called an annoying mist back home..
Don't worry, Pixie, Simon's a Brit so I'm sure he understands your plight. He might live in Prague now, but back in London sunshine is mostly just theoretical.
I feel like if this was one of his more casual channels he'd go off on a bit of a tangent here, like "...who? Yeager like the alcohol? *insert drinking with mates story"" I don't think Simo is much into the anime (could be wrong) so shoutout to the script writer 😂👏🏽
Your videos get me through my day. We spend 8 hrs loading and unloading trucks. Everyone else is blasting Metallica and other heavy metals (🤟🏼fair enough) but I’m on your channel learning about oligarchs and historical fallacies. The space vids are always a treat. Thank you, a million times over.
@@bob_the_bomb4508 we’ve gotta move these color T.V.s There’s also gotta be someway outta here, said the joker to the thief😂😂 Really glad my parents “forced” their beautiful music into my ears.
Titan is my favourite celestial body in the solar system. I'd love to sit beneath the hazy sky, on a cliff overlooking its seas of liquid methane, slowly drifting to sleep to the sound of hydrocarbons lapping against the shore. It's such a fascinating, dreamy little place, tucked away in a part of the solar system you wouldn't expect to find anything like it
I especially love these astrobiological topics and scenarios that, as Simon puts it either drastically 'underestimates or overstimates our astrobilogical understanding'.... Fun fact for AstroBio needs btw; the kind of hypothetical life built off of Titans (m)ethane lakes would (as imagined) still fit the Carbon-chauvinist model, just not the water-as-solvent model
I love how straight faced Simon is when making an attack on titan joke, when I know he has no idea what he is making the joke about (from a brain blaze video).
"The Whistler Probe"... why does that conjure unexpected images? As an aside it is incredible to comprehend that Titan might host not one but two independent Genesis' from Earth - one in the sub-surface ocean of water and one in the surface oceans of hydrocarbons. Of course there's almost certainly nothing there at all but for now we can dream.
Maybe one day we can have gateways that’ll get us to Titan and Ganymede in mere seconds, à la Cowboy Bebop. Then again, the Earth got a little bit busted up due to a gate incident...oh well, sci-fi dreams are just that.
you can go there in the spirit.... I did, they wanted ceizium163 2.2 kilograms and it is interesting the casiny had not launched when I went to titan in 1987
@@jeffreypardy2831 I won’t say it’s a definite scientific impossibility, but it’s pretty damn close. Not to be rude, but all of why you said is either complete hogwash at best, and complete and utter lunacy at worst. What is it you’re referring to when you talk about cesium? How does that make any sense?
@@Dank-gb6jn cesium 163 is the power source for the probe that landed on titan it is interesting that what the inhabitants on titan needed for their project is what was sent by nasa without direct communication with nasa and myself
One tiny issue it takes light 80 minutes to travel to Titan not 18. Saturn is 9.5 A.U. away from the sun an A.U being the average distance from the sun to the Earth. It takes 8 minutes for light to reach Earth got to multiply that by 9.5 to reach Titan. Great content across all your channels all very interesting 👍🏻
Titan is definitely the Mars of the outer solar system. Our biggest colony outside of Earth and Mars And maybe our last bastion of life in this solar system as the sun goes red giant and warms up the outer solar system for habitability
11:55 Ya na kadishtu nilgh'ri stell'bsna Nyogtha, K'yarnak phlegethor l'ebumna syha'h n'ghft, Ya hai kadishtu ep r'luh-eeh Nyogtha eeh, s'uhn-ngh athg li'hee orr'e syha'h. Do not question the power of chaos.
In an age where we're still blowing each other up un pointless willy-swinging wars, we still manage to demonstrate our insatiable curiosity, trying to find out what's out there in space...
