Take a Trip to Titan!

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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[@kuronx]

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

[@danielculver2209]

Low standards never disappoint

[@greenmilklatte]

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

[@abiramegr9929]

Chris Cartwright agree 😊

[@zs1171]

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

[@SahnouneKhaled]

the coolest scishow presenter

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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

[@RyanMcLeanau]

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

[@ossian1977]

"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....)

[@palebluedot7435]

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

[@stevenmabee3232]

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

[@alexpaysen4478]

Me too

[@luizmatthew1019]

Or hope a method to immortality is found soon

[@r3d0c]

Deja vu, or just a lot of drugs?

[@christophera4277]

drugs

[@Tomyb15]

It was uploaded before

[@christophera4277]

Ciroluiro no shit sherlock

[@Tomyb15]

+christopher alistar then you should have replied that it was uploaded before you ass

[@AdolfHitlerMemeLord]

No need to swear

[@xserenity6475]

LOVE ur channel! Thanks!

[@DANGJOS]

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.

[@soumyajitmallik3854]

So glad I discovered this channel !!

[@will3346]

Thanos is from Titan

[@VortexBricks]

NO HES NOT

[@VortexBricks]

Zeus The Cade NO IT ISN’T YOU WEEB

[@Mr.Cheeseburger24]

Life could be closer than we thing! #LifeonTitan

[@fig1]

Very cool!

[@ayylmao2710]

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

[@VortexBricks]

ayy lmao idk

[@retak4110]

2:40 "LIFEEEEE"

[@ConnorEllisMusic]

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

[@magicalframe9441]

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

[@Doug5249]

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

[@karthikbalaji3739]

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

[@jbonemastaflash6852]

We should have a Titan rover

[@wynneyoung7057]

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

[@Fireheart318]

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!

[@channelVlogger]

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

[@thekornwulf]

Well, earth does have underground reservoirs as well

[@jasonroach826]

Recommended this in 2020, makes sense

[@GiratinaGX]

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

[@thepuncakian2024]

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]

+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]

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]

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

[@manfromnantucket9544]

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

[@notablegoat]

The Puncakian ...And?

[@rayhs1984]

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

[@VarskDarkness]

very earthlike for our solar system

[@beybladebaby]

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

[@SoumikAswad]

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

[@markbtw7987]

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

[@stevecarnegis4413]

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

[@LazerLord10]

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]

+LazerLord10 Not enough random hand movements

[@AifDaimon]

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

[@ynotbme48]

Send tardigrades up there since they can live anywhere lol.

[@Pedrov100]

"480km earth atmosphere" [citation needed]

[@terrablae2299]

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).

[@Aviftw]

Pretty flammabe moon that

[@howardtreesong4860]

This guy just sold me on going to Titan!

[@RufusShinraPower]

I was watching this video yesterday when it went private.

[@SpySappingMyKeyboard]

Titan is so damn cool.

[@Niom_Music]

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

[@LetsTakeWalk]

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.

[@chrstfr6834]

Take a shot every time he says "methane"

[@ian_g]

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

[@Max-vb6le]

yay space

[@Trigger_Man]

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

[@valken666]

NEVER flip a match on Titan!

[@jonasbertels861]

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

[@Micahlee_19]

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

[@feralcrafter7043]

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.

[@billygoatideas]

Why did you re-upload?

[@carollshelby500]

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

[@Lemonickous]

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...

[@kracker5342]

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

[@agentwashingtub9167]

What if you lit a match on Titan?

[@cOmAtOrAn]

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

[@lightsidemaster]

+cOmAtOrAn How boring, right?

[@SuperThunderBolt2]

Stefan Massyn Human skin is not flammable on normal instances.

[@SuperThunderBolt2]

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

[@robertmiller9023]

No oxygen so no boom

[@SuperThunderBolt2]

Titan isn't weird!

[@crackedemerald4930]

methane rain, methane rain

[@omfgwtfbbq90]

If the Huygens was landed in 2005, then why do we know so little in those ten years??

