1 billion years, so right around the corner then, I'd better start packing

"Geologists, along with scientists." That's hilarious.

We're not colonizing either one of those places until we've colonized our own moon, made tons of mistakes, and then learned from them in order to apply that knowledge toward colonizing far away worlds.

Has ANYONE here considered the intense and VERY deadly radiation belts of our two largest planets? Good freaking luck trying to set up colonies on the moons of these Gas Giants.

Mars is practice. Titan is just too far out right now.

Ganymede out of all the moons has a magnetosphere, but the main issue with it his the radiation from Jupiter.

if we can get a colony on Mars, then Titan will be easier.

First, we probe Uranus.

I'd rather go to Titan, just being able to see Saturn like that every time I go outside would be amazing.

Maybe we just look at Europa from afar. “ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS - EXCEPT EUROPA.” - The Monolith

How is 50% denser atmosphere mean being like 50 feet under water? Shouldn't the feeling be more like 5 meters underwater?

All of what you said is true but considering how cold titan is i would sooner be a popsicle than a icecream sandwhich since it would take alot more to stay warm, and any heater failure would mean death, mars is cold too, but it the difference is like warm water and liquid nitrogen.

Plot twist: Dune turns out to be Earth 25,000 years from now. Mind. Blown.

Mars is hostile but it has solid rocky ground whereas the surface of Titan is ice. The temperatures in the tropics of Mars are almost Earthlike: up to 25°C in the day time in summer and Antarctic temperatures at night. There are good supplies of frozen water and minerals and the gravity is much more Earthlike at 38% than Titan's definitely unhealthy 14%. The superficial similarity of Titan to Earth with a dense nitrogen atmosphere and hydrocarbon rain doesn’t overcome the distance, the cold, the absence of a rocky surface and the very low gravity. Besides - _hydrocarbon_ rain? Mars is a truly unpleasant place for human life but artificial habitats can be made comfortable using some local resources. Titan's surface being nothing but water ice, even habitat materials would have to come from Earth or from some other rocky world. Even Ceres would be a bit better than Titan. Edit: Thought about this later. I suppose you could build the outer structure of your Titan habitat out of ice. Igloos work. Given the right equipment hydrocarbons from the local lake could be used to make plastic. But that's the limit of your local resources.

I noticed in most colonization videos they rarely talk about the problems of low gravity and what this does on the body long term.

I loved KSR's Mars trilogy novels. One thing he did was to send robots to Triton (moon of Neptune) that cut huge blocks of frozen nitrogen and very accurately launched them toward Mars such that they would enter a decaying orbit, sublime and release their mass as nitrogen gas, thus building up the atmosphere. Fascinating!

I figured out it would only take 200 Nitrogen Bombs to make H2O atmosphere on Saturn.

Antarctica is orders of magnitude more hospitable than Mars. Mars is orders of magnitude easier to colonize than Titan.

i want more on other habitable moons

_Can_ we send colonists on a one-way trip to Titan? Yes. Yes, we can. Whether or not that would be a horribly bad idea is another question entirely.

I would love to see a video about the possibility of colonising Callisto, as it is the only Jovian moon, outside of Jupiter’s radiation

Best place for a colony on Mars is underground in a lava tube or under a domed crator. New plastics block much of the radiation and the water in the air beneath the dome is enough to zap the rest of it. The perchlorate is the biggest problem.

Gravity dictates our blood pressure, and insures all our organs, especially our hearts, are working properly, or working effectively against an outside force. Earths Gravity encompasses our entire biological existence, the size of the Earth is relative to the gravitational force on our bodies. So living on Mars or any moons (much smaller bodies with very little gravitational force) in our solar system would be a death sentence. Without Earths gravitational influence our internal organs would not fare well (they will eventually disintegrate). No idea why the 'living on Mars' thing never mentions this simple biological fact.

One idea is to merge Phobos and Deimos together, to create bigger tidal forces on the core, partially restarting liquidity, hence the magnetosphere.

Yes please for vids on those other moons! Oh yes❤

A VERY interesting video. The more options we have for colonization, the more likely that one or more will be successful!