Totally wicked!. I remember the 1st images of Pluto from New Horizons after waiting 9 years. I can only imagine with our rapidly advancing technology what imaging of Titan from Dragonfly will be like. But I'll be in my 50s by then
Titan is often thought of as, 4 billion years ago, close to a twin of the Earth of the time. But since then, Earth grew alive, whereas Titan went into the deep freeze!
One thing I would love to do before I die is set foot on another world... I would even settle for the moon. At the current pace, it isn't looking too good but I am still optimistic that medical breakthroughs will at some point allow me to live long enough to get out there.
It won't take Elon another 10 years to make moon trips a tourist attraction. Add another 20 and it is affordable to upper middle class people who really really want to prioritize it.
Soooo... serious question: would it make sense and put MUCH more resources into the Titan mission and add like 2-3 people on a one-way mission, so that in turn they can perform real-time management, maintenance etc., improving the chances? Because people signed up for much sillier things in the past, I have no doubts there'd be many volunteers happy to sacrifice their lives for unprecedented scientific improvements...
My husband and I went to a Science museum in Rochester, NY, enjoying a video from the Cassini-Huygens satellite/probe/lander in the summer of 2004. It was awesome. I'd definitely recommend stopping by the museum though I cannot remember its name (sorry).
There are slight similarities, but the Biblical space-faring objects seem to be described as bio-mechanical, as well as possibly 4-dimensional. Think of them as living multi-dimensional objects, using multi-axis gyroscopic masses to allow incredibly fast movements from place to place, possibly without physically traveling through the intervening distance. Something so much more complicated than a quad-copter, yet still governed by similar principles, though affected quite differently by them.
I don’t know who put the title on this video, but their definition of “Earthlike” is extremely loose. Titan has oceans of hydrocarbons and is cold enough to make electronics run noticeably faster than on Earth, for crying out loud!
The number of solar systems that exists beyond our own is a number we can’t comprehend. If there are trillions of galaxies imagine how many solar systems there are. People fear alien life but I fear that we are truly alone in this vast expanse of space. Which is statically improbable.
" I fear that we are truly alone in this vast expanse of space. " and stuck on a 'prison planet' with chimpanzees constantly trying to kill each other. & fighting over Earth's finite resources in a Universe with INFINITE RESOURCES!!
@ 12:30 ; The theory of cell membranes working in crazy backwards ways . . . So Titan's microbiology would be Insane In The Membrane ? Wow, Noble Prize for Cypress Hill !
Ice at the bottom of the sea would be very bad for chances of life, the only power source it would have would be volcanic vents who would then be covered with this ice. And even at Europa the energy release is not much, in short yes it could be life but the biosphere would be very poor so nothing multicellular. Surface of Titan much of the same issues also the low temperature would slow stuff down.
My son is working on one of these projects. his wont go for many years. but the tech? just amazing. cant even tell you what the tech is but its amazing. If my son can get one of his projects to work, world game changer. cars to horse, hand tool to power tool kinda change.
I've literally just read about this place, no idea if it's real of if you've done a video on it, but what about a video on "Cairn de Barnenez" in Brittany, France apparently
Everyone forgets that Jupiter and Saturn puts out heavy radiation. Life can be very threatened by radiation. Thank goodness Earth has magnetic fields that repell a lot of the Sun's radiation.
Excellent video, though I could have done without the reference to Attack on Titan…but still, absolutely wild to think that a place so like earth yet so unlike it at the same time exists, and that we know so much about it.
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You know, in ten or twenty years, we'll come back to videos like this and say 'look at how far we've come in such a short time'. I wish we could figure out how to travel at light speed or faster in my lifetime. If humanity is going to spead to the stars, there are certainly planets better suited than Mars. Then again, maybe we'll learn how to make use of what already exists in our solar system to help fix all we've fucked up.
This video is so much more sick than even Simon realizes👌🏽
If Titan wasn't in orbit around Saturn, it would be considered a planet
@@bradyryan5105 uhhh yes. That's usually how it works.
Did you say Castillo? 😂
"Eren Yeager wannabe, Zeus."
