TitanAir: The Futuristic Seaplane for Exploring Alien Lakes
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Even on Earth, there are creatures that exist that might as well be "aliens" for our own intents and purposes. In the deepest depths of the oceans, some *must* and can *only* exist at pressures that would cause us to implode. There are radiotrophic fungi (fungus that survive off of other forms of radiation rather than sunlight) that are growing and thriving in the Chernobyl "tomb" without any sort of sunlight present whatsoever since the reactor was filled in with cement. We have launched tardigrades into the vacuum of space and they survived. In that sense, "aliens" as we might insofar understand them, exist here on Earth. Why shouldn't something similar have the potential to do so on Titan- given that the presence of liquid methane and ethane, along with an atmosphere, and abundant source of radiation (Jupiter), already exist?
Megaprojects, here are some video ideas:
1. The Psyche Mission. The Psyche mission is a NASA mission that's going to a uniquely metal rich asteroid named Psyche which is believed to be the core of a planet that failed to form.
2. The Euclid Space Telescope. The ESA launched Euclid to reach the sun earth L2 point to search for the presence of dark matter in the universe.
3. DAMA LIBRA and LUX ZEPLIN. DAMA LIBRA and LUX ZEPLIN are both dark matter detectors using loads of confusing technology in order to detect dark matter.
Pls consider covering these topics. :).
I love how Simon can go from wistful daydreaming "what-if" fantasy boy in one video, to dream-stomping hyper-logical "show-me-the-proof" fact boy in another
If humanity cared enough we could easily explore the entire solar system by now. But people's don't care enough it seems.
Also if humanity was devoted enough to figuring out what these "UAP's" are that seemingly defy our understanding of technology then we could also learn the truth, but humans JUST DON'T CARE.
tiktak or whatever is too important to people I guess. People are too concerned with dumb stuff to care about the big questions, and when presented with them they ignore them and come up with excuses.
No wonder aliens avoid us.
Definitely sounds AMAZING. A plane that drinks! It's usually the pilot :P
I do still love when Simon gets to geek out over space topics, and this one's a true gem.
Looks like a Handley Page Victor.
Wow they have allocated the amount that a single cruise missile costs to discovering life on another world.
Glad we've got our priorities straight!
Some missles can cost millions lol. Imagine if NASA got the same budget as the military we’d already have moon bases and colonies on mars
Imagine if they had the amount of money we've already given to Ukraine
Imagine if the budget ($100B+) of the California high speed railway which is still nowhere near operational went to much better areas of investment such as space exploration or interplanetary colonization, instead of, basically, this piece of bullhockey becoming a REAL LIFE episode of Simpsons where their entire town got scammed into buildin' what they called a monorail? Which is essentially the same exact thing lol at least the monorail came with a decent song and dance number, however...lol!
@@reallife3338Imagine all the possibilities and scientific discoveries in a world without bloodthirsty self-obsessed dictators...
Don't worry. Once the Chinese succeed in landing Taikonauts on the Moon, NASA will see it's budget increase 'rather quickly.'
And I hope I am still around to watch your always brilliant yet simple expositions of a very complex topics of potentially life-changing discoveries, in the true sense of the word. From a 60-year-old fan in Africa.
Twenty years, give or take a year or two?
TLC said it best "Stick to the rivers and lakes that you're used to."
1:26 craft of the future
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11:02 miracle machine
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If you were my history or science teacher in school I would've actually shown up for class 😂 love your videos, always interesting!
0:17 Simon should have a channel specifically for bedtime videos.
Except for BBlaze, which I love, he has a soothing tone. I admittedly boot up TH-cam to unwind as I’m getting ready for bed, but end up missing 1/2 his videos because I’ve lulled off.
I'm so excited! I did a project on titan in school
That's a big lake! Can't wait to go fishin' for some giant space trout!
(Alien Bass Pro Shop intensifies)
Good to know we'll have a plane when we get there next week.
Number one priority for marketing team. Change name
Indeed , not got a good history
But it's uncrashable
Lmao no
I came here to say this.
Number two priority, make sure it doesn't come with Logitech controller!
The saddest part is, I'll already be dead before this Seaplane start flying around Titan.
Heey simon I absolutly love your videos and I was wondering if you could make a video on Pioneering spirit, it is the largest ship in the world thst is used for removing old oil rigs and so on, really amazing ship.
Thank you
You know what happens when samples on a far planet or moon undergo tests by a suite of instruments? They reach inconclusive results.
It looks like the "Victor" V Bomber the RAF used to use way back in the day. Interesting video, never see kitchen roll in the same way again.
