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The writers tricking Simon into making anime references he doesn’t understand.

"Eren Yeager wannabe, Zeus." Might be my new favorite reference joke Simon has made.

"A bearded Eren Yeager wanabe named Zeus" YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT WRITER. Also, its always funny to me when Simon is made to talk about anime or Lord of the Rings by his writers, and he often doesn't know when he's referencing them.

Random fun fact, despite both Titan and Ganymede are larger than Mercury, the combined mass of both of them would be less than Mercury, because Mercury is the second densest planet after Earth

Simon just glazing over anime references without even realizing they were there gets me every time

Ahh, I do so love it when Simon geeks out about space topics. Delightful and very well written - thank you for another fantastic space video!!

That Titan joke caught me off guard at the beginning lmao.

Titan is, to me, far more interesting than Mars as a potential future space-flight destination (crewed or not): Although its much smaller than Earth (about midway between the diameters of Mars and our Moon), its atmospheric pressures are higher: about half-again Earth’s. That makes building structures much easier, and simplifies radiation shielding. As you pointed out, Titan probably has an underground ocean, which is an incredible opportunity for Biological research. Internal-combustion engines would, conceptually, be possible to run on Titan, but instead of *fuel* tanks, they would have *oxygen* tanks, taking in and burning methane from the air around it!

I love hearing about the outer moons, things always get wild around Jupiter and Saturn. Ceres, the largest asteroid in the Asteroid Belt, is also super fun to study.

Both the Europa Clipper and Dragonfly are one of the projects I work on at NASA and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. These are monumental projects that will probably help redefine our understanding of science in general. Now do one on the project LISA. It is a team of satellites that will orbit a million miles apart and will detect gravitational waves in space and time. Further proving Einstein's theory. Or how about the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - which will replace Hubble and will capture 100 times more of the universe's sky in one capture. It should collect as much data in 6 months as Hubble did in its lifetime. Or you can do some of the boring earth science stuff like PACE which will scan all the earth's water every 3 days and we will know what is living in the water by the color of it. It is one of the most advanced telescopic satellites NASA has ever built. The telescope spins at 6 times per second and uses a spectrometer (measures the colors of light). There are also some cool things like a robot that will refuel satellites in space. There is even talk of refueling ones that are not meant to be refueled by cutting them open. It's a robotic satellite repair technician.

If Dragonfly manages to cover 8km per flight, it really would be impressive. Ingenuity has only managed to fly about 3.5km so far after several flights. The density of the atmosphere Titan has vs Mars makes the dynamics of flight entirely different, so it's not an apples to apples comparison, but it is crazy to think that we can send these vehicles 100's of thousands of miles through space and land them pretty consistently, and then the vehicles themselves take years to cover less distance than most people will while they commute to work haha

As a Seattle Native I wanted to say "Hey!" but then I looked outside... Yea, the Sun is called Day Star here and there are myths spoken of it from Oct-April.

“Titan is like an onion or an ogre. It has layers” 😂 love it

Simon Whistler 'bout to drop that Astrographics channel.

🤣 the whistler probe made me laugh way to hard

Titan is my favourite celestial body in the solar system. I'd love to sit beneath the hazy sky, on a cliff overlooking its seas of liquid methane, slowly drifting to sleep to the sound of hydrocarbons lapping against the shore. It's such a fascinating, dreamy little place, tucked away in a part of the solar system you wouldn't expect to find anything like it

I love how straight faced Simon is when making an attack on titan joke, when I know he has no idea what he is making the joke about (from a brain blaze video).

That's almost as cold as Finland

Temperatures so low water becomes as hard as a rock. In Canada we call that "Ice".

I especially love these astrobiological topics and scenarios that, as Simon puts it either drastically 'underestimates or overstimates our astrobilogical understanding'.... Fun fact for AstroBio needs btw; the kind of hypothetical life built off of Titans (m)ethane lakes would (as imagined) still fit the Carbon-chauvinist model, just not the water-as-solvent model

Your videos get me through my day. We spend 8 hrs loading and unloading trucks. Everyone else is blasting Metallica and other heavy metals (🤟🏼fair enough) but I’m on your channel learning about oligarchs and historical fallacies. The space vids are always a treat. Thank you, a million times over.

Love to see what kind of creatures live in those oceans

Close-up Simon is rather charming.

In an age where we're still blowing each other up un pointless willy-swinging wars, we still manage to demonstrate our insatiable curiosity, trying to find out what's out there in space...

Wondering if Simon watches anime, or if the script writer made that reference lol

It's the third time in 6 hours that I hear that Shrek reference. I think the universe has something to tell me.

Maybe one day we can have gateways that’ll get us to Titan and Ganymede in mere seconds, à la Cowboy Bebop. Then again, the Earth got a little bit busted up due to a gate incident...oh well, sci-fi dreams are just that.

Another cracking video from one of my favourite writers in the Whistler-verse. The new discoveries that might be made are just mind-blowing.

I had a book on all the solar system and moons as a kid. Titan was always one of my faves

With the AoT reference u clever dog!

I wish we would explore these moons already.

"The Whistler Probe"... why does that conjure unexpected images? As an aside it is incredible to comprehend that Titan might host not one but two independent Genesis' from Earth - one in the sub-surface ocean of water and one in the surface oceans of hydrocarbons. Of course there's almost certainly nothing there at all but for now we can dream.

The writer Morris went above and beyond on this one. Laughed so much while being informed. "Eren Jaeger wannabe" LOL!

As always, a fascinating look into our own solar system. Another job well done. Thanks Simon!

RIP Opportunity, I actually shed a tear when that thing shut down

I am a space nerd and your explanations at the start have pleased me.