Might be my new favorite reference joke Simon has made.
I'm gonna assume it's a reference to Attack on Titan? I know nothing of anime aside from that it exists.
@@cleverusername9369 correct
@@cleverusername9369 ok boomer
I know! LOVED that one! Pretty accurate too, LOL!
"A bearded Eren Yeager wanabe named Zeus" YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT WRITER. Also, its always funny to me when Simon is made to talk about anime or Lord of the Rings by his writers, and he often doesn't know when he's referencing them.
I love that he hit that and didn't flinch. Lmao
What makes you think he doesn't know about anime or LOTR?
@@ShannonCarter55 cause he has said so himself.
@@ShannonCarter55 he had said multiple times on multiple channels that he doesn’t watch it understand this. Or most of Star Wars, or a bunch of other pop culture references.
Who is "Eren?" (Mssp?) Yeager?
Random fun fact, despite both Titan and Ganymede are larger than Mercury, the combined mass of both of them would be less than Mercury, because Mercury is the second densest planet after Earth
I didn't think a planet that would be thicker than me...
Crappy joke i know 😔
The core of mercury is mostly iron due to the solar wind strength at that distance while the cores of Titan abd Ganymede are most likely rock, hydrocarbons, water and ices.
but mercury would weigh more if it would be size of earth.
@@TheJMBon I am really confused by your comment. What does the solar wind strength have to do with the iron core please? A lot of these comments go right over my head but I really want to understand them. Peace 😉
Rock is more dense than water or methane....
The writers tricking Simon into making anime references he doesn’t understand.
Lmao!!!
Knew I was not the only one to catch that AOT insert.
It’s so amazing knowing he is thinking “who tf is Eren Yeager?”
Too bad it had to be a reference to THAT particular anime…
It's so adorable.
Ahh, I do so love it when Simon geeks out about space topics. Delightful and very well written - thank you for another fantastic space video!!
Simon just glazing over anime references without even realizing they were there gets me every time
Titan is, to me, far more interesting than Mars as a potential future space-flight destination (crewed or not):
Although its much smaller than Earth (about midway between the diameters of Mars and our Moon), its atmospheric pressures are higher: about half-again Earth’s. That makes building structures much easier, and simplifies radiation shielding. As you pointed out, Titan probably has an underground ocean, which is an incredible opportunity for Biological research.
Internal-combustion engines would, conceptually, be possible to run on Titan, but instead of *fuel* tanks, they would have *oxygen* tanks, taking in and burning methane from the air around it!
Both the Europa Clipper and Dragonfly are one of the projects I work on at NASA and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. These are monumental projects that will probably help redefine our understanding of science in general.
Now do one on the project LISA. It is a team of satellites that will orbit a million miles apart and will detect gravitational waves in space and time. Further proving Einstein's theory.
Or how about the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - which will replace Hubble and will capture 100 times more of the universe's sky in one capture. It should collect as much data in 6 months as Hubble did in its lifetime.
Or you can do some of the boring earth science stuff like PACE which will scan all the earth's water every 3 days and we will know what is living in the water by the color of it. It is one of the most advanced telescopic satellites NASA has ever built. The telescope spins at 6 times per second and uses a spectrometer (measures the colors of light).
There are also some cool things like a robot that will refuel satellites in space. There is even talk of refueling ones that are not meant to be refueled by cutting them open. It's a robotic satellite repair technician.
Thank you.
You’re doing some of the most important work in the history of the human race. It may not feel like it now, but in time you’ll all be regarded among the historic titans (sorry) of astronomy as you leapfrog human understanding of the cosmos forward.
Just some encouragement. There ARE members of the public out there dreaming of this stuff every day of their lives, waiting for the next discovery and advancement. And you lot are our heroes.
Fantastic! 👍👍🤞 Best regards.
I’m still more excited about the Enceladus Orbilander than the Europa Clipper.
Oh my goodness everyone please give this man some attention!!
