What If You Swam in Titan's Lakes for 5 Seconds?
Titan. The most majestic of Saturn's many moons. And the most promising for life too. It's got a beautiful view and liquid lakes on its surface. The only problem is those lakes of Titan aren't filled with water. They're filled with liquid methane. Your mission is to take a 5-second dip in one of them. Are you up for the challenge?
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wtf
Lmao
@@lykke967622
That's just a STUPID content, let's be honest, it's not just about to have 7m subscribers, which most of them are just inactive human beings to allow you to post such stupid content, cmon guys
Man never got to the moon, as proven by SCINTILLAM DEI.
"Titan is one of the most hospitable places in the Universe..." At NEGATIVE TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY DEGREES FAHRENHEIT.
Given that 99.999999999999999+% of the universe is a harsh vacuum, that checks.
It's not that bad in real units
probably not that bad in UNITS OF MESAUREMENT that actually matter
Titan is one of the best candidates to support life within our solar system (other than earth obviously) but anything that would evolve in that kind of environment is not something I want to meet
REAL.
The visualizations are incredible this is exactly how all planet videos should be.
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:3
Yess
most of these animations are premade though (i'm talking about human animations)
@TF_ARCHIVES No, this is real footage.
6:09 "yeah its cold bruv but we can still chill in liquid form" 😭😭😭
Long story short, you freeze. Just saved you 8.5 minutes plus ads.
Thanks
Nice
😂
I’m thinking the Titanoboa will show up and eat you.
Well Titan is a candiate to host life, not sure I want to how that could have evolved!
@@WhatIfScienceShowlol
@@WhatIfScienceShowwhat if we reached ai singularity 😮
@@WhatIfScienceShow what if you had visited india ? please visit india and make video on this topic. im sure you would love india
Well that titanoboa would get some serious indigestion if it tried to eat us. It would be the equivalent of us eating something straight out of the oven at 400+ degrees. It would get some serious burns if it tried to eat us before we died and cooled off.
I'm still amazed how it takes 7 years to Titan.
It takes 4 days to get to the Moon and the Moon is ridiculously close to Earth by astronomical standards.
This is depending on the technology we only know so far working. What this video uses is your standard modern tech not future technology like Einstein-Rosen bridge or warp drive.
@@rogueascendant6611It would still take sunlight from the Sun over an HOUR to get to Saturn.
Them mfs said it would take 15 years to get to Mars, I don't think I believe them anymore. 🙄
Yeah, so what’s the point? And the surface is so deadly. Why bother?
Mental note to self - 'When I visit Titan, remember not to swim in the lakes.'
more like "if i visit titan"
I love the possibilities and consequences of exploring our universe in these videos. Keep them coming
The amount of effort you guys put in these video's is praiseworthy.
it was a bit cringe tbh
really@@PhonkAttack4DX
Videos *
but sh!t voiceovers
i love it, more solar system what if please!
After seven years in zero gravity traveling to Titan, you would not be moving very well at all in any amount of gravity.
Actually yes, that's a big truth
An Earther in Titan would feel akin to what a Kryptonian feels on Earth. All of a sudden you'd feel way stronger and could even jump so high that would be like flying.
Astronaut dies Narrator: The Mission was a success! 😂
Let’s give shoutout to the cameramen and the rest of the crews that flew to titan, tested it out for us, and give us all these footage. Really, we can’t thank you enough. Wow 1k likes, thanks everyone. I know this joke is ancient, but it still kickin 😎 Also scientist loves to just assume things on their own, we can also have a little simple joke ourselves.
This same old tired comment. Please stop
HA HA HA HA This same old tired reply! @@RC-ie5ru
Evergreen comment
@@RC-ie5ru Honestly, while I do agree I've seen it a ton of times, i still laugh at it. so maybe I'm just broken but it never gets old for me. 🤣
They sacrificed their lives for us.
I have been fascinated by Titan for many, many years. I always call it the "second most interesting place in the solar system". I can't understand why missions to Titan aren't a much higher priority for space research than they currently are.
Because there's nothing for us there lol. It'd be cool, but a HUGE waste of resources. We have a hard enough time just getting to the moon.
