How Humanity Could Colonize Titan! (Saturn’s Moon)

How Humanity Could Colonize Titan! (Saturn’s Moon) NASA is sending probes to Titan which could be humanity's best chance at a hospitable planet in our galaxy! We're covering news, updates and more from NASA, let's dive into why Saturn's moon Titan could be the best option for human life.

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[TheSpaceRaceYT]

Could Titan be our best chance at a new human colony within our own solar system? Let us know what you think below!

[mortkebab]

Titan is uniquely suited to be a computing colocation centre. That is because the energy required for a switching operation, the fundamental unit of computing, goes down with temperature, and also because heat dissipation is an increasing problem the faster and more compact computer components get. Heat dissipation can be done in three ways: radiation, conduction and convection but normally, in space, you can only use radiation and conduction, while on Earth we mostly use convection in the form of fans. Titan's environment addresses all these issues by being very cold but also with a solid surface and an Earth-like atmospheric pressure that allows the building of unpressurized structures. Its atmosphere provides for convective cooling, in effect making the entire atmosphere a radiative heatsink coupled to interplanetary space. Humans can walk around there without a pressure suit, but only arctic clothing and a breathing mask. Indoors, they can live comfortably. The scenario of terraforming it for Earth-like use is a non-starter because it would be a useless ocean world.

[susananderson]

The difference between Icarus and a person who does the same thing on Titan, is Icarus used candle wax to keep his wings together. That's why he fell to his death when he tried because the wax melted mid-flight and he fell into the ocean and he drowned. We wouldn't have that problem on Titan. Seeing that it looks like twilight all day long.

[dongraham]

If the term "God Forsaken World" was ever meant for any world it was clearly meant for Titan and establishing a base on its surface would be very very difficult and horrendously dangerous. Titan has an atmosphere 1.15 times denser than earth and is composed of 98% nitrogen with the remaining 1.6% composed of mostly of methane (1.4%) and hydrogen (0.1–0.2%), there is very little oxygen if any .

Titan receives just 1% of the amount of sunlight Earth does so midday on Titan thru its very heavy cloud layer would be like 5 minutes after sun down on earth . The average surface temperature is about −179 °C, or −290 °F, at that temperature water vapor cannot stay in the atmosphere so any water on Titan will be frozen solid as an ice that is as hard as steel .

A very special space suit would have to be constructed with super insulating properties and high energy source for heating the space suit and wearer because of the enormous heat sink capability of an atmosphere that is 1.15 times denser than earths and sits at -290oF !
If man was to try to colonize Titan he would have to bring along a very powerful and extremely reliable energy source, a nuclear reactor powered generator would be the minimum . Probably at least 500kw per individual. Solar cells would be useless and the mind numbing cold would be absolutely relentless .

-179 degrees Celsius will cause most metals to shatter like glass if stressed. All the living quarters would have to have cryogenic bottle type insulation, how you would do that on a portable walled structure I have no idea. You could only build your base on solid rock . If you built on some kind of sediment there is a chance it is being held together with some form of ice (permafrost) and the heat of the base would very quickly cause you to sink into the mire . All oxygen and water would have to be obtained from the water ice that is assumed to be present on the surface .

But of course the main problem with Titan along with its awful surface temperature is its colossal distance from earth which on average is 1.5 Billion kilometers. Also although Titan has .85 the gravity of the moon, very low, it has a very deep and relatively thick atmosphere, even deeper than earths, at least 600 km and even extending out to 1000 km . With an orbital velocity of 1.84 km per second I would say attaining orbit from the surface of Titan even with the low gravity would be very difficult.

Especially when you have to attain an altitude of maybe 7-800 kilometers first without too high a velocity before you clear the atmosphere, which will prevent you from getting too heated by atmospheric compression .

Its not like the Moon where you can attain orbit at just 10 km above the surface because the Moon has no atmosphere.

[patrickbrett]

We could theoretically build a floating city of airships and using long hoses pump the Methane up to turn Titan into a giant Fuel Station for ships exploring or mining the Kyper Belt. While it would be tricky in the extreme the technology for this exists today and the first people to get fuel from Titan woud become Gozillionaires!

[candlestick]

Humans won't get there till I'd guess the 2070's, but it will be hype as fuck to see more of the gas giant moons. Casey Handmer in an interview made a great point about how we should be launching either Starship or a Falcon heavy literally every launch window for any planet and I really wish that idea would get more support. It's cool seeing all the robotics that get to go to Mars but it's lame that none of the other planets/moons get much attention.

[ThisIsSpaceJim]

Loved this video. I'm all for getting humans to Mars, but I'm far more excited about the prospect of exploring the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. NASA reckons Callisto would be an ideal human base camp, and Titan really is the motherlode. Plus, being able to operate robots in real-time on Enceladus - how cool would that be!

[hposnansky]

Titan's lower atmosphere has a surface pressure about 1/2 higher than on earth with a temperature of liquid methane near the triple point, as mentioned by the speaker.
due to the low gravity you can tow, walking, a flying trailer.
A spacecraft with four rotors to fly around is an active NASA project, called Dragonfly .

[Carlos-bbbm]

Love your channel, i really enjoyed this video, thank you!!

[ntm]

Great video (as usual for this channel), but you might want to work on your Celsius to Fahrenheit conversions.

[PeterC]

Dude. You are killin it. Keep bringin us the beautiful story-telling of the most exciting things to come and the most interesting topics. Kudos!

[Orion]

The only place we know for sure so far that has an atmospheric pressure within human tolerance outside of the Earth.

[haircafekevin]

Titan is the most promising colonization target. We wouldn't need to heat it up, we could easily create massive plastic domes using the resources there as both building materials and fuel. We wouldn't need to pressurize them either, just keep them warm.
We need to have faster propulsion methods though. Current technology takes 7 years to get to Titan.
We need to be able to cut that it half at least.

[jako_]

If you watch this video in 2023 and hear "titan sub" you think of something else than a NASA mission 😂😂

[WereMask]

Might be better to consider Dwarf planet Ceres for a colony. With water ice and ammonia. Breathable air with oxygen and nitrogen can be made. Nitrogen could be used for plants. Fuel could be mined from it's ices. Next to zero tilt, means it might be possible if solar panels are put up high enough on Ysolo mons it could also be used with RTG electricity. Artificial gravity habitats could be placed in it's surface. Might be able to stack some habs skycraned on the top of Ysolo mons.

[expecto]

8:19: North Face is a Wax Doll Uranus brand. It’s “Galatian”. It has the texture of crayons. Milky Way uses mostly cotton and wool and Saturn Neptune rubbery woodsy fabrics.

[td]

As fascinating as it all sounds, the thought of a leak developing turning my habitat into a bomb with the capability of blowing me into orbit kind of scares the crap out of me! A small pipe going into house's here on Earth blows one up every once in awhile whereas on Titan we would actually be inside that pipe, hmmm... I wonder what the atmosphere smells like on Titan.

[theprolific]

You forgot to mention that Titan was probably an individual planet that was captured by the gravity of Saturn and you should hypothesize what Titan would be if it was in its own orbit again. And what needs to happen to create a balance between hydrogen and oxygen so it's atmosphere is not explosive

[ender_slayer]

Honestly I think the only way we could ever hope to truly colonize not just our own system, but have even the slightest hope of moving beyond is to find some way to bypass the lightspeed barrier, whether that be the Alcubierre Drive, something similar, or something we haven't even considered yet.










Also I would be SO down to out on some Icarus wings and fly on Titan.

[Bearco.]

Really like the fact you explain in meters and feet.