Take a Trip to Titan!

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  • Get your gasmasks ready because we’re taking a trip to Titan! Reid Reimers tells us all about the mysterious moon.
    Hosted by: Reid Reimers
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Komentáře • 345

  • @greenmilklatte
    @greenmilklatte Před 7 lety +52

    Reid is definitely my favourite SciShow host. He always just seems so excited to tell everyone stuff about space. It's awesome :')

    • @abiramegr9929
      @abiramegr9929 Před 6 lety

      Chris Cartwright agree 😊

    • @zs1171
      @zs1171 Před 3 lety +1

      So true. He looks very happy and ive never watched videos by thia channel before

  • @stevenwills4660
    @stevenwills4660 Před 8 lety +230

    It worked...my time machine worked!

  • @LordKingPotato
    @LordKingPotato Před 7 lety +38

    I hate speculation, just get there and do some research NASA. Titan is too fascinating to leave out, I hope in my life time we send a rover there!

    • @jeremysart
      @jeremysart Před 7 lety +4

      I share your sentiment! It's the most interesting place in the solar system.

    • @notaashandjagermain914
      @notaashandjagermain914 Před 5 lety +6

      If ur age is 40 and under I'm sure you will be around or if not at least for mars

    • @Jokoko2828
      @Jokoko2828 Před 4 lety

      Give them some actual money to work with first, none of the tech they'd need to get there is anywhere close to cheap.

    • @futuregmchess1561
      @futuregmchess1561 Před rokem

      The Dragonfly mission is launching in 2035

  • @kuronx
    @kuronx Před 8 lety +3

    "Someplace a little more friendly" -179 degrees, no oxygen

  • @DivinityOfBLaze
    @DivinityOfBLaze Před 8 lety +54

    Take a Trip to Titan! Again!

    • @Dranex11
      @Dranex11 Před 8 lety +13

      +DivinityOfBLaze ya lets get this attack on titan going

  • @SahnouneKhaled
    @SahnouneKhaled Před 8 lety +3

    the coolest scishow presenter

  • @RyanMcLeanau
    @RyanMcLeanau Před 8 lety +1

    This was an awesome episode. I love these dives into the different bodies in our solar system and what they are like. Keep up the great work guys

  • @xserenity6475
    @xserenity6475 Před 8 lety

    LOVE ur channel! Thanks!

  • @ossian1977
    @ossian1977 Před 8 lety

    "Flashback" (the sort of sequel to Another World) was a video-game mostly set on Titan. It did look a bit different (a giant jungle of mangroves and baobabs....)

  • @soumyajitmallik3854
    @soumyajitmallik3854 Před 8 lety +1

    So glad I discovered this channel !!

  • @palebluedot7435
    @palebluedot7435 Před 7 lety

    you know ive been watching you guys forever... i think its time i make a commitment
    sci show will you take my subscription

  • @daddypapi5926
    @daddypapi5926 Před 7 lety +42

    Send that bacteria that made oxygen to titan.

    • @rgbreeding
      @rgbreeding Před 6 lety +10

      so it can freeze to death?

    • @cogithefool4284
      @cogithefool4284 Před 6 lety +3

      Maybe we have to warm the moon.
      Nuke the polar with thermonuclear bomb. That oughta do it.

    • @droopsmoop
      @droopsmoop Před 5 lety +7

      @Lucas Silva yea just take off your suit youll get used to the cold and unbreatheable atmosphere

    • @robertmiller9023
      @robertmiller9023 Před 5 lety +1

      It would die

    • @ATMOSK1234
      @ATMOSK1234 Před 5 lety +3

      Why would a nuke increase it's temp? I mean it has a really thick atmosphere so any heat energy you dump into it should get distributed through convection but even the whole world stockpile isn't enough to heat the planet significantly. Although the whole planet is covered in flammable gasses so...

  • @DANGJOS
    @DANGJOS Před 3 lety

    1:10 To be more precise, the low gravity means that the rate the atmospheric pressure/density falls with height is much slower, so the atmosphere extends much further out than on Earth. Another way to think about it is that a much larger atmosphere (per square meter anyway) weighs less thanks to the lower gravity, so it can be a similar pressure to Earth while being more extensive.

