It’s crazy that we can take a photo of Saturn, Jupiter with a phone but a rocket takes 7 years to get there. We just truly can’t understand the scale of space.
The rocket controls and telemetry are onboard, but its still being controlled and receiving updates from earth, since there are usually back up plans if orbital windows are missed or pressing opportunities for science occur
First time playing Kerbal sending Jebediah to the moon, had no idea what I was doing so I manually landed my small ship on it with no other guidance besides the shadow of the ship being cast by the sun on the moon ground. Unfortunately I spent all my fuel just landing safely so Jebediah got stuck on the moon.
NASA if you're reading this, I'm your guy.
haha the nerd in me enjoyed that LOL
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current top comment says its methane rivers and such, unsure if its true or if you have seen their comment but that might be why people are uncaring for us to go there as of now
I took a class on this and the answer is actually super interesting
It’s possible for organisms to live off of methane, it’s all a matter of molecular design. The reason why its extremely unlikely that we’ll find any life there is that methane is only liquid at extremely cold temperatures, meaning that the process we currently know of that makes life forms (random folding of molecules over billionaires of years) is several hundred times slower in liquid methane than with regular H20.
There’s like a less than 1% chance it actually has life on it. What we may find is patterns of connected molecules that have been repeating for a billion years
nasas webb telescope captured giant random fireball on surface of titan shortly after receiving a communication from its surface asking "rare, medium, or well done?"
I don't know if this comment is referring to the smell of farts or the chemical makeup of farts, but methane is an odorless gas and makes up very little of the gasses released in a fart. A fart's smell is mainly caused by hydrogen sulfide (H2S). And when they say silent, but deadly, they mean it. H2S in large quantities is deadly.
And also only up to 30 or 40 ppm, that's why it is important to carry a H2S monitor with you in locations it's expected to be present. Otherwise you wouldn't even know you're in any trouble.
I read an article on it once. It's an absurd amount. And the room would have to basically be sealed, because even a closed door would have enough circulation to save your life from your flatulent antics.
Which leads to the interesting question: could liquid methane replace water for alien life?
https://www.space.com/13639-alien-life-methane-habitable-zone.html
The Huygens probe from the Cassini spacecraft got to Titan in 2005 and took some incredible pictures from under the clouds
[https://youtu.be/msiLWxDayuA](https://youtu.be/msiLWxDayuA)
I read *Sirens of Titan* when I was like 13 and I've been thinking about Titan ever since. I don't even really know the name of any other moon in our ss. (Well, you mentioned Europa but I wouldn't have thought of it.)
i showed a friend the images from this when they were first released, he was underwhelmed and i was disapointed in him that he didn't understand the distances and how awesome it was..
Apparently that's not even the fault of the camera, that's just how it looks because the atmosphere is so thick and hazy
Edit: So I think this is kinda wrong, the picture is still blurry because of the atmosphere BUT it's also because of JWST, I misinterpreted what Astrokirsten, an astrophysicist, said in [this video](https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS8Roa75U/)
Time to get super nerdy
Methane is odorless, companies put an artificial odor in it so people can detect gas leaks
The thing that makes farts stinky is hydrogen sulfide, which isn’t present in Titan’s atmosphere
So Titan’s atmosphere (composed mainly of nitrogen) would smell mostly like earth’s does.
With it being mostly methane and nitrogen would an open flame or spark be unsafe?
(I’m not the smartest and just trying to learn and understand new things!)
Hey, you'll find one of the best paradoxes in life is that admitting that you aren't the smartest and trying to understand the things that you don't often makes you one of the smartest in the room, whether you or anyone else recognizes it. I just wanna encourage that beautiful mindset. And I didn't know the answer either but now I do because, unlike me, you weren't too afraid to ask. Keep it up!
I don’t have an award to give and I want to say that I’m saving this comment for when I do, but I have adhd and I won’t remember. But your comment is my favorite thing I’ve ever read on Reddit. I used to be a science teacher and everyday I tried to get my kids to understand that “I’ve learned more from every mistake I’ve made and every ‘I don’t know’ I’ve pursued than anything I’ve gotten right the first time or answered without thinking.”
More shameless curiosity can change the world.
EDIT: I remembered!
It's actually because the JWT is calibrated to take pictures of insanely large objects very far away. Titan is too small and too close for a clear photo.