I look forward to doing QC on some of the launch vehicles' components.
Ad astra!
I love hearing about the outer moons, things always get wild around Jupiter and Saturn.
Ceres, the largest asteroid in the Asteroid Belt, is also super fun to study.
The Protomolecule thought so, too . . .
If Dragonfly manages to cover 8km per flight, it really would be impressive. Ingenuity has only managed to fly about 3.5km so far after several flights. The density of the atmosphere Titan has vs Mars makes the dynamics of flight entirely different, so it's not an apples to apples comparison, but it is crazy to think that we can send these vehicles 100's of thousands of miles through space and land them pretty consistently, and then the vehicles themselves take years to cover less distance than most people will while they commute to work haha
I think it comes down to the lift capacity. On Mars, Ingenuity has to work really hard just to lift its own weight. That limits the size of battery it can carry, and in turn the distance it can travel in one go. On Titan, with much thicker atmosphere and lower gravity, it's not working as hard, which means it could carry more batteries and achieve longer flights.
There's another aspect to consider: Ingenuity wasn't designed to cover ground. It was designed to fly up several meters and take some pictures. Earth-based quadcopters have no problem hitting 100kph. If you were wiling to accept that kind of speed on Titan, then that 8km flight would last just under 5 minutes. Thats 2x the duration Ingenuity has managed, but only 1/3 the duration you might expect from a decent commercial drone on Earth.
I expect, way more than 15 minute battery life, what?
As a Seattle Native I wanted to say "Hey!" but then I looked outside... Yea, the Sun is called Day Star here and there are myths spoken of it from Oct-April.
Ha! The American arm of my family centre around Seattle/Tacoma - they call it "Sunny Seattle".
Go Seahawks!
From Cali here, the day star is fierce here. We have weird rumors of these gray things and water falling around the same time Oct-April. I always wondered where the sun went to during that time.
Chaz is a wonderful place
What are you all talking about? I've lived here over a decade and the weather hasn't been anywhere NEAR the descriptions provided by Frazier. You'd think it was rainy every day of the year except for maybe 5 minutes of sunburst. And what Seattleites call rain here is called an annoying mist back home..
Don't worry, Pixie, Simon's a Brit so I'm sure he understands your plight. He might live in Prague now, but back in London sunshine is mostly just theoretical.
That Titan joke caught me off guard at the beginning lmao.
I feel like if this was one of his more casual channels he'd go off on a bit of a tangent here, like "...who? Yeager like the alcohol? *insert drinking with mates story""
I don't think Simo is much into the anime (could be wrong) so shoutout to the script writer 😂👏🏽
@@staytuned2L337 Oh eh totally isn't. Its his script writer. XD
Your videos get me through my day.
We spend 8 hrs loading and unloading trucks. Everyone else is blasting Metallica and other heavy metals (🤟🏼fair enough) but I’m on your channel learning about oligarchs and historical fallacies. The space vids are always a treat. Thank you, a million times over.
“We gotta shift these microwave ovens…”
@@bob_the_bomb4508 we’ve gotta move these color T.V.s
There’s also gotta be someway outta here, said the joker to the thief😂😂
Really glad my parents “forced” their beautiful music into my ears.
Thank you for that you do, Robert Lockwood, live long and prosper!
Titan is my favourite celestial body in the solar system. I'd love to sit beneath the hazy sky, on a cliff overlooking its seas of liquid methane, slowly drifting to sleep to the sound of hydrocarbons lapping against the shore. It's such a fascinating, dreamy little place, tucked away in a part of the solar system you wouldn't expect to find anything like it
Europa is what does it for me.
I myself remain an Ares-phile.
Ready to enlist in the MCRN!
I dunno I like Earth
I especially love these astrobiological topics and scenarios that, as Simon puts it either drastically 'underestimates or overstimates our astrobilogical understanding'....