  • @osaka248
    @osaka248 Před 8 lety

    I love this channel.

  • @fig1
    @fig1 Před 8 lety

    Very cool!

  • @Mr.Cheeseburger24
    @Mr.Cheeseburger24 Před 8 lety +1

    Life could be closer than we thing! #LifeonTitan

  • @retak4110
    @retak4110 Před 8 lety

    2:40 "LIFEEEEE"

  • @carollshelby500
    @carollshelby500 Před 8 lety

    Awesome video! please keep them coming, maybe you guys could do one about the Insight Rover launch coming up

  • @r3d0c
    @r3d0c Před 8 lety +110

    Deja vu, or just a lot of drugs?

  • @LightDhampire
    @LightDhampire Před 8 lety +2

    It's up again! (and not private!)

  • @stevenmabee3232
    @stevenmabee3232 Před 8 lety +11

    If reincarnation is a thing..i wanna be reborn when we colonize the solar system

  • @karthikbalaji3739
    @karthikbalaji3739 Před 8 lety

    I clicked this episode and was about to shout HANK! When this guy came around...

  • @ConnorEllisMusic
    @ConnorEllisMusic Před 8 lety

    How is this a re-upload? I've never seen this video and I've watched every video for at least a year

  • @magicalframe9441
    @magicalframe9441 Před 8 lety +1

    I want to imagine that there is a giant robot in the Center of Titan, controlling all of the odd functions

  • @will3346
    @will3346 Před 8 lety +30

    Thanos is from Titan

  • @jasonroach826
    @jasonroach826 Před 3 lety

    Recommended this in 2020, makes sense

  • @beybladebaby
    @beybladebaby Před 8 lety

    To Ganymede and Titan, yes sir I've been around!

  • @Aviftw
    @Aviftw Před 7 lety

    Pretty flammabe moon that

  • @Aviator27J
    @Aviator27J Před 8 lety

    In college I wrote my planetary astrophysics paper on Titan. It's quite an interesting world and the landscape is very interesting!

  • @Fireheart318
    @Fireheart318 Před 8 lety

    Titan is my favorite celestial body other than Earth and the Sun (because life). You can double jump an fly using a pair of homemade wings!

  • @EugeneKhutoryansky
    @EugeneKhutoryansky Před 8 lety

    Titan is in the title of lots and lots of different movies.

  • @jbonemastaflash6852
    @jbonemastaflash6852 Před 8 lety +1

    We should have a Titan rover

  • @VarskDarkness
    @VarskDarkness Před 8 lety +1

    very earthlike for our solar system

  • @RufusShinraPower
    @RufusShinraPower Před 8 lety

    I was watching this video yesterday when it went private.

  • @howardtreesong4860
    @howardtreesong4860 Před 8 lety

    This guy just sold me on going to Titan!

  • @Niom_Music
    @Niom_Music Před 8 lety +1

    I think it's just alien snoop dogg blazin it down there :P

  • @YounesLayachi
    @YounesLayachi Před 6 lety

    welp... Titan is just a baby gaseous planet, a baby Saturn ! there, mystery lifted

  • @SpySappingMyKeyboard
    @SpySappingMyKeyboard Před 8 lety

    Titan is so damn cool.

  • @EnragedSephiroth
    @EnragedSephiroth Před 8 lety

    When I hear about Titan, all I think about is Gattaca.

  • @ynotbme48
    @ynotbme48 Před 5 lety

    Send tardigrades up there since they can live anywhere lol.

  • @ethanwagner6418
    @ethanwagner6418 Před 8 lety +1

    This sounds like the Unggoy home world of Balaho.

  • @Badpvppaladin
    @Badpvppaladin Před 8 lety

    thought i already saw this, is this the will of the steins gate?

  • @SoumikAswad
    @SoumikAswad Před 8 lety

    A space body's temperature is not always determined by the distance from the sun. more so by its atmosphere

  • @markbtw7987
    @markbtw7987 Před 8 lety

    I can't shake the notion that I've seen this.