Mega project idea for ya. The Minneapolis skyway.
The Minneapolis Skyway System is the largest contiguous system of enclosed, second-level bridges in the world-composed of 9.5 miles of pathways connecting 80 city blocks.
13:00 - H.P. Lovecraft did famously have some family tragedies that deeply affected him, but this notion of his watching any of them get eaten by sharks is a new one on me!
I'd be interested in an episode about the Dragonfly mission.
"Hyoogens"? Crivens. I was prepared to endure "mair", but seriously?
7:02
Simon: In fact there is a good argument that it's the most Earth like body in our solar system.
Earth: *stares in disbelief*
Megaprojects, here are some video ideas:
1. The Psyche Mission. The Psyche mission is a NASA mission that's going to a uniquely metal rich asteroid named Psyche which is believed to be the core of a planet that failed to form.
2. The Euclid Space Telescope. The ESA launched Euclid to reach the sun earth L2 point to search for the presence of dark matter in the universe.
3. DAMA LIBRA and LUX ZEPLIN. DAMA LIBRA and LUX ZEPLIN are both dark matter detectors using loads of confusing technology in order to detect dark matter.
Pls consider covering these topics. :)
Yup, Flight will be different depending on the planet you are on. While we can do plane flights at altitude on earth. We might need to look back at some of the stuff we tried out in the 50s and 60s for flight on other worlds. Like those soviet and USA ground effect vehicles might be better for some environments. Hover crafts that we kind of just gave up on cause of cost effectiveness might have better use on another planet etc.
This "Craft of the Future" TitanAir, bears an absolutely astonishing likeness to the Handley Page Victor Circa 1952... ;-)
Simon please please please never stop ♥️
great work as always....love thinking of the future, wish i could go back
That’s the answer we need !! More then any other
Titan’s atmosphere is 1.5 times denser (50%) than our own, not four times (400%).
6:15 To borrow a line: Because it's there.
Looks straight up like a V bomber
OooooOOOOOoooooOoooh, “_Science Chambers_”. How quaint.😂
Cool video! Thanks
I wonder how many times he's said "make no mistake" in these videos.
DRINKING GAME!
"ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE. USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE." - 2010: The Year we make Contact
This looks cool 😮
love hearing Simon say Mee Thane. Love you guys.
Looks a lot like a Handley Page Victor to me
1:01 It looks like an insanely cool project, and I know it’s named for the moon, but given the recent sub implosion, the name doesn’t evoke confidence and safety.
4:14 I thought “flying laker” was Magic’s moniker.
It looks a bit like a Victor bomber
Exactly what I came here to say! 👍
And me
Strange how the grant artist kinda drew a RAF Victor bomber with a V-tail....
14:50.. strictly Dragonfly is a vehicle with eight propellers, each of which has two blades (rather than being an 'eight-bladed rotorcraft'....) and it is the 4th in NASA's New Frontiers series of missions, which are smaller than 'flagships'. But it is indeed cool...as I describe in my AIAA book on Ingenuity and Dragonfly.
Tomato, tomatto. Potato, potatto. Let's call the whole thing off.
I read a paper a while ago regarding microbial life existing within liquid methane in storage tanks. Apparently they are what cause fuels to break down.
Finished watching it, 99.9% I love Megaprojects and I doubt it will ever run out of things to talk about!
Also I can relate to you mate, cos I'm a 31 year old baldy too! 😔
I think we need to retire the ‘titan’ moniker from being used to name anything to do with bodies of fluids
Unexpectedly powerful ending, that
Darn! I was just about to jump in the TARDIS and make a day trip to Titan!
00:05 - Vickers Victor cold war bomber Sci-Fi rendered. 👍😎
sooowww. Anyone considering what would happen if we lit that Methane? Maybe get some o-zone going. Warm the place up a bit. plant some trees. . .
This water collection system could change the cog and weight of each wing differ massively, surely this would cause issues
I would argue that Earth is the most Earth-like body in the solar system.
Wouldn't surprise me if dragonfly arrives at titan and the first shots show some basque fishermen already settled there
15:40 "Titan Submarine", where have I heard that before...
If NASA would put Halliburton in charge of the project they would fund it and figure a way to get the Methane back to Earth and still turn a profit
A uav blimp would seem like a better idea, especially considering the density of the atmosphere.
A blimp would be difficult, as Titan is so cold gases sit very low, plus the maneuverability aspect. Titan is made to get in nice and close.
This would be a great Science Fiction movie! 🤣😂
Who here thinks the picture of that proposed craft looks eerily similar to a Handley Page Victor (V-Bomber)?