Fun fact for AstroBio needs btw; the kind of hypothetical life built off of Titans (m)ethane lakes would (as imagined) still fit the Carbon-chauvinist model, just not the water-as-solvent model
I love how straight faced Simon is when making an attack on titan joke, when I know he has no idea what he is making the joke about (from a brain blaze video).
It was either that, or, a Thanos joke, lol!
“Titan is like an onion or an ogre. It has layers” 😂 love it
Love that Shrek reference
And then it hits you with ICE SIX
@@matthewrussell4679 ❤️😂bet!
Love to see what kind of creatures live in those oceans
There's a movie called "Europa Report." You'd maybe like it.
Do we already know what kinds of creatures live in our own oceans?
@@michaelmoore7975 we research 2 things at once, there's like at least a dozen humans
@@wearblackclothes, possibly 2 dozen, but IDK.
I had a book on all the solar system and moons as a kid. Titan was always one of my faves
Another cracking video from one of my favourite writers in the Whistler-verse. The new discoveries that might be made are just mind-blowing.
🤣 the whistler probe made me laugh way to hard
Temperatures so low water becomes as hard as a rock.
In Canada we call that "Ice".
As always, a fascinating look into our own solar system. Another job well done. Thanks Simon!
"The Whistler Probe"... why does that conjure unexpected images?
As an aside it is incredible to comprehend that Titan might host not one but two independent Genesis' from Earth - one in the sub-surface ocean of water and one in the surface oceans of hydrocarbons.
Of course there's almost certainly nothing there at all but for now we can dream.
Maybe one day we can have gateways that’ll get us to Titan and Ganymede in mere seconds, à la Cowboy Bebop. Then again, the Earth got a little bit busted up due to a gate incident...oh well, sci-fi dreams are just that.
you can go there in the spirit.... I did, they wanted ceizium163 2.2 kilograms and it is interesting the casiny had not launched when I went to titan in 1987
@@jeffreypardy2831 what...are you on about?
@@Dank-gb6jn read my post life is on titan
@@jeffreypardy2831 I won’t say it’s a definite scientific impossibility, but it’s pretty damn close. Not to be rude, but all of why you said is either complete hogwash at best, and complete and utter lunacy at worst. What is it you’re referring to when you talk about cesium? How does that make any sense?
@@Dank-gb6jn cesium 163 is the power source for the probe that landed on titan it is interesting that what the inhabitants on titan needed for their project is what was sent by nasa without direct communication with nasa and myself
One tiny issue it takes light 80 minutes to travel to Titan not 18. Saturn is 9.5 A.U. away from the sun an A.U being the average distance from the sun to the Earth. It takes 8 minutes for light to reach Earth got to multiply that by 9.5 to reach Titan. Great content across all your channels all very interesting 👍🏻
your demeanor is just so pleasant throughout the whole video. loved this one
I am a space nerd and your explanations at the start have pleased me.
Titan is definitely the Mars of the outer solar system. Our biggest colony outside of Earth and Mars
And maybe our last bastion of life in this solar system as the sun goes red giant and warms up the outer solar system for habitability
11:55 Ya na kadishtu nilgh'ri stell'bsna Nyogtha, K'yarnak phlegethor l'ebumna syha'h n'ghft, Ya hai kadishtu ep r'luh-eeh Nyogtha eeh, s'uhn-ngh athg li'hee orr'e syha'h. Do not question the power of chaos.
My favorite thing about Titan is the New Pacific Archology. Really amazing feat of human engineering.
The writer Morris went above and beyond on this one. Laughed so much while being informed. "Eren Jaeger wannabe" LOL!
I wish we would explore these moons already.
We have military bases on everyone of these moons and other celestial bodies..
@@stonehaven2289 Do you? Which world are you from? Good on you and your planet, BTW>
@@tonylove4800 Wherever it is, must have pretty good internet access.