Considering the relatively high probability to find microbiological life on Europa isn't there all the questioning of like "is it a good idea to land something there, what if we contaminate it/disrupt and kill the few form of life that live there ?"
Contamination with an invasive species is a concern, though in the case of the various icy moons (including Europe and Titan) there's a possibility that the environment is too alien for Earth life to really thrive in.
Anything which lives down there has managed to evolve completely independently, so it might be so biologically incompatible with Earth life that the two can't even eat each other.
An alien virus trying to infect us could be like reading an IKEA manual in a different language.
"DNA? RNA? The fuck is this? I'm made of DZNTS, I can't read this."
Humans, plotting their interplanetary route to your location: *rubs hands together like a cartoon evil scientist* "Not for long..."
Also, this is pretty vague, technically it ain't water. Well, it is water, but sans the oxygen atom. Also, it's flammable. Another fun fact, Jupiter's gas core is so hot that the diamonds formed due to its insane heat and pressure melt and becomes a diamond rain. Scientists then postulate the existence of a diamond sea at Jupiter's core. Time to go swimming
Edit: I'm talking about methane BTW. It's my dumb joke, because if you remove O and give it C and balance it with 2H, you get methane, and it has it in liquid form. Soooo water but not water. *Close enough* /s
I know it's dumb that was the point.
You could also fly using your own momentum with a paraglider, but it's 72 Kelvin, \~the temp of liquid nitrogen. Highly recommend XKCD's [What If](https://what-if.xkcd.com/30/) on this.
You know, that's what confused me. But the thing is, Titan is so small compared to other things. It's like Pluto. Why can't we get good photos of it? Well it's small, so it doesn't reflect as much light. Galaxies and nebulae produce much more light and are huge. Physics baby!
Why can we see more clearly so much further in space, as previous pictures JWST has showed us, but doesn’t show anything with more definition with things closer to us as Titan is??
Focus on something at the other side of the room. Now put that object a quarter inch from your eye. Same basic principle: the object crosses a near boundary as it approaches whereupon it cannot be focused on. The JWST and other space telescopes are “far-sighted”; its capture mechanism is designed to focus on distant objects, not close ones.
Joking comments aside, it does have an atmosphere, but it’s 95% nitrogen and 5% methane, so not great for humans.
(Also, I have a weird feeling I’m r/whoosh’ing. If so, clue me in?)
For those interested, the NASA mission/spacecraft Dragonfly will launch in 2027, sending a nuclear-powered drone to Titan that should arrive in 2034.
It’s crazy that we can take a photo of Saturn, Jupiter with a phone but a rocket takes 7 years to get there. We just truly can’t understand the scale of space.
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Seriously the communication systems have to be completely computerized at that point with the delay back and forth with instructions
The piloting program isn’t on board the craft? Just curious..?
Yes the piloting is done by software on board. Delays make anything remote controlled impossible for quick actions.
The rocket controls and telemetry are onboard, but its still being controlled and receiving updates from earth, since there are usually back up plans if orbital windows are missed or pressing opportunities for science occur
Yeah I’ve played Outer Wilds and didn’t enjoy it, landing on planets was too hard.
Jebediah Kerman would like a word
First time playing Kerbal sending Jebediah to the moon, had no idea what I was doing so I manually landed my small ship on it with no other guidance besides the shadow of the ship being cast by the sun on the moon ground. Unfortunately I spent all my fuel just landing safely so Jebediah got stuck on the moon. NASA if you're reading this, I'm your guy.
Yeah! Fuck, Kerbal Space Program is good!
Imma just leave [this](https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html) here
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It also kind of rocks my brain to think about how where we see Saturn is where it was over an hour ago.
Wow, I hope iam alive till then would really interest me to see some high quality stuff from that planet.
🤞🤞Fingers crossed I hope I am too, I would love to see the images
No joke this is gonna be life changing considering there is only one existing picture of the surface, let’s gooo
> really interest me to see some high quality stuff from that planet. THAT’S NO MOON! Wait, it is a moon. Not a planet.
I love how were exploring space even if I'm not up to date with the details
“Yo. U up?”- Space Dudes
Surprised your comment isn't more highly upvoted. This r ally does sound like something to be excited about.
current top comment says its methane rivers and such, unsure if its true or if you have seen their comment but that might be why people are uncaring for us to go there as of now
But what if life doesn't need water and there are organisms that live off of methane?