@14:13 - use that energy for propulsion. Get on it engineers 💪💯- onon 🦶
Don't worry, Simon, there is enough video and voice for chat gpt to make your videos for a millenia. 😂
That's a Handley Page Victor, with added 'V' tail and the cockpit windscreen and intakes blanked out! 😂........ The irony, that the Victor had a sculpted lower fuselage, that made emergency 'ditching' on water effectively impossible, crew were told eject instead of attempt emergency landings over water... a comedic choice by the artist🤣
Makes you wonder what UAPs really are (or 'fictional' craft such as 'Ezekiel Spaceships').
What Simon has left out is another possibility. To the general public Mars may seem like the best place for a permanent non-earth settlement. However, to many in the scientific community, Titan is a far better choice for a permanent settlement.
Cold, distance from Earth, and less gravitate are huge negatives, but not needing a pressurized spacesuit or worrying as much about radiation from the sun are even larger positives. On Mars living underground is a certainty, on Titan, this wouldn't be necessary. NASA is interested in Titan because after Earth, long-term, it is the next most habitable body in our solar system.
Guy, I’ve got confirmation of alien life weeks ago 😂
In before corporate greed makes Titan+Human hybrids that threaten all life. XD
10:10 i knew it, he is an agent of Hydra
The aircraft already seems very impressive and then you realize it has to do all that without a pilot... on the moon... of another planet... without a maintenance crew... or even a single runway in its whole life. The more you think about this thing, the more you start to realize that it isn't impressive as a design feature. It's impressive as a necessity.
The tralfamodorians have been on Titan for decades
Titan sea monster.
Titan is one of the best objects of solar system, it's better than Mars but is much farther away
Wait, what about Bruce Willis at the end of Sixth Sense!?
For inflatable wings they could look to the old Goodyear "airmat" (inflatable planes). perhaps it could be fabricated of low temperature materials.
Perhaps they'll finally find the sirens of titan
Sam Worthington has been living on Titan for years now. Just ask him about anything you want to know about the Saturnian moon.
Is it me or does that artists impression look remarkably look like a Handley Page Victor?
Mind you the Victor does look like something out of Flash Gordon.
just a fart from my small brain, wouldn't Titan essentially be the equivalent of a balloon filled with gasoline waiting for a spark?
It'd also have to wait for an awful lot of oxygen. You can set off a spark in any combustible gas or vapour, but if there is nothing for it (gas or vapour) to react with, nothing will much happen.
0:37 "the colossal levels of methan and thick atmosphere, an atmosphere roughly four times denser than our own" ... at the moment 😂 dead cow burger, anyone? some milk to shove it down? yes?
This project was dreamt up in a cloud of crack smoke
Send a 2001 style rotating station to Saturns orbit with scientists and their families. Bring plenty of supplies. Call it JPL to go.
Looks like Simon found his gold (on his wrist) at the end of a Geneva, Switzerland rainbow.
1:30 - Chapter 1 - Craft of the future
2:40 - Mid roll ads
4:00 - Back to the video
6:20 - Chapter 2 - World of the gods
11:05 - Chapter 3 - Miracle machine
14:00 - Chapter 4 - Ballonatics
Anyone seen that ad where a lion hitched a ride on that family's car?
You get it?
Question, methane is very flammable. Wouldn't a spark start a major explosion?
I'm wondering why they didn't make the rotor drone capable of taking samples from the lakes and analyze them. Seems that would be easier due to the fact that it can hover. Why would they not just include that? I'm sure there's some logical or logistical reason why but it's not obvious.
Screw microbial life I want Thanos.
I wanted to mention Europe but then I remembered thats its seas are miles below its crust thr setting for a submarine horror game called barotruama
Damn, he says spoiler alert after the spoiler. Lol
Thanos is waiting
As one from the moon of Titan, welcome
This is the opersite of what we expect from factboy. Unproven supposition combined with vaporware projects sounds more like a Musk presentation.
Not gonna lie, I saw the words titan and lakes and my brain immediately read exploding instead of exploring.
A near Earth sized spheroid with seas of Hydrocarbons . The future gas station should humanity actually manage to not kill itself before Earth runs out of resources .
Can it fly over the ice wall.
Wouldn’t the paper towel plane also filter out the organic? i dont think titan submarine is a good idea, with what happened to the last titan sub
Hey Fact boy, Biographics and Geographics. Are we getting new videos or are they dead channels?
10:00 probably going to look a crab🦀
Meeth-Ane??English people must be smoking meeth! 😂
MEthane YOUthane WEthane!
Really hope it happens, but if it does it probably wouldnt be until the 50s or 60s hahaha