@@stonehaven2289 "we"? Are you human? lmao
@@stonehaven2289 bro living in proxima
Deffo the funniest script so far. Your opening gag about precipitation occupying 95% of British small talk was spot on! 😂
In an age where we're still blowing each other up un pointless willy-swinging wars, we still manage to demonstrate our insatiable curiosity, trying to find out what's out there in space...
The Undying Mercenaries series has a book called Machine World that is roughly based on a Titan like world. ScFi please do a show based off the books!
Totally wicked!. I remember the 1st images of Pluto from New Horizons after waiting 9 years. I can only imagine with our rapidly advancing technology what imaging of Titan from Dragonfly will be like. But I'll be in my 50s by then
Titan is often thought of as, 4 billion years ago, close to a twin of the Earth of the time. But since then, Earth grew alive, whereas Titan went into the deep freeze!
I am totally using "a thousand HP Lovecrafts on a thousand typewriters."
That's almost as cold as Finland
It was actually snowing in Helsinki City Center today 😂 (I live in Helsinki).
RIP Opportunity, I actually shed a tear when that thing shut down
One thing I would love to do before I die is set foot on another world... I would even settle for the moon. At the current pace, it isn't looking too good but I am still optimistic that medical breakthroughs will at some point allow me to live long enough to get out there.
It won't take Elon another 10 years to make moon trips a tourist attraction. Add another 20 and it is affordable to upper middle class people who really really want to prioritize it.
@@andersjjensen I doubt that. They will market it to the Mega rich, so it will in no way be affordable for a normal person.
Cheers for that Simon, great video as always, and thank you to H.M.S Whistler for that outstanding journey!
Soooo... serious question: would it make sense and put MUCH more resources into the Titan mission and add like 2-3 people on a one-way mission, so that in turn they can perform real-time management, maintenance etc., improving the chances?
Because people signed up for much sillier things in the past, I have no doubts there'd be many volunteers happy to sacrifice their lives for unprecedented scientific improvements...
Love for Simon Whistler just wonderful presentation and interesting topics always
It's the third time in 6 hours that I hear that Shrek reference.
I think the universe has something to tell me.
Did you go watch Shrek?
Or you might actually be an Ogre.
My husband and I went to a Science museum in Rochester, NY, enjoying a video from the Cassini-Huygens satellite/probe/lander in the summer of 2004. It was awesome. I'd definitely recommend stopping by the museum though I cannot remember its name (sorry).
We have a science museum?
I hit that like button so many times for that AOT reference!!! My man!!!
Same!
That Titan lander Dragonfly remins me of the "Spaceships of Ezekiel" ... a lot!!
There are slight similarities, but the Biblical space-faring objects seem to be described as bio-mechanical, as well as possibly 4-dimensional. Think of them as living multi-dimensional objects, using multi-axis gyroscopic masses to allow incredibly fast movements from place to place, possibly without physically traveling through the intervening distance. Something so much more complicated than a quad-copter, yet still governed by similar principles, though affected quite differently by them.
I don’t know who put the title on this video, but their definition of “Earthlike” is extremely loose. Titan has oceans of hydrocarbons and is cold enough to make electronics run noticeably faster than on Earth, for crying out loud!
This video is 👌🏽 the writer deserves a ton of credit. Very well written indeed!
The jokes on this episode were pretty good. Nice.
Joke dropping is on point. Great job
The number of solar systems that exists beyond our own is a number we can’t comprehend. If there are trillions of galaxies imagine how many solar systems there are. People fear alien life but I fear that we are truly alone in this vast expanse of space. Which is statically improbable.
" I fear that we are truly alone in this vast expanse of space. " and stuck on a 'prison planet' with chimpanzees constantly trying to kill each other. & fighting over Earth's finite resources in a Universe with INFINITE RESOURCES!!
Simon attempting to do a Canadian accent and failing is the most British thing that has ever happened.
Amazing script! Great intro and closing.
@ 12:30 ; The theory of cell membranes working in crazy backwards ways . . . So Titan's microbiology would be Insane In The Membrane ? Wow, Noble Prize for Cypress Hill !