I was NOT talking about MANNED missions. On that I point I am totally in agreement with you. I am talking about the kind of remote and automated probes which are becoming increasingly cheap and more capable every year. Also I am talking about priorities within the space research budget that already exists, so it may not need to cost more than is already scheduled to be spent. My point as a scientist is that science has a lot more to learn from a study of Titan than from most of the other bodies which are getting higher priorities. @@Hugs_4_Bugs_
the first mission to the surface is already underway i believe. sometime in the 2030’s it’ll land. i could be wrong and mixing up dates but that’s something i heard about
Great! Glad to hear about it.@@sighbers3x476
@@sighbers3x476 ye Dragonfly - but i don't think it launches until the 2030s and will take about 6 years to get there.
The amount of imagination you guys have is insane, nice
Riiiiiiiight! ❤🥰
I am a simpleton with an infantile mind and the attention span of a toddler, my unreasonable meager intellect fails to understand how a dildo lands vertically without falling over. They failed to explain that.
Shrooms, dude, like a lot!
@@nicoleraheem1195 All wise we do not live on a GLOBE time to wake up you idiots
What are you talking about?
That intro just sent my coffee back into the mug. 🤣🤣 "Titan..." *Astronaut flops over the surface* "The most MAJESTIC..." got me.
Space is unimaginably amazing though I haven't been there. But all the videos just make it curious to experience
everybody has been into space. we just don't realize it. Earth is actually in Space.
@@w.naschi1618 you got a point there, but that's only logical
Irl space is way more empty and boring like it looks on KZhead vids
@@weedmon6830 I understand dear but not everyone sees the world the way you do. Some of us are just like " if it's there then we must go there"
@@cheleviticus8255 it will just not happen during the next few Generations.
You would NOT float. You would go straight to the bottom. It would be immensely difficult to swim back up, even in the lower gravity.
Density of the subcooled hydrocarbon mixture would be around 0.7 g/ml. A neutrally buoyant suit doesn't seem *too* farfetched.
@@lukekambic3536 The density of the human-suit system will be about 1.15 g/cm3, so the human would rather sink.
@@januszkobaka8518 Seems that would depend to a large extent on the amount of air space in the particular suit system.
you're such nerds, I like it
@@januszkobaka8518 you know, even human themselves don't have that density - average is 985 kg / m^3 (water is approx 1000 kg/ m^3) accounting lung volume. WHy humans don't float usually? - they get squished by water pressure, their lungs get flooded. Heavy insulated suit will have so much of empty space it may haveneutral boyancy in methane at titan's atmosphere pressure (1.5 bar - one and half more thanEarth) - 820 kg/ m^3. But they will not float planking like that.. more like in upright position because pressure would compress softer parts of suit, leaving chest and rigid helm above.
This video reminded me of the educational videos of the 80's and 90's. You guys are awesome!❤
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Hats off for these 2 heroes who spent 7 years of their lives to travel to titan and make this video for us to watch
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@@AravindVimal-zv8kt no.... not in any f life
@@BEAST_LEGEND1430and overused
Hats off to the heroes who thumbed down this overused joke.
Bro no heros landed there 😅 nasa only used unmanned landar
imagine spending 14 years for a visit and back. You forgot how gravity felt 😂
Perhaps a different kind of lifeform would find Titan's living conditions suitable. Makes me wonder how old some of the planets and moons are and if they ever contained life. If they had been deserted for eons, there certainly could be remnants buried beneath the surface that we don't know about.
that's actually a really good idea
imagine space archaeology. just the idea of having structures even on the surface of other planets (that are withered of course) and underground structures and fossils
I've found the wacky nerd part of KZhead
saame help!!! i am never leaving i swear 😂😂
Except that it would be impossible to float on Titan's methane and ethane lakes, ponds, streams, and rivers due to its much lower density. You would immediately sink to the very bottom.
Secondly, at such low temperatures, oxygen would not react with methane in that way.
On the other hand a breathable oxy/nitrogen mix inside a balloon at room temperature is a lift gas in the Titan atmosphere.
Except that Titan's gravity compensates for the lack of density. Which means that you would float. But that's nor here or there. Because after 5 seconds you'll be dead anyways.
anything can be made to float! Steel is denser than water but shape it the right way and it can be made to float. What matters is the buoyant force acting on the object sitting at the fluids surface and the buoyant force depends on the density of the fluid, acceleration due to titan's gravity and the submerged volume! If the force of gravity is less than or equal to the buoyant force then there is no way the object can sink!
You would feel about 10% of the buoyancy of water, so quickly sink to the bottom. Not a nice way to go.
The cameraman is a hero
Ugh
Loved Titan, visited last year and felt like I was in home. Love you Titan from earth.
This is probably the coolest episode I've seen on this channel. I like this format.
More proof that the cameraman always survives. He went to Titan for Pete's sake!