10:20 what went wrong there? Conversion error + you were not sure whether to count the earth atmosphere? or did you confuse 15 with 50

Venus is best imo, just need to build floating colonies. And it can be terraformed since it has everything required for life, same gravity as earth too. Just a hostile heavy atmosphere perfect for floating on.

Can’t breathe the fart air or drink the gasoline methane liquid on Titan.

You also forgot to mention the low gravity effect on your health. It destroys all your muscles and bones!

Let’s see if we can make the Earth more livable first.😊

With rapid rise in AI tech and development of Robot manual workers. We may be able to prepare specific locations on Titan to be liveable, wether underground or indoor city.

i have to imagine it would relatively easy to preserve earths climate for an extra billion or two years than to terraform a dead world from scratch, tho a billion years is so long it might not matter much

Even with the oceans gone, Earth would still be more habitable than Titan and Mars. (And closer.)

Pretty much any colonization scheme requires vast amounts of space transport infrastructure. So it requires non-rocket type of lifting material from moons, like spin launch, mass drivers, and/or space elevators. If you can do that, you might as well build space habitats, so you can engineer the conditions that you want. My suggestion for a good location for a mine would be Enceladus. This has a rocky core approximately 25 km below the surface of water ice. Given the low gravity, the pressure at the surface of the rocky core would be about 25 atmospheres. You could build a lava tube up to the surface to form a tunnel to extract the rock. Install a mass driver in the tunnel, and launch rock and ice into orbit around Saturn. Winning.

Sea-dwelling Titanians: "Where the hell are all these microplastics in our methane lakes coming from?? And all these heavy metals? Somebody check what's going on at the surface..."

Excellent production quality-- narration, writing, music/sound & graphics alike-- as usual, Destiny. Thumbs up. I appreciate that the audio, which has a nice flow, subtlety and appropriateness, doesn't overwhelm the narration (Melodysheep [You Tube] sometimes goes a little overboard/'whiz-bang' with the editing/scene pace and the [choir/vocal] music.), and that the graphics are relatively relevant to the subject-matter. (Subtlety, slow-pace and simplicity can be sublime sometimes.) I might understand and appreciate the work going into finding and/or creating them as well. In this regard, presumably, you're already aware of possible help from AI, like maybe DALL-E or Stable Diffusion, maybe others and even already apply it/them? I also appreciate the science/fact-based hypotheticals too and listen to John Michael Godier (also You Tube) for that reason as well, although his production is relatively spartan, despite his good narration and science-based, often thought-provoking, hypotheticals/imagination. Perhaps I'm wrong, but Destiny seems to be trying to strike a balance WRT the aforementioned for examples, but also including WRT the shows' lengths and regularity; not too long or short and not too frequent or infrequent, respectively. A long time ago, I did a student paper about my hypothetical Martian Terraforming idea, citing such people as Carl Sagan & Chris McKay, but at the end of it, admitted that there were many problems, including orbital resonance, if I recall the term. This means, if recalled correctly, that increasing the mass of any moon or planet, such as to increase its gravity and atmosphere retention, might run the risk of detrimentally changing the orbits of them and others as a result. If Earth is already 'toast' in the sun's nova scenario, some of that might not matter, but it still seems important enough to think about things along those lines. One last thought, and perhaps an important one to consider WRT hypothetics, is the idea of surfing the sun's nova-- space-faring outward as the sun expands-- and how Mars and the moons of the outer planets will likely change and possibly be more accommodating to humans before we even begin to consider terraforming or otherwise colonizing them. Mars, for example, might start to warm up and even produce surface water again, even if relatively temporarily (ten thousand years?), while many currently-frozen, barren and/or airless moons of Jupiter and Saturn, including Titan or Ganymede, could become water worlds, begging to be colonized... ...That said, there are some ideas for any future shows, incidentally, namely how/when/where/etc. the sun's nova could slowly open up new worlds for humans to escape to.