  • @DysnomiaFilms
    @DysnomiaFilms Před 8 lety

    Maybe a comet or some other fast moving body skimmed through Saturn long ago fast enough that it pulled a lot of gas out with it before settling in an orbit around Saturn, and then smaller particles and rocky bodies were pulled in around it, eventually coalescing into the moon we know as Titan, with all that gas trapped inside.

  • @LetsTakeWalk
    @LetsTakeWalk Před 8 lety

    I followed the landing of the Huygens probe live on the internet back in the day, up to the first picture. Hope the next one I follow live is a human Mars landing.

  • @rayhs1984
    @rayhs1984 Před 8 lety

    Tried to watch this when I was sober, now that it is public I am too drunk to understand it. better luck tomorrow I guess

  • @flubadubdubthegreat1272
    @flubadubdubthegreat1272 Před 7 lety +1

    The ad at the start of the video was by Prager U where some old guy claimed that the ten commandments ended slavery and are the basis of western civilisation.

    • @sujimtangerines
      @sujimtangerines Před 5 lety

      Very grateful I didn't get that ad, although I could have used a good laugh.

  • @ayylmao2710
    @ayylmao2710 Před 8 lety +6

    is it possible to freeze a fart? i want to throw a frozen fart brick at someone.

  • @wynneyoung7057
    @wynneyoung7057 Před 6 lety +1

    The reason the methane on Titan is not getting destroyed is because saturns magnetosphere protects Titan from solar radiation, and since Titan is a lot further from the sun, there is already less solar radiation

  • @channelVlogger
    @channelVlogger Před 7 lety +4

    Yeah, the more moons allegedly have underground oceans, the less I'm buying the theory.

    • @thekornwulf
      @thekornwulf Před 6 lety +4

      Well, earth does have underground reservoirs as well

  • @stevecarnegis4413
    @stevecarnegis4413 Před 8 lety

    I have to brag on my great uncle who helped design Voyager I's radar

  • @panichappy9785
    @panichappy9785 Před 8 lety

    Seems like the conclusion for most moons with any kind of ice on them is that they have some kind of liquid ocean underneath. Too a layman, this seems a bit suspect, considering the big deal made out of Europa's under-crust ocean.

  • @thomasboys7216
    @thomasboys7216 Před 7 lety

    I really want to send a probe there and take billions of photos and measurements. It sounds like a fascinating place.

  • @Max-vb6le
    @Max-vb6le Před 8 lety

    yay space

  • @lawrencehouia1035
    @lawrencehouia1035 Před 5 lety

    Aslo titans such an awesome name to give to a moon

  • @CorkerGaming
    @CorkerGaming Před 8 lety +15

    Re-Upload?

  • @charleslaleff7708
    @charleslaleff7708 Před 8 lety

    is it possible that titan has a denser core, or the gasses on titan are heavier. thus allowing more gas to cling to its surface?
    intresting idea even if it's impossible

  • @Doug5249
    @Doug5249 Před 8 lety

    How to terraform Titan: first use a giant magnifying glass to warm up titans surface, then launch a bunch of cyanobacteria onto titans surface.

  • @FossilF
    @FossilF Před 8 lety +1

    Pretty sure I'm in the twilight zone. I think I watched this yesterday.

  • @billygoatideas
    @billygoatideas Před 8 lety +6

    Why did you re-upload?

  • @Lemonickous
    @Lemonickous Před 8 lety

    It was slightly confusing the atmosphere part of explanation because you were talking about how big and thick and dense it is, even though earth's gravity is greater, so its atmosphere should be denser. But we can see through the earth's atmosphere. The difference then must be the composition. So I feel that's when you should have mentioned the methane...

  • @kennys645
    @kennys645 Před 8 lety

    cool

  • @clambo7786
    @clambo7786 Před 8 lety

    that video was release yesterdy no ?

  • @thepuncakian2024
    @thepuncakian2024 Před 8 lety +2

    it's like with every moon in the solar system, "because this moon is tidally locked, it's insides move creating friction which might mean there's a liquid ocean"

    • @T--xo2uq
      @T--xo2uq Před 8 lety

      +The Puncakian
      when a moon is spinning and orbiting a planet, the planet warms up the moon. but when the planet turns rotational energy into thermal energy, it loses rotational speed. so a tidally locked planet has already fulfilled it's heating potential and cannot be heated further by tides. that is why most moons don't get tidal heating, because thay are tidally locked already, such as our moon. titan and europa are unique because they are *NOT* tidally locked to their parent bodies.