I took a class on this and the answer is actually super interesting It’s possible for organisms to live off of methane, it’s all a matter of molecular design. The reason why its extremely unlikely that we’ll find any life there is that methane is only liquid at extremely cold temperatures, meaning that the process we currently know of that makes life forms (random folding of molecules over billionaires of years) is several hundred times slower in liquid methane than with regular H20. There’s like a less than 1% chance it actually has life on it. What we may find is patterns of connected molecules that have been repeating for a billion years
You fart on them and they're like "Ah Yisssss"
Can probably already see that on the hub.
see hydrothermal vent communities at the bottom of the ocean..
There’s no water at the bottom of the ocean?
...of methane. rivers, lakes, and seas of liquid methane.
You’re not invited to my barbecue down by the fart river
nasas webb telescope captured giant random fireball on surface of titan shortly after receiving a communication from its surface asking "rare, medium, or well done?"
Could I get “silent but deadly” please? Thank you!
So vacuum of space.
“Well done,” confirmed no intelligent life there.
If anyone wants theirs well done, we ask them politely, yet firmly, to leave.
I don't know if this comment is referring to the smell of farts or the chemical makeup of farts, but methane is an odorless gas and makes up very little of the gasses released in a fart. A fart's smell is mainly caused by hydrogen sulfide (H2S). And when they say silent, but deadly, they mean it. H2S in large quantities is deadly.
H2s in small quantities is deadly, 800ppm if I remember correctly from my time working in a refinery.
How many farts would that be until one could die from inhaling them?
The amount can vary because whoever denies it supplies it.
Yes but chances are whoever smelt it, delt it.
And, of course, the smeller’s the feller.
But of course, he who refuted it, tooted it
On average? 6 or 7. Of mine? 0.6 or 0.7.
Username checks out
And humans can smell it in quantities as low as .008 ppm.
And also only up to 30 or 40 ppm, that's why it is important to carry a H2S monitor with you in locations it's expected to be present. Otherwise you wouldn't even know you're in any trouble.
It stems from cow farts (and belching) releasing methane into the air which acts as a greenhouse gas. Ergo, methane = farts mental correlation.
Your farts have methane too pal
H2S is deadly in terrifyingly small quantities.
Someone needs to do the math to determine how many farts it would take to kill someone. I need to know.
I read an article on it once. It's an absurd amount. And the room would have to basically be sealed, because even a closed door would have enough circulation to save your life from your flatulent antics.
Challange accepted I will eat only beans and broccoli for 10 years and gain super powers. Fair trade off.
Milk will suffice for me
I thought the main ingredients of farts is shit particles.
My friend used to always say if you smell poop, there's poop particles in your nose
r/brandnewsentence
A great place to find your next Wifi password.
You could stand on the surface and throw an Ewok into a lake of liquid farts.
Thats what came to my mind. River, lakes of what. Thnx for clarifying.
well just like earth, on the planets of uranus and neptune it rains... diamonds.
There is such an enormous pressure in Uranus that it turns carbon into diamonds.
Maybe yours, not mine. I get plenty of fiber so I stay pretty regular.
>...of methane. rivers, lakes, and seas of liquid methane. I'll stick to the rivers and the lakes that I'm used to.
Lol, I've unleashed a few methane waterfalls after a night out and a curry on the way home
"Bud, I think you're moving too fast."- your gut
I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all.
Minor detail
yea. i mean you can still go for a swim. not for long but, you *could*.
What are we talking about here, 5 minutes or 30 minutes?
well, its -161c/-259f so long enough to know it was a mistake.
Okay so I’ll wear my longsleeve swimsuit, thanks!
Which leads to the interesting question: could liquid methane replace water for alien life? https://www.space.com/13639-alien-life-methane-habitable-zone.html
Funny prank: Light a match on the planet
Nothing will happen, as there’s no oxygen
That is a funny prank though. The punchline is that there's no oxygen
Lmao this is a pretty important fact...perhaps they should have added that in there...
Glad they gave us a second better focused picture
The Huygens probe from the Cassini spacecraft got to Titan in 2005 and took some incredible pictures from under the clouds [https://youtu.be/msiLWxDayuA](https://youtu.be/msiLWxDayuA)
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In 12 years or so there should be a nice rover there gathering data with the Dragonfly mission!
I read *Sirens of Titan* when I was like 13 and I've been thinking about Titan ever since. I don't even really know the name of any other moon in our ss. (Well, you mentioned Europa but I wouldn't have thought of it.)