Love this!!!! Keep up the good work guys!😊
What a great video. Just discovered y'all. This was fun to watch. New subscriber here. 😊❤
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2:15 Titan is not covered in lakes, the lakes on Titan make up under 5% of the moons surface and infact the said lakes are located around its poles
How tf do you know... how tf do we know.
@@MikeHawkPEN15 Cassini-Huygens probe used infrared to investigate what's under thick murky atmosphere of Titan.
You left him behind dude, you actually left him behind
"I offered a choice, and they called me a Mad Man"
Space ship 🚀 caste a shadow on Saturn rings 😂
You put a lot of effort in to this video. Well done. Got my like.
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Very inaccurate video. First, the human body would not float in liquid methane, but would quickly drown. Methane has 66% the density of water. Secondly, at such low temperatures, oxygen would not react with methane.
Yep amazing work my friend
your good enjoyable time @@mehdi5738
I still think it would be awesome when we get to go to Titan. Still sucks that I would live long enough to be able to see that mission.✌
That wont ever happen though. the world along with human civilization will probably end by the time we are ever able to successfully migrate or even land there
Technically, we did get to Titan in 2005 with the Huygens probe, but yeah an astronaut mission would be interesting.
@@WhatIfScienceShow yeah I do know about that was pretty cool that was what started right interest in Titan. I'm talking about the man mission. I think one of the cool things about Titan is that the atmosphere supposedly is dense enough you could make a biodome technically out of Saran Wrap.
@@WhatIfScienceShow soon we will
Were too busy killing eachother over politics and religions while arguing over gender and mental illness.
The video looks super cool except for one thing. As far as I know, titan is not entirely covered in hydrocarbon lakes. The lakes are confined to the poles. So as long as you are not landing near the poles, one shouldn’t worry about their spacecraft getting submerged in methane.
Damn. That's a huge improvement in production quality especially the 3D. Unreal? Blender? Amazing work😁😁
The best thing about Titan the video doesn’t show is the moon’s subterranean liquid water ocean! You heard right. Titan has a subsurface water ocean larger than on earth! There could be life down there. 😊
if you jumped in the Lake of Titan, then... umm... you would likely die.
"I'm thirsty." "Refreshing!"
The floating effect is just like what happens when you walk into the Dead Sea in Israel. About the time you wade into the water about knee deep, your legs start to want to come out from under you and you easily float on the surface with much of your body exposed to the air.
Wow, you have adopted a new style of narration and it is super cool. Loved it
I think the narration is extremely over the top, full of very stupid jokes and it sounds like it is aimed at morons or small childs. Can't Americans just talk normal? Jeez....
Wouldn't the methane in the atmosphere ignite when it comes in contact with the exhaust of the descending spaceship? Or would the absence of oxygen ensure that doesn't happen?
Well I'm not a chemist, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't ignite without oxygen. Most fuels don't combust in the absence of O2. Perhaps some micro combustion would happen if there was any O2 in the exhaust that could react with methane in the atmosphere, but it would be really small amounts that would probably not even be visible to the eye. I read somewhere that acetylene could react with methane on Titan, but I don't think it naturally exists in significant amounts on the moon. So I don't think you have to worry about setting the atmosphere on fire; you'd probably have a really difficult time even starting a simple campfire on Titan.
That's what I was wondering
I'm sure it'll be fine.
I would be surprised if methane consuming bacteria, like the ones we find here on earth, hasn't already evolved there. Mother Nature/Universe usually has a way of keeping things in dynamic equilibrium..
Well the absence of oxygen certainly ensures there will not be any fires. So no fires. Explosions, not sure, but fires, definitely not.
Wow, it's so crazy how inhospitable other planets/moons are. Earth being the way it is, so precise and perfect for life, is vastly different compared to everything around us. We would die anywhere else in our solar system.
Definitely, but life could evolve in a way there that it could only survive on Titan and not on earth. For that life, earth might be very hostile
@@212roblox212 That's a good point.
@@212roblox212evolve from what?
so we shouldn't wreck this world as we don't have a backup planet.
@@mullingarmuppet oh for sure, but unfortunately there are also a lot of things that could happen outside our influence or control. Such as super volcano's, meteorites, sun flares, gamma ray burst for example. So I'm not against the idea of trying to have a backup planet such as mars. (In a couple hundred years)
8:05 "The only thing left is to return home" you missed one thing Chase
I can see the editing getting more advanced, nice
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What if Kaiju were real?
idk j
I would probably be friends with kong
@@Eric-Matthews_SAW2-SAW4 just don’t piss him off
@@Eric-Matthews_SAW2-SAW4Kong would caress you like you was a fragile blonde woman
The channel needs to do this
Liquid methane is nearly half the density of water. You would need a lot of gas in the space-suit to be able to float.