    • @thepuncakian2024
      @thepuncakian2024 Před 8 lety

      Nuclearsheep 53 In the video, I thought they said they were tidally locked. But in think what I meant to say was that they were tidally heated.

    • @T--xo2uq
      @T--xo2uq Před 8 lety

      +The Puncakian
      i understand. your grammar is a little hard to understand though.

    • @manfromnantucket9544
      @manfromnantucket9544 Před 7 lety

      Our moon is tidally locked. Going to book a scuba diving trip there soon.

    • @notablegoat
      @notablegoat Před 6 lety

      The Puncakian ...And?

  • @jordib.4683
    @jordib.4683 Před 8 lety

    Isn't the Hyugens lander not transmitting anymore for years?

  •  Před 8 lety

    Have you made or can you make more videos about enceladus and europa. I think they are the most earthlike objects in the solar system

  • @jasonk.
    @jasonk. Před 7 lety

    *WHY* the pointer of ' _Ocean under Titan's surface_ ' is point towards the core?

  • @GiratinaGX
    @GiratinaGX Před 7 lety

    Let's play a drinking game! Every time he says Methane, take a shot. Every time he says Titan, take 3 shots!

  • @ian_g
    @ian_g Před 8 lety

    What did I tell you?!?! 88 miles per hour!!!

  • @Tomyb15
    @Tomyb15 Před 8 lety

    3:24 is that graphic right? because it seems the ocean is the blue layer, which is beneath a thin white layer which could be the ice layer you were talking about. The center looks like a rocky core rather than an ocean. I'm pretty sure that's how I've seen it before.

    • @ollie8419
      @ollie8419 Před 8 lety

      Yeah, does look rather odd :/

    • @Sara3346
      @Sara3346 Před 7 lety

      The image is false color most likley.

  • @MicahAndersenNeverStopWriting

    Has anyone else seen the TV show Eureka??? Because I have and that's why this title nearly made me jump out of my skin

  • @SuperThunderBolt2
    @SuperThunderBolt2 Před 6 lety

    Titan isn't weird!

  • @isaacquan4356
    @isaacquan4356 Před 8 lety

    Meanwhile in 2016..voyager 1 is slowly drifting into unknown and forgotten by some...

  • @DANGJOS
    @DANGJOS Před 3 lety

    @SciShow Space How are you defining the end of the atmosphere?

  • @chrstfr6834
    @chrstfr6834 Před 6 lety

    Take a shot every time he says "methane"

  • @asharastark6776
    @asharastark6776 Před 3 lety

    What I'm confused about is whether the Titan in Avengers Infinity War is the Titan from Sol system.
    The Guardian's ship should be able to do in system travel with little effort if it regularly travels between systems. So how come their fuel didn't get them to Earth? Is the MCU Titan in a different system? These are the answers I need.

  • @BECAUSEICAN11100
    @BECAUSEICAN11100 Před 8 lety

    Deja vu....
    Something just changed! Someone just changed the Matrix!

  • @AifDaimon
    @AifDaimon Před 7 lety +1

    Humans could THEORETICALLY fly on Titan.. Just need an oxygen supply attached to wingsuits

  • @donkeydonk96
    @donkeydonk96 Před 8 lety

    So if one were to light a match in Titan's atmosphere, would the moon set ablaze? probably need oxygen thought right?

  • @agentwashingtub9167
    @agentwashingtub9167 Před 8 lety +9

    What if you lit a match on Titan?

    • @cOmAtOrAn
      @cOmAtOrAn Před 8 lety +40

      +AgentWashingtub
      Not much would happen. Without copious amounts of oxygen, nothing is going to burn.

    • @lightsidemaster
      @lightsidemaster Před 8 lety +7

      +cOmAtOrAn How boring, right?

    • @SuperThunderBolt2
      @SuperThunderBolt2 Před 6 lety

      Stefan Massyn
      Human skin is not flammable on normal instances.