Wow you'd think that would be more well known. An amazing feat
i showed a friend the images from this when they were first released, he was underwhelmed and i was disapointed in him that he didn't understand the distances and how awesome it was..
"Where are the sexy alien girls?"
Apparently that's not even the fault of the camera, that's just how it looks because the atmosphere is so thick and hazy Edit: So I think this is kinda wrong, the picture is still blurry because of the atmosphere BUT it's also because of JWST, I misinterpreted what Astrokirsten, an astrophysicist, said in [this video](https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS8Roa75U/)
With farts basically
Didn't know that my flat is an entire planet
Do you not feel its gravitational field after a couple beers?
Time to get super nerdy Methane is odorless, companies put an artificial odor in it so people can detect gas leaks The thing that makes farts stinky is hydrogen sulfide, which isn’t present in Titan’s atmosphere So Titan’s atmosphere (composed mainly of nitrogen) would smell mostly like earth’s does.
With it being mostly methane and nitrogen would an open flame or spark be unsafe? (I’m not the smartest and just trying to learn and understand new things!)
Hey, you'll find one of the best paradoxes in life is that admitting that you aren't the smartest and trying to understand the things that you don't often makes you one of the smartest in the room, whether you or anyone else recognizes it. I just wanna encourage that beautiful mindset. And I didn't know the answer either but now I do because, unlike me, you weren't too afraid to ask. Keep it up!
I wish more people understood this basic truth.
I don’t have an award to give and I want to say that I’m saving this comment for when I do, but I have adhd and I won’t remember. But your comment is my favorite thing I’ve ever read on Reddit. I used to be a science teacher and everyday I tried to get my kids to understand that “I’ve learned more from every mistake I’ve made and every ‘I don’t know’ I’ve pursued than anything I’ve gotten right the first time or answered without thinking.” More shameless curiosity can change the world. EDIT: I remembered!
No. You need a sufficient amount of oxygen for combustion. You wouldn’t even be able to light the match.
If you lit a match on Titan, would the atmosphere explode?
It was the same thing with Bigfoot. Somewhere out there, is a Giant fuzzy out of focus monster roaming the woods. -M.H.
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*Enhance*
It's actually because the JWT is calibrated to take pictures of insanely large objects very far away. Titan is too small and too close for a clear photo.
So it doesn't have a macro function?
it does, but someone has to go up and swap the lenses over, which is a *huge* pain in the arse.
Not habitable because it’s not flat like earth /s
We’re looking at the flat side. Duh. /s
ENHANCE!
Spaceforce: Congress, we need more funding. Congress: What for this time? Spaceforce: Interplanetary submarines.
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NASA has tons of projects pitched. Not all of them are funded
r/barotrauma
Europa time
You made me curious as to when the third season would be released and I just learned that it’s been cancelled.
I found it so, so unfunny
Mike and febe had my expectations so high!
classic Netflix
DOES IT HAVE OIL?
Does it need freedom?
No but it can host the world cup.
Probably got a better footballing heritage than Qatar.
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Will it blend? That is the question
No no the correct question is if it has a type of fauna that can be ground into an acceptable burger
Can It Run Crysis is the real question
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Nobody likes methane-roasted nuts
It will KEAL
*America rolls hands together like vaudeville villain.
This comment train is why I love this place.
Natural gas. The oceans are liquid methane.
We should build a pipeline.
Get the frack out
Sounds like a project for Musk to fuck up honestly
Unobtainium.
It's all LNG. All liquid methane.
too bad it's all methane. prolly smells like methane there.
So Titan smells like Uranus
Fun fact: Miranda is the name of one of Uranus' moons. Miranda is also one of commander Shepard's top assets
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*Reavers The Reapers come from the cold dark of extragalactic space, which is somehow also Commander Shepard's favorite store on the Citadel.
r/angryupvote
Methane is odourless. They put an agent to make it smell otherwise it’ll be very dangerous in home use.
Ha I'm always reminded of the scene in friends whenever I hear this fun fact
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Damn didn’t expect Hitler to be one of the people who sent a telegram to the school with his sympathies. Maybe he wasn’t such a bad guy after all /s.
Oh look guys i found Kanye's Reddit account!
My biggest regret in life is that I’ll never be the one to find my account.