8.5 minutes for something that could have been done in 2 mins. Next channel.
Video is so good I would have watched for the entire 7 year trip to Titan.
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That was an incredibly creative and informative watch. Bravo. New sub here!
Inspired by this video to go land on Titan in Starfield. I hope Bethesda did their research and put lots of liguid methane lakes on the surface.
Glad someone caught the reference to touching strange cubes and time travel 🤣
I love your channel keep it up 😊
It's a bit feeling when you think of Saturn it feels closer than Titan, which is just a moon of the same planet.
Please don’t stop these videos 🙌🏾
The narrator sounds like someone you'd push in front of a train during peak hour....
Titan would not be as habitable, due to its freezing cold atmosphere.
Does water ice really become harder the colder it is? Also, liquid methane is not like liquid water. Would you really be able to float in your suit?
I don't think you would...Pretty sure you would just sink, liquid methane is about half as dense as water. Buoyancy would be a huge problem.
But you also have to factor in the 14% of Earth's gravity. You probably would float, tbh.
@@neilpeartspurplenose8739Doesn’t matter. The difference in gravity doesn’t change the difference in density of your suited body versus the liquid methane.
@@neilpeartspurplenose8739 The buoyancy would be about 10% of that in water, so you would quickly sink to the bottom.
1:35 IT'S CASTING A SHADOW ON THE RINGS, DEAR LORD HOW LARGE IS THAT SPACECRAFT?
Come for Titan-Science-Facts, stay for Chase's weirdly long and elaborate back-story.
Just being in a lake on earth is scary imagine In a different planet ! Just seems so damn scary 😂
Being in a lake is scary to you? Guess it depends on where the lake is
@@RC-ie5ru I meant more like big bodies of water lol I was in Alaska fishing couple weeks ago and just seeing the endless water is kinda creepy
@@RC-ie5ruman you don’t swim in big body lakes! Where I am from you could die or be food easily
@@Jojodabaker12You from Florida? Or Australia?
that would be awesome, not going to lie
4:48 gave me spider verse flashbacks 💀
Blud thinks he’s a protagonist
props to the cameraman spent 7 years to make this video success.
This channel feels like im watching a show continuously. Every vid i finish, i find to it a next episode. Its really addicting that im even watching it at 2 am 😭
New episode idea: What if you exposed your fingertip to the vacuum of outer space?
I think the surface of Titan is a lot more gloomy than shown in this video, due to thick cloud cover.
Wow you guys are getting so good!
Just imagine if Titan had any oxygen in its atmosphere you could theoretically light a match and ignite the entire planet into a firey hellscape.
On Earth, methane is a flammable gas, but Titan has no oxygen in its atmosphere that could support combustion.
@@CrimsonBlot Hence his comment about "if Titan had any oxygen"
@What_If please make a video on what would happen if we collect all the trash of the earth and send it in spacecraft to the sun for dumping? Would this be the best way to get rid of all the garbage? Btw, amazing video as always..🔥🔥
We can find another which can be least in cost... interested that approch. Mastering the recycling and stuff...
I believe they’ve already made one ☺️
Venus that is basically a furnace.
I think they already did. If not, I think Kurzgesagz made one. The consensus is that it would be a really bad idea. Not only because it could disrupt fusion processes in the sun, but because it would be energy cost prohibitive. We are moving so fast around the sun that it would take tremendous energy to slow anything down enough to hit the sun. We can't even make rockets with large enough fuel tanks to do this. Apparently, the best way is to take a long trip by flying to the outer reaches of the solar system then using a slingshot technique around one of the gas giants to overcome all the momentum, but this takes decades to do.
All garbage we make comes from earth so your basically throwing away earths resources if you shoot it to the sun. Best thing to do is make the garbage into something useful, convert it back to something nature can use, or organize it in a way where nature will take care of it.
Can't wait to hear about what happens..I'm guessing not good lol 🤣...your channel is fantastic by the way!
this "chase" segment is kinda cringe, ngl. i can feel the zoomer energy
nah that segment is what makes this video amazing, the visualization is great. maybe it's just the last part of voice over but overall its good 🤷🏻♀️
Yeah, wth was that? Took me right out of the whole video. Didn’t even finish it.