10:51 "Dead inside as your ex.."
🤣🤣 Hahaha
As a Canadian I nearly died at the comment "it's chilly here, eh?" Fantastic! Thank you Simon!
Especialy when parts of BC reached almost 50°C last summer.
@@canuckprogressive.3435 I'm from Kamloops in the interior. We were at 50° several days. It was mind blowing.
@@donaldmacarthur I saw a temp sign in a parking lot in Grand Forks read 50 and it sure felt like it. Crazy stuff indeed.
It felt like the air was on fire.
With the AoT reference u clever dog!
Attack on Titans: Mount Olympus Part 1
The Whistler Probe must be a real thing someday!
"As dead inside as your ex."😂😂😂😂
Loved the content and the presentation, but HOLY COW! Why so many ads?
It’s people like you that make the world a better place. Science for the win!
"Impressive Girth" Had me CRACKING up! LOLOL
Ice at the bottom of the sea would be very bad for chances of life, the only power source it would have would be volcanic vents who would then be covered with this ice.
And even at Europa the energy release is not much, in short yes it could be life but the biosphere would be very poor so nothing multicellular.
Surface of Titan much of the same issues also the low temperature would slow stuff down.
Excellent work Simon! Of course when some of those missions happen, I'll be really really old, if I'm still around!
Absolutely love the attack titan references
This is so awesome I've always wondered about Titan
This is the second time you’ve mentioned aot lol I love it
Thank you.
Mind blowing realization, we went from the Wright brothers to Cassini-Huygens in one human lifetime
11:57 - Ah, but an infinite number of Lovecrafts with an infinite number of typewriters will describe them in their entirety almost instantaneously :)
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. I guess Titan is his winter retreat? Closer than Pluto/Yuggoth, which is a bit of a hike.
Next, I'd love to learn more about Triton, planet Neptune's largest natural moon
Nice AOT reference
10:52 finally someone understands
Another fantastic space video,,, so intriguing
I appreciate the Lovecraft shout out
3:00 "Seasons last seven years" So that is where The Song of Ice & Fires takes place?
It's weird how I love how he says "me-thane" instead of the U.S. way "meth-ane"
I didn't know you had a new channel. I better subscribe.
Love the anime reference said with a straight face 😂
"Simon Probe" okay so that's what you call it . . . 😆
It was the rumbling reference that got me.
My son is working on one of these projects. his wont go for many years. but the tech? just amazing. cant even tell you what the tech is but its amazing. If my son can get one of his projects to work, world game changer. cars to horse, hand tool to power tool kinda change.
"Earth-like" is a leap when it's average temperature is -179°C.
I would LOVE to visit Titan!
Cleveland is cloudier than Seattle btw.
mate. I'm 38. they need to crack on! i wouldn't mind seeing all this stuff!!
"Stop right there thief!" "Meethane" "Oh, sorry Thane. I didn't recognize you"
Excellent video 📹
Probes, drones and remote helicopter 🚁 is the way forward
I've literally just read about this place, no idea if it's real of if you've done a video on it, but what about a video on "Cairn de Barnenez" in Brittany, France apparently
The Eren yeager part 😂😂😂I died
I like the Attack on Titan reference.
The Voyagers still function also.
Omg I am fascinated by Titan! Thank you for making this one!
The writers really did a solid here 👏👏
Everyone forgets that Jupiter and Saturn puts out heavy radiation. Life can be very threatened by radiation. Thank goodness Earth has magnetic fields that repell a lot of the Sun's radiation.
The Shrek-reference was nice! :)
Excellent video, though I could have done without the reference to Attack on Titan…but still, absolutely wild to think that a place so like earth yet so unlike it at the same time exists, and that we know so much about it.
Dragonfly just better keep an eye out for any big purple wrinkly-chin dudes with jewel-encrusted golden gloves.