Deffo the funniest script so far. Your opening gag about precipitation occupying 95% of British small talk was spot on! 😂

The Undying Mercenaries series has a book called Machine World that is roughly based on a Titan like world. ScFi please do a show based off the books!

Nice AOT reference

Titan is definitely the Mars of the outer solar system. Our biggest colony outside of Earth and Mars And maybe our last bastion of life in this solar system as the sun goes red giant and warms up the outer solar system for habitability

One tiny issue it takes light 80 minutes to travel to Titan not 18. Saturn is 9.5 A.U. away from the sun an A.U being the average distance from the sun to the Earth. It takes 8 minutes for light to reach Earth got to multiply that by 9.5 to reach Titan. Great content across all your channels all very interesting 👍🏻

Simon attempting to do a Canadian accent and failing is the most British thing that has ever happened.

My favorite thing about Titan is the New Pacific Archology. Really amazing feat of human engineering.

I don’t know who put the title on this video, but their definition of “Earthlike” is extremely loose. Titan has oceans of hydrocarbons and is cold enough to make electronics run noticeably faster than on Earth, for crying out loud!

Joke dropping is on point. Great job

Titan is often thought of as, 4 billion years ago, close to a twin of the Earth of the time. But since then, Earth grew alive, whereas Titan went into the deep freeze!

I hit that like button so many times for that AOT reference!!! My man!!!

The jokes on this episode were pretty good. Nice.

I am totally using "a thousand HP Lovecrafts on a thousand typewriters."

Mind blowing realization, we went from the Wright brothers to Cassini-Huygens in one human lifetime

your demeanor is just so pleasant throughout the whole video. loved this one

"Impressive Girth" Had me CRACKING up! LOLOL

This video is 👌🏽 the writer deserves a ton of credit. Very well written indeed!

The Whistler Probe must be a real thing someday! "As dead inside as your ex."😂😂😂😂

One thing I would love to do before I die is set foot on another world... I would even settle for the moon. At the current pace, it isn't looking too good but I am still optimistic that medical breakthroughs will at some point allow me to live long enough to get out there.

Soooo... serious question: would it make sense and put MUCH more resources into the Titan mission and add like 2-3 people on a one-way mission, so that in turn they can perform real-time management, maintenance etc., improving the chances? Because people signed up for much sillier things in the past, I have no doubts there'd be many volunteers happy to sacrifice their lives for unprecedented scientific improvements...

Cheers for that Simon, great video as always, and thank you to H.M.S Whistler for that outstanding journey!

It's weird how I love how he says "me-thane" instead of the U.S. way "meth-ane"

Excellent work Simon! Of course when some of those missions happen, I'll be really really old, if I'm still around!

That Titan lander Dragonfly remins me of the "Spaceships of Ezekiel" ... a lot!!

10:51 "Dead inside as your ex.." 🤣🤣 Hahaha

This is so awesome I've always wondered about Titan

Another fantastic space video,,, so intriguing

11:57 - Ah, but an infinite number of Lovecrafts with an infinite number of typewriters will describe them in their entirety almost instantaneously :)

Love for Simon Whistler just wonderful presentation and interesting topics always

@ 12:30 ; The theory of cell membranes working in crazy backwards ways . . . So Titan's microbiology would be Insane In The Membrane ? Wow, Noble Prize for Cypress Hill !

The number of solar systems that exists beyond our own is a number we can’t comprehend. If there are trillions of galaxies imagine how many solar systems there are. People fear alien life but I fear that we are truly alone in this vast expanse of space. Which is statically improbable.

"Stop right there thief!" "Meethane" "Oh, sorry Thane. I didn't recognize you"

Next, I'd love to learn more about Triton, planet Neptune's largest natural moon

This is the second time you’ve mentioned aot lol I love it

Absolutely love the attack titan references

Loved the content and the presentation, but HOLY COW! Why so many ads?

Amazing script! Great intro and closing.

It was the rumbling reference that got me.

Totally wicked!. I remember the 1st images of Pluto from New Horizons after waiting 9 years. I can only imagine with our rapidly advancing technology what imaging of Titan from Dragonfly will be like. But I'll be in my 50s by then

Amazing!

I didn't know you had a new channel. I better subscribe.

My husband and I went to a Science museum in Rochester, NY, enjoying a video from the Cassini-Huygens satellite/probe/lander in the summer of 2004. It was awesome. I'd definitely recommend stopping by the museum though I cannot remember its name (sorry).

10:52 finally someone understands

Thank you.

The Eren yeager part 😂😂😂I died

3:00 "Seasons last seven years" So that is where The Song of Ice & Fires takes place?

I would LOVE to visit Titan!

As a Canadian I nearly died at the comment "it's chilly here, eh?" Fantastic! Thank you Simon!

Earth like moon means the Earth is like a moon. Earth-like moon means that a moon is like the Earth.

Good video 👍

I appreciate the Lovecraft shout out

Excellent!!!¡

You have done well

The war on Titan will forever be one of the worst conflicts to be conducted by the Mars Army.

"But since it's already so cold that even Canadians would be like its chilly here eh" 🤣

Excellent video 📹 Probes, drones and remote helicopter 🚁 is the way forward

Did he say eren?

Canadians would think it’s cold, Yorkshiremen would be waiting for it to get colder so they could put their coats on

The Voyagers still function also.

"Earth-like" is a leap when it's average temperature is -179°C.

“A bearded Eren Yeager wannna be” Zeke Yeager: Am I a Joke to you?

Simon's got the snark this episode

Dragonfly just better keep an eye out for any big purple wrinkly-chin dudes with jewel-encrusted golden gloves.