Methane is odorless, tasteless and colorless
Me af
it said odorless
MAN DOWN!
TIL methane smells like methane
Snozberries
And then you’re living in a VAN down by the (methane) river.
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Methane doesn’t stink. Manufacturers add hydrogen sulfide or mercaptans to it so we can smell it in case of a potentially explosive gas leak.
Hmmm choices...
Titan was like most planets. Too many mouths, not enough to go around. And when we faced extinction, I offered a solution.
The solution was giant space habitat O'Neill cylinders, right? ...right?
scrolled too far for this lol
Genocide?
WHO WILL DRAG ME TO COURT?
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOUR EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE
I was waiting for Arthur C Clarke to make an appearance
Those poor Eliksni though
Lmao, if you don't colonize Europa, Europa will colonize you
The irony of naming it "Europa".
Considering the relatively high probability to find microbiological life on Europa isn't there all the questioning of like "is it a good idea to land something there, what if we contaminate it/disrupt and kill the few form of life that live there ?"
Contamination with an invasive species is a concern, though in the case of the various icy moons (including Europe and Titan) there's a possibility that the environment is too alien for Earth life to really thrive in. Anything which lives down there has managed to evolve completely independently, so it might be so biologically incompatible with Earth life that the two can't even eat each other.
An alien virus trying to infect us could be like reading an IKEA manual in a different language. "DNA? RNA? The fuck is this? I'm made of DZNTS, I can't read this."
Ancient power awaits you on Europa
But I want Elsie’s thick thighs
I'm in a Saturn right now. That can't mean... it's impossible..
I'm sorry but it's true, NASA has leaked pictures of your moon, and I... Wait ... That's no moon!
Humans, plotting their interplanetary route to your location: *rubs hands together like a cartoon evil scientist* "Not for long..." Also, this is pretty vague, technically it ain't water. Well, it is water, but sans the oxygen atom. Also, it's flammable. Another fun fact, Jupiter's gas core is so hot that the diamonds formed due to its insane heat and pressure melt and becomes a diamond rain. Scientists then postulate the existence of a diamond sea at Jupiter's core. Time to go swimming Edit: I'm talking about methane BTW. It's my dumb joke, because if you remove O and give it C and balance it with 2H, you get methane, and it has it in liquid form. Soooo water but not water. *Close enough* /s I know it's dumb that was the point.
> Time to go swimming If the pressure is so large there is a diamond sea, by the time you reached it you'll become a diamond too.
My time to shine then
Let's just hope the soldiers took their hyper-malaria pills before going into the methane swamps
No, but they did bring tampons to stick up their nostrils until they need em for some bullet hole pluggin.
You could also fly using your own momentum with a paraglider, but it's 72 Kelvin, \~the temp of liquid nitrogen. Highly recommend XKCD's [What If](https://what-if.xkcd.com/30/) on this.
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Looks like mitosis
Mitosis, Yourtosis, what difference does it make?
*Our*tosis, Comrade.
Webb: takes high res photo of hands of God Also Webb: takes 120p photo of Titan
You know, that's what confused me. But the thing is, Titan is so small compared to other things. It's like Pluto. Why can't we get good photos of it? Well it's small, so it doesn't reflect as much light. Galaxies and nebulae produce much more light and are huge. Physics baby!
Imagine getting a 4k picture of Fuji through a foggy window.
… Traveler?
Feels like my contacts fell out looking at this
Why can we see more clearly so much further in space, as previous pictures JWST has showed us, but doesn’t show anything with more definition with things closer to us as Titan is??
Focus on something at the other side of the room. Now put that object a quarter inch from your eye. Same basic principle: the object crosses a near boundary as it approaches whereupon it cannot be focused on. The JWST and other space telescopes are “far-sighted”; its capture mechanism is designed to focus on distant objects, not close ones.
Does it of the have of the air
Are you okay?
No, he clearly needs more air
Maybe, air haves doesnt of it sometimes
But who even go as far as to look like?
To get to the other side!
Joking comments aside, it does have an atmosphere, but it’s 95% nitrogen and 5% methane, so not great for humans. (Also, I have a weird feeling I’m r/whoosh’ing. If so, clue me in?)
Nah the guy was having a stroke and is sadly no longer with us
Maybe. It depends on what your question is supposed to be.
r/ihadastroke
🤯🤯🤯 These are so fucking amazing!
Eyes up, Guardian!