What about aerostatic habitats on the Venusian atmosphere? At a hight of 30-50 km from the surface, it's the most earth-like environment in the solar system, 95% gravity, dense atmospheric protection from micrimeorites and radiation, with a pressure that the human body can adapt to, goldilocks temperatures. One would need a corrosion resistant sealed suit and oxygen supply, little more than diving equipment to go out.

Well, chop-chop! We only have about 1.3 billion years until Earth is inhabitable. We better get a move on! Put down that gravity bong and get to work!

it might be even better to colonise venus but not in the way people think.... first it would start with basically airships in the high upper atmosphere on the edge of space... all the while seeding the upper atmosphere with gmo bacteria and other organisims designed to change the atmosphere. This is at least in part a carl sagan concept

Looks like someone forgot the civilization tablet… (Type 2 can control star systems: Gravity of everything, Energy, Orbits etc)

It's like Titan's BEGGING us to come: " I have Water, propylene, a extra thick atmosphere and a BITCHIN view of saturn! What more so you want?!"

I love your videos, thanks so much

I'm sure some day we'll occupy Titan. But Mars first. With all that methane it won't be hard to stay warm. Just don't ignite the entire planet.

Scientists should search for a large cave or cavern system where humans can seal up and live for protection from solar radiation and meteors. they can place solar panels for energy and green houses for growing food outside. That way we do not have to transport building materials for dome homes.

Mars is a good half way stop to titan when planets are aligned. It's a good fueling station

Great video, thanks. Keep them coming boys!

Imagine being born on Titan and being called a Titanion and learning the history of your great great great great great great and a billion more great ancestors who used to live On Earth 🌎 and how beautiful they were and how beautiful The Planet Earth 🌎 used to be. 🌊🍀🏞️🦋🏖️

By far the biggest advantage Titan has over Mars is that the atmospheric pressure on Titan is suitable for human life. Therefore buildings would not need to be pressurized like they would on Mars, and we wouldn't need space suits to walk on the surface of Titan. All we would need is a source of heat (which we could easily generate due to the abundance of hydrocarbons on Titan) as well as oxygen. The distance to Titan is an issue but there are nuclear fusion rockets in development that can travel 500,000 MPH. At that speed, we could reach Titan in under 1 year.

So, the distance argument makes Mars easier to colonize humans… thats for sure. Robots that can create factories for Titan though. The nuclear argument has no say when it comes to hydrogen bombs. They use the word “dirty bombs” now when warheads cause radioactive fallout.

You had me at "Dunes" 11:52

Yes, please do more videos about colonizing the various planets and moons of our solar system.

Very nice video, please explore Jupiters moons too ❤

The problem with Titan is the radiation. Most people don't know this, but the two gas giants in our system, Jupiter and Saturn, are incredibly radioactive.

I see us mainly using Titan as a moon size gas station for future versions of Starships. On the way out to the outer system.

Wait... they're warning about the radiation on Mars and then recommending Titan?

We should have a permanent post on Earth's moon first, then Mars, then we can start venturing out to orbiting satellites on Venus, Jupiter, Jupiter's moons and terrestrial stations, and then Saturnian ventures. Until all the large planets, moons, and planetoids are explored, and permanently manned, we won't even attempt to go interstellar.

We have to hit mars before we hit titan

Yes - for comparison sake, could you also do Europa, Ganymeade and Encalidus?

The fact that they are thinking like this is pretty cool.

..it’s laughable, anywhere away from Earth would just be unsustainable and way too hostile

I agree with Elon. If humanity wants to continue. We need to become a multi planetary species.

How much mass would it take to make some sort of gravity pull, and why don’t we capture an asteroid, mine it, and make a huge space station around it?

please make a video on the three remaining moons mentioned.

I have believed there is life on Titan for years - I just hope I am alive when they confirm it.

I say we go all in on Europa. Who is with me?

Titan is far colder than Mars and has a methane/ammonia atmosphere!

A thousand years from now, with fusion reactors and warp drive, take carbon dioxide from Venus, Nitrogen from Titan, and Hydrogen from Jupiter, and transport it to Mars. We wouldn't even have to land on Venus because we could have cities in the clouds that compress carbon dioxide for the transport ships.

