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Good morning my RP Brothers and Sisters,
I found a great science video, which was published to YouTube a few days ago on Dec. 6, 2020 and it has already accrued some 189,852 views... It is all about Saturn's Moon Titan, which we landed a Huygens probe back some years ago...
It seems there's no other place in the universe with a dense atmosphere, mountains, sand dunes, plains, lakes, rivers and oceans except the planet Earth.
But it turns out there's actually a place much like the Earth in our solar system that has a complex weather cycle, landscapes carved by liquid, and volcanic activity.
It may even resemble the Earth in its earliest stages, and some scientists think it might be better to colonize it first instead of Mars.
"Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an icy world whose surface is completely obscured by a golden hazy atmosphere. Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system. Only Jupiter's moon Ganymede is larger, by just 2 percent. Titan is bigger than Earth's moon, and larger than even the planet Mercury."
Please watch Full Screen with sound up for the best presentation... This is a pretty fast paced video, so you must pay attention... LOL!
Enjoy!
Kerry
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I found a great science video, which was published to YouTube a few days ago on Dec. 6, 2020 and it has already accrued some 189,852 views... It is all about Saturn's Moon Titan, which we landed a Huygens probe back some years ago...
It seems there's no other place in the universe with a dense atmosphere, mountains, sand dunes, plains, lakes, rivers and oceans except the planet Earth.
But it turns out there's actually a place much like the Earth in our solar system that has a complex weather cycle, landscapes carved by liquid, and volcanic activity.
It may even resemble the Earth in its earliest stages, and some scientists think it might be better to colonize it first instead of Mars.
"Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an icy world whose surface is completely obscured by a golden hazy atmosphere. Titan is the second largest moon in our solar system. Only Jupiter's moon Ganymede is larger, by just 2 percent. Titan is bigger than Earth's moon, and larger than even the planet Mercury."
Please watch Full Screen with sound up for the best presentation... This is a pretty fast paced video, so you must pay attention... LOL!
Enjoy!
Kerry
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Extremely interesting, and possibly a better place to start other than Mars, the biggest question is die from heat, or die from being frozen, either way we have protective gear for either, hopefully we'll have the right answer by 2036, I doubt that I'll be around but I sure would like to know the answer.
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Thank you for your comments, Gunny...
Well, at my age, I know I won't be around to see it... -270 degrees seems to cold to support human life all in a space suite... At least on Mars, it has been shown over and over that the can employ a green house effect to raise the temperature of Mars and at some point have a breathable atmosphere... Food and plant life can be grown in green houses on planet Mars, but I seriously doubt that Titan could support that ever... But that's for the scientists to resolve...
Well, at my age, I know I won't be around to see it... -270 degrees seems to cold to support human life all in a space suite... At least on Mars, it has been shown over and over that the can employ a green house effect to raise the temperature of Mars and at some point have a breathable atmosphere... Food and plant life can be grown in green houses on planet Mars, but I seriously doubt that Titan could support that ever... But that's for the scientists to resolve...
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GySgt Thomas Vick
Your a long ways out in front of me on this subject, I just find very interesting, and have always been interested if there was something out there that would support our way of life and if there was any life forms out there.
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Not exactly a prime candidate for colonization, since it takes nine years to get there.
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Yep! I agree and one would have to survive that before setting up a communal life support system on Titan... I just don't think that it is the right planet for human life to flourish...
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Fascinating. A phrase used by the title character in the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. Hamlet suggests that human knowledge is limited: There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy [science].
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