One cool fact about titan is that its thick atmosphere and weak gravity suggests that if you were to strap a pair of wings to your arms and flap them you could fly with no more effort than walking.
@@AR_STUDlOS Titan's gravity is 7 times smaller as earth, meaning you weigh about 7 times less on Titan. To lift someone who weighs 80 KG on earth, you need 80 KG of force(also on earth). Lift is not dependend on your mass, but your weight. On titan, that same person who weighs 80 KG, now weighs 11 KG, and you only need 11 KG of force to generate lift. Then all you need to get is (Density of the atmosphere*velocity of the object squared*wing area of the object*liftcoefficient)/2 to match the 11 KG of force needed. So as you can see of the equation, high velocity does make it possible for human flight, just go fast enough and you can soar through the sky. However, that velocity needs to be quite high to achieve flight on earth as the air density is tiny. On Titan? The air density is 1600 times larger than on earth. (note, pressure and density are seperate, the density is much higher, while the pressure is only 1.6 times as large) Filling out the equation assuming velocity is average walking speed and adding 3 or 5 for lift coefficient(when humans are standing its 3, its 5 when sitting, once in flight, the lift coefficient jumps to 44). So lets use 3 to require the biggest possible wings, and we reach: roughly 150cm squared if I used the right SI units for. Which means you can create slightly bigger set wings and just flap your arms. Once in the air, you barely need to flap to maintain lift as your lift coefficient goest from 3 to 44, and that's assuming you'll fly at 5 meters per second Anyone can correct me on my mistake if I did make one, but assuming I used the right lift coefficient and the right SI units, it's really easy for humans to maintain flight on Titan.
Ran the simulation with Titan as the moon / binary planet of Mars, the temperature stabilized & the rate of dissipation leveled off. If you attempt what I've just recommended, be sure to adjust the orbital distance to be equivalent to the differential of mass vs. the distance of our moon from the earth, as the size & mass must balance out. Or I can send the config file. Cheers.
And now imagine someone of the life forms on Titan watch an internet video about how there could be liquid water on Earth, detecting strange reactions of probably water-based life, being like "Water based life breathing oxygen? That sounds incredible!"
Well, they don't seem to have sent probes to us, so maybe detecting faraway signals is all they can get. The city lights could also fall under "signals". Could be reflections, phosphoric stuff or fluorescent plants like in Avatar (which would also itself alone be life, but still...).
That’s a good idea. And, since the water would evaporate due to a lack of atmosphere and magnetosphere, the water vapor could accumulate into an larger atmosphere around a larger moon like europa. Though, Europa has a tiny atmosphere already
What if our Solar system would be significantly closer to the center of our Milky Way, and other stars would fly by because of higher density of stars?
although there would be more star density, I doubt anything dramatic would change. I think all we'd see would be many, many more stars in the sky. the stars may look very close together but they in fact are still very far away from each other even near the core of our galaxy. i don't even think their gravitational effects would be very noticeable due to the distance and speed they are moving
Titan is such an interesting place - looking forward to the Dragonfly mission to Titan, that will involve a lander that is able to fly in the atmosphere. The chemistry in that environment is worth studying. The landing date for that mission is in 2034.
I wonder if Titan in the game has specific parameters that doesn’t allow the water to stay. What if you used a random world with the same atmospheric properties?
And if Titan was orbiting Earth, and since it's made of some sort of ice or not, the ice would melt and make methane oceans. sooooo maybe it's not such a great idea to make Titan our 2nd home.
s SurfaceA lack of crater impacts on Titan indicates a surface which has been modified by flowing liquids. Standing lakes of liquid methane exist on the surface as well as dry river valleys. There is also evidence for cryovolcanism, where instead of spewing molten rock, volcanoes erupt with water and ammonia.Titan's TemperatureThe average temperature on Titan's surface is -179C (-290F).Titan's AtmosphereTitan has an extremely thick atmosphere and like Earth it consists mainly of nitrogen, 95% in the case of Titan compared to 78% on Earth. The remaining 5% is made up of methane (3%) and hydrogen (2%).
It wont be able to keep atmosphere if its earths moon. Itll be much closer to sun and no saturns magnetosphere to protect it Also the game doesnt simulate its liquid hydrocarbons evaporating and thickening its atmosphere, as pressure is shown to be unchanging at 1.6 bars
weirdalfan1980 yeah, trying to terraform any planet in US2 is just add water, atmosphere and place it in a habitable zone of a star and done. I heard that in the future US2 will have atmospheric compositions
When I saw that in shops I actually thought it was going to be about colonists on Titan declaring independence from Earth and getting attacked, or something.