If you dig into mars, will the gravity and pressure increase the deeper you go?

In last 20 years the temperature on earth have raised with 0.06 Celsius and we are struggling and we can’t fix this issue yet !! Let’s fix earth before we go and fix elsewhere

i would also like to hear more about this ;D

I love this video! Well done!!! More videos on Terraforming pleassse! Before the moments gone 😅. Perhaps we can bio engineer some bacteria algae or fungus to change the chemical composition of these places for us? That's how earth got an oxygen atmosphere

I think it would be easier to just fix our own planet, especially since it’s ALREADY HABITABLE!

Funny, people also said reusable rockets were a horrible idea as well, saying nothing of rockets that could land themselves, said it was impossible. We obviously know how that worked out.

distance as well as the time need to be spent on travelling will be the biggest obstacle when it comes to the colonisation of other planets in the near future

One thing that always baffles me about Mars. How can there be duststorms if atmosphere is almost non existant compared to Earth standard?

Considering you have to get to Mars to get to the rest of the solar system of your objectively wrong.

It's not a problem that mars is inhabitable, the real problem is distance. Therefore Mars should be the only aim for us in short term, after we achive enough then we can try beyond Mars.

if humanity spent half as much money and time trying to colonize space as it did trying to come up with new ways to destroy itself we’d probably have had a human on Mars by now

I think all things considered Titan would be every bit as hard to colonize ss Mars, if not harder. The dense atmosphere on Titan, the main advantage Titsn has over Mars, would be really good at transferring heat...meaning freezing to death would be a much more significant threat on Titan than on Mars. And you just can't easily burn methane for energy. You need energy to extract oxygen to burn with methane. Thats not free energy.

Building stuff out of plastics, okay it might seem logical at first glance. But if this is the way we go, we must not end up doing it the way we do it on Earth. There must be a better way or at least a better recycling schedule.

Titan is the dumbest idea ever proposed.

I wish we would explore more into the usage of a pure plasma particle cell in a plasma particle accelerator for fuel source in the process of traveling through space. I know what you're going to say the plasma particle cell breaks anticipates to the cylinder walls inside the decompress chamber but there is a way of getting around that there is a way of utilizing the technology that we currently have to travel through space better than what we do

If we have enough technology to set up such complicated structures in Mars, we probably could adjust to future conditions on Earth 😂

Don't b3 so sure people have no idea just how God like A.I will be. Would not be surprised cancer cured in next 4/5 years

Titan is just as a horrible idea as Mars... take care of the planet you have now...

Assuming we can keep our oxygen from freezing.... it'll be a walk in the park. Short of earth exploding, why would you even bother trying to leave, its worst day and spot is better than there.

Yes, please produce videos on potential colonies on the other moons. Once you have covered the other moons we can also have a space station, refueling depot and internet moon transports. Also don’t forget a nuclear cruise ship to transport humans to Saturn and back, originally built on an earth moon shipyard.

Transporting and sustaining squishy humans in their current form on another planet would require outrageous resource usage, beyond meticulous planning, and an abhorrently tedious lifestyle for the settlers. Our best move, whether we're talking about Mars or Titan or anywhere else, is to wait until we have very good autonomous robots with high level AGI, or to wait even further until we're able to do dramatic amounts of genetic manipulation.

Imagine colonizing/terraforming a planet only to rely on X for communication

Titan, Mars, we even having trouble with moon

I wonder how warm Titan will be when Sol is in its red-giant phase.

So one air leak and the entire moon goes no ty

I don't see the sense in needing to go to another planet to destroy it like we are doing to earth 🌎 😢. I think we should stick here and find ways to solve our problem, not create more elsewhere 😢😢

Thank you, I was like “Has literally *nobody* else noticed that Titan is practically just a cold Antarctica with low gravity and no oxygen? Also Titan has natural gas EVERYWHERE

Please make more about this topic

What a dumb video title.

Titan we can't even get to Toxy in liverpool

Set a course for Mars. This is our stepping stone to Titan.

1 billion years.... that's why we're already searching for a new home! Let that logic sink in.