    • @SuperThunderBolt2
      @SuperThunderBolt2 Před 6 lety +1

      You can't. There isn't enough oxygen for you to actually create flames. It would just spark and nothing else happens.

    • @robertmiller9023
      @robertmiller9023 Před 5 lety

      No oxygen so no boom

  • @Pedrov100
    @Pedrov100 Před 7 lety

    "480km earth atmosphere" [citation needed]

    • @terrablae2299
      @terrablae2299 Před 7 lety

      Pedro Villarreal you might think its wrong but by the sounds of it, he's excluding the Exosphere which every barren body including the moon has. i think he means primary atmosphere up to the Thermosphere (i think).

  • @1MysteryZ1967
    @1MysteryZ1967 Před 7 lety

    What about Titans magnetosphere? Wouldn't that be why the suns rays aren't desroying the methane?

  • @j.k.1762
    @j.k.1762 Před 8 lety

    he he he he said hard

  • @LazerLord10
    @LazerLord10 Před 8 lety +1

    This was re-uploaded because I think something got messed up in the upload yesterday, and they made it private as they fixed it for re-upload. I left my subscriptions open and clicked on this and it said the video was private, so that's my guess.

    • @ilikemorestuff
      @ilikemorestuff Před 8 lety +1

      +LazerLord10 Not enough random hand movements

  • @FirstNameLastName-gu1mu

    I bet some tall alien will go wtf when they see the huygens probe.

  • @thatonepersonnamed567
    @thatonepersonnamed567 Před 8 lety

    why was this video removed yesterday? did you guys accidently release the video?

  • @smittyjohnson9554
    @smittyjohnson9554 Před 5 lety

    It'll be cool when future Martians colonize Titan so they too can colonize a new world like their ancestors from the 21st century colonized Mars.

  • @nina5529
    @nina5529 Před 8 lety

    Maybe we can find info about titan in the basement

  • @feralcrafter7043
    @feralcrafter7043 Před 8 lety

    So it's a re-upload, but ..
    Did any one mention that methane is a by product of biological compounds breaking down by bacteria? When you spectral graph (a way of reading the exact wave lengths of light) the light that passes through an atmosphere you can pick out methane as one of them, which means there is biological life there. Therefore, the real question is "who farted"
    This applies to any planet which passes between us and another sun no matter how far away. The means if it's carbon based life form, we can see which planets actually have life at many light years away. As for intelligent life, we still are looking for that here on Earth.

  • @linkleisure
    @linkleisure Před 7 lety +1

    Question . would water ice float on a methain lake ?

  • @Trigger_GG
    @Trigger_GG Před 6 lety

    Maybe titan is a planet that used to orbit the sun but got pulled by saturn's gravity.

  • @gavros9636
    @gavros9636 Před 8 lety +1

    Just a thought, what would happen if you tried to light a match on titan? Would the entire atmosphere go up in flames, or is there not enough oxygen to support cumbustion?

  • @kracker5342
    @kracker5342 Před 8 lety

    We had to pick a place in our solar system for our project everyone picked planets but me and The smartest kid picked Titan :D

  • @Namonstar
    @Namonstar Před 7 lety

    sooooo. are you saying that there is a possibility that there is life (even in bacteria form) on titan?

  • @BoiseLib
    @BoiseLib Před 8 lety

    At a minimum I would expect at least one staffer to look at the Wiki page for the upcoming subject.
    Titan's atmosphere was postulated in 1903 and confirmed in 1944.
    I miss Hank, this guy's an ass hat.

  • @pzever
    @pzever Před 8 lety

    how thick is Titan's atmosphere compared to Earth's, Mars' and Venus'?

  • @valken666
    @valken666 Před 8 lety

    NEVER flip a match on Titan!

    • @jonasbertels861
      @jonasbertels861 Před 8 lety

      +Valken Actually, you're fine to do so, because there's no oxygen to react with the methane.

  • @thefourwafflelords1639
    @thefourwafflelords1639 Před 7 lety +1

    Titan= best moon

  • @frostaviate1993
    @frostaviate1993 Před 6 lety

    What if you light a lighter on titan
    (Somehow without oxygen) would titan explode?