😂 I agree lmao
Okay grandpa
I love it! 😊
I appreciate this goofy skit.
THIS IS HONESTLY A GREAT CHANNEL! i love watching "the what if series"
Its AI generated fluff, trash.
If the atmosphere is 95/5 - Nitrogen/Methane, I'm now curious as to what the atmospheric pressure is. It would certainly have an impact on keeping the methane in liquid form.
Higher than Earth, but not so high as to hurt you.
1.5 bar. It's because low temperature, not just compound.
4:23 just like the speed how snowflakes fall gently from the sky! 😉
the jump happenes at 7:00 btw
You wouldn't see Saturn's rings from any its moons, as they're in the same equatorial plane, so are seen edge-on, not a tilt.
Except from Iapetus.
@@Razvan_N I knew there was one slightly off, but you get the point.
All the effort you and your crew put into them is amazing.
No, it is not! - Fire the voice actor for the astronaut and he should be banned from voice acting. - Don't ever let anyone talk like a video game character. - Can we just get to the point in these videos? Why do you waste time about "how we get to X place and what's it like on X place".... fudgers, the video's title is "What If You Swam in Titan's Lakes for 5 Seconds?"!!!
@@cashewnuttel9054its a joke 🤓
Pretty sure these "This effort is brilliant" comments are all bots dude. @@cashewnuttel9054 You also missed out the part where they grossly underestimated the scale of Saturn's rings.
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@@cashewnuttel9054so… you were hoping to watch a 5 second video about an astronaut swimming? 😂 it’s educational, so other things that would influence what happens to someone swimming on a lake on Titan should also be explained. I agree, it’s very video game-like, but I think that was a stylistic choice to bring in a larger, possibly younger audience that comes off a little awkward sometimes. They might even be using a game engine to create this judging by some of the shader and lighting FX.
7 years by myself??? Sounds like an introverts dream.
Titan only receives 1% the amount of sunlight that Earth receives! Maybe bring a flashlight??
Imagine if humans could breathe in space
While there are a lot of unrealistic depictions in the animations one of the most recurring ones is seeing Saturn's rings in the sky at a high angle. Titan's orbit is almost perfectly aligned with Saturn's equator so the rings would only appear nearly as a thin line. Most depictions of Titan's surface get this wrong.
Thanks for pointing that out, I stumble upon this and scrolled down the comments to see if someone would have noticed it. So annoying. Just like seeing a Starship going around the rings or landed on the surface. Just as ridiculous. 🙄
ahh so we can ACTUALLY spend 5 seconds in methane with THAT suit nice
Suit cracked. Methane reacted with oxygen in suit causing a fire. There you go, saved you 8 minutes.
Sometimes the planet's that are way bigger than Earth some of their moons are so small that is some of them might be smaller than earth's moon.
Sometimes i do wonder how much of all this info about planets in our solar system is actualy accurate.
@1:42 "titan is unique in many ways. For one, it's larger than our moon. It's even bigger than mercury. Has a thick atmosphere, has lakes, rivers. And as sweetener, it's the home of Thanos. And if you land on Titan, you just might be in time to catch his big fight with Stark & co"
You have completely ruined my Titan dream.
I love this channel ❤️💪🔥
Could you guys do a video about “what if you fell into a spill away”? I think it would be really interesting! I love love your videos so so much you guys are great! God bless!
What computer or software do you think they use
These Hollywood worthy visualizations are phenomenal really it makes the video hundred times more interesting to watch and we don't just have to imagine.
The temperature on Titan is in the range of -279F. Extremely cold! It is so cold there are lakes of liquid methane.
Cool video and Titan is very cool. It's too bad there isn't another earth like planet in our solar system. Apparently they're incredibly rare anywhere. Would have been neat though.
I've been there. It's not that bad. It's like going to the Grand Canyon, excepting it's a little cold. I didn't see Saturn. It was cloudy.
How did you not see Saturn on your way there, though? Or on the return trip?
7 years in spaceship to swim 5 seconds in a Methane filled lake? Sure why not? Sounds like a great final destination.
Lmao, Chase's introduction is like an intro to a new spiderman in ATSV
Good job in making great animation
If titan has only 14% of the gravity of the earth, the how it hold it's atmosphere together..?
Too far away from the sun. Almost no solar wind.
It also stays within Saturn's magnetic field, and never leaves it, so while it doesn't have it's own, it doesn't need one. Saturn's magnetic field is far more powerful than Earth's, more than enough to protect Titan's atmosphere from any solar wind that it may encounter.