The conditions of Titan with methane rain and lakes cannot exist in our orbit. At 100,000 kilometers from Earth, Titan would be within our magnetosphere, but the problem is that the temperature would cause the atmosphere of Titan to expand to 1-3000 kilometers, and the magnetosphere itself would draw some of the atmosphere away. The gravity is just too low. The rest of the atmosphere would escape simply by the velocity of particles in a gas which is the speed of sound. The gas for all intents and purposes would "Bounce" away from Titan. When that is done, it would expose the Ice surface which would then break down to hydrogen and oxygen and also "Bounce" away. cryovolcanism would accelerate this very much, and we would be stuck with a rock in orbit about the size of Ceres. This is why your simulation never results in a terraformable Titan. Regardless I love your videos.
Have you thought that the water may be evaporating because there is not enough gravity to hold onto it, even if you lessen, but not eliminate, the solar wind?
How about replacing Io with the Earth orbiting Jupiter and seeing the effects on the Earth ie tidal effects and would the Earth keep its atmosphere or would it become an iceball like Europa.
Well, This will happen. 1. If titan were to orbit close, Then its gravitational field might reach both Earth and Moon and pull the Moon towards titan, Coliding with it (Possibaly.) cause titans orbit to go haywire and hit earth. 2. Tidal forces would be high due to titan being large and another Moon 3. Saturn would loose 1 Moon on its moon count. 4. If titan is in a stable orbit, Doesn't cause the Moon to change orbit or anything, It could actually be able to have life on it. Which means, You can actually land on titan without a space suit (If it has enough Carbon Dioxide, Oxygen and Water.) and colonize it with the life there.
Ack! Moving Titan into Earth orbit would be a disaster. The Earth-Moon pairing already makes for a binary system. Add Titan and you'd have a real mess on your hands. The impact on the weather and tides alone would be catastrophic. You'd end up with a highly unstable trinary system that wouldn't last long. If the Moon and Titan were to trade places, you'd greatly alter the relationship between the Earth and moon, with unforeseeable, perhaps ruinous consequences. You have no idea what the consequences would be to Titan, either.
Could you make a video of 2 Super massive Black Holes a zillion times larger then the biggest known Super massive black hole and have them collide, think it would be pretty eventful, and cool to watch. Please make this video.
but another for that it will need a bigger iron in its core I think technology like Quantum technology that will take energy and converted into Master do it I think I'm not too sure you have to do the math about it even though I already have
Should do what I did give Venus a very powerful and large magnetic field and have Titan orbit Venus as it's moon. It works out well the methane evaporated and water formed I'd imagine we'd use the atmosphere of Venus and Titan to chemically make lots of water and what Carl Sagen said about using bacteria to lower Venuses atmosphere down to 3 bars, add a magnetic field warp Titan into orbit and bit of terraformming and tah dah Venus and Titan are terraformmed.
Well took alot of VR magic to do it but did do it after about 127 years in the simulation. Mars is funny because it has very low mass so I increased it by well destroying and harvesting planets most of dwarf planets Mercury and Pluto were destroyed and used to build on Mars increasing the mass and therefore gravity to about 0.892G almost 90% strength of Earth's gravity so can keep a atmosphere and had a satellite orbit between Mars and Earth making a magnetic field so to stop solar radiation stripping it's atmosphere. But Mars was made livable too.
@@hordegaming4771 i know that i may be 3 years late.But you could have just increased hydrogen a little bit and it would have already kept the water,mars and objects with less mass than 0.175 earths (i think atleast?) makes the water go poof UNLESS you add hydrogen
I know titan and earth are the "traditional" worlds with liquids on the surface, but if Venus has lakes of molten metals and acid, wouldn't that technically be lakes on the surface? therefore adding Venus to the group of worlds with liquids on the surface?
The thing is that Titan retained an atmosphere is because it is protected from the solar wind by Saturn's magnetic field.. Titan itself probably has a very weak mag field, not enough to deflect the solar radiation.. Had Titan been in place of the moon.. It would have lost its atmosphere ultimately.. And become barren..and although titan is larger than our moon, it's gravity is weaker.. again not a good thing in its ability to retain an atmosphere for long..
Ey Anton, I want to add some more information about how to create a magnetic field on a planet (minute 11:40 ) which is that recently a crew of scientist have discover that our telecommunications (I don't remember if it was at HF or VHF or UHF, can't remember now) actually are "stopping" some of the solar radiation at the same way the natural magnetic field does (but in a much short scale). So it could actually be a potencial way to make an artificial magnetic field on a planet. PD: sorry for my writing mistakes, I'm Spanish and my English skills are not as well as I would like, so please correct me if I've writing or expressing myself in a wrong way. There you have the complete article which explains this perfect, which is over 2 billion times better than me :D www.iflscience.com/space/there-is-a-man-made-barrier-surrounding-our-planet/ Thanks for your videos, you got my support :D
+CreamyGravy I mean that if titan would had been earth's satellite then it would be lot more habitable than mars & it would be so close to the earth ! There would have been much more missions to titan and maybe would have colonized it by now. But unfortunately we only have our moon which is not at all havitable