[@knockoffashenschannel3619]

Ganymede does have an atmosphere

[@alexpaysen4478]

Albeit, a very thin one

[@Badpvppaladin]

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

[@arbiterofreason2068]

For the record CALLISTO and GANYMEDE do have atmospheres CALLISTO made of carbon and GANYMEDE made of oxygen and sulphur.

[@IgnemFeram01]

+Arbiter Of Reason I think that they mean comparatively thick atmospheres. Ones that could theoretically support life as we know it.

[@arbiterofreason2068]

+IgnemFeram01 I know, it's just while the graphic was on the screen he said they have NO atmosphere and I don't want people getting confused by that :) no harm or offence intended and thank you for putting things into context for future readers of my comment.

[@FirstNameLastName-gu1mu]

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

[@macoseason5860]

I wonder how big the flame would be if you lit a match on titan having a methane atmosphere and all.

[@jonasbertels861]

+Maco Season There's no oxygen on Titan, so the methane wouldn't burn. :(

[@aviet8520]

You know what's funny? The probe landed on my birthdate...... Jan.14 2005

[@donkeydonk96]

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

[@MaoRatto]

Is it just me, but we should have a catagorey of moons being renamed to " Subplanets " to describe moons like Titan, life on a moon, or a moon acting more planet like than moon being rockey. but moon having activity and acts differently. Subplanet being above dwarf planet status.

[@BECAUSEICAN11100]

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

[@nooneinparticular9837]

wouldn´t it be awesome if we would send some of those bakterias to titan and this would kick off evolution?

[@charleslaleff7708]

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

[@j.k.1762]

he he he he said hard

[@jasonk.]

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

[@linkleisure]

Question . would water ice float on a methain lake ?

[@Sara3346]

Maybe....

[@1MysteryZ1967]

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

[@n_k_alanvideos4081]

What's a day on Titan

[@ollie8419]

I think it's 15.9 earth days (or one orbital period) as Titan is tidally locked with Saturn.

[@n_k_alanvideos4081]

Thanks

[@jordib.4683]

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

[@PeterOekvist]

Meth rain. Junkies have a home!

[@deronmurphy7199]

Maybe it is a dwarf planet

[@gavros9636]

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?

[@MrAppleSalad]

+D Wells not enough oxygen

[@davidcallinicos1976]

There's no oxygen so nothing would happen

[@DANGJOS]

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

[@connormoore3297]

I wait the day NASA lights a match on a mostly methane world

[@Sara3346]

No oxegen.

[@berniesanders4966]

Cows live on titan

[@samuelsann8219]

If someone ignite an rocket while in descend to land, could the whole atmosphere explode in fire? Making the real HELL. Dunno cause the lack of oxigen tho, melt some ice then?

[@kennys645]

cool

[@clambo7786]

that video was release yesterdy no ?

[@BunnyRaptor]

how many times did he say methane i wasn't paying attention

[@mikolajdubiel1384]

How about we release lots of oxygen to the atmosphere, then use fire to turn methane into CO2, then introduce plants?

[@markzorr1564]

Is there no other planet/moon in our solar system that has oxygen?

[@Tomyb15]

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]

Yeah, does look rather odd :/

[@Sara3346]

The image is false color most likley.

[@vazilin4ik]

Sooo , titan is basicly a fart cloud that turned, mostly , solid?

[@nilvameraz913]

Maybe Titans live in titan

[@goldenopportunity4544]

Titan and Triton rhymes

[@thestreetpanda938]

Wow thats a lot of methane!

[@LetsGetItKhan]

But as soon as a space ship/pod gets to Titan the fire would make the planet explode cuz of all the NH3

[@Infinite_Omniverse]

Hanji Zoe will be happy

[@frostaviate1993]

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

[@Bonfirelol]

Why don't we send a pod of bacteria in an attempt to start life on Titan?

[@dm_nimbus]

What does sunlight break down methane into?

[@drewprofessional742]

hello

[@LeonardGreenpaw]

ALIENS!!!!!!!!!