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  • I've heard that there is a chance life could be on titan similar to early life on earth, in which the atmosphere was mostly methane. But there is such a small chance because it's so cold there, i don't think anything could survive. Even extremophiles. The most likely place to find life in our solar system would probably be Saturn's moon enceladus. The one with the vast undergound ocean. NASA needs to send a probe there.

  • there is no aliens in this universe alien in other one universe i see aliens in other universe not all universe like us we live in one universe not the all universe

  • @mrsaqibmajeed Do you know what a universe is? do you mean solor system or galaxy...

    The problem is as we are now discovering when a civilisation develops an economy and attempts to bridge the gap from level 0 (planatry) to level 1 (solar), its economy fails and goes back into the stone age. In order for a aliens to find us from another solar system they would likely need to be level 2 (galactic - hopping between stars in the same galaxy(startrek) or universal(starwars)hopping between galaxys

  • @chrisbaker121924 ohhhhhhhh sorry i mean galaxy

  • Spend more money to save our planet after spend money to make more earthlike planet in our solar system.After spend money to find anothers out of solar system.

  • come to think of it, it was like they spent billions of dollars to get some pictures and rock analysis...

  • duuuude!! titan is a pretty cool moon >.<

  • are we not contaminating the Jovian moons?

    attempt no further landing ...

  • 350 images 'lost' possibly showed intelligent life on Titan. NASA didn't want to admit there might be cities or towns and groups of intelligent life on Titan, so they made the excuse they 'lost' the images.

  • Less money on pointless space travel and more money on expanding welfare programs!

  • @manco82 I hope you're being sarcastic...

  • all that money and they can't afford a colour camera? the fuck!

  • It is easier for a rope to go through an eye of a needle than for us to find life in space or find a suitable planet. A metaphor from the bible.

  • @KwongLee12345678 Also a stupid comment.

  • @fishsoftware Wild goose chase.

  • The channel that went out was deliberately jammed because what is really on titan is it's a mountains of cocaine and opiates that some aliens want all for themselves because they are interstellar addicts. If humans discover this we will have to blow up the moon because drugs are bad.

  • this thing costs billions of $ but they didnt have the money for a color camera?!

  • @BigBottleLightInc can you imagine how long it would take to transmit one 24-bit (true color) image? They don't have a high-speed connection to Titan, the reason images look so "crappy" is because not only are the images transferred between the probe and mother-ship, but then ~842180342 miles to earth, this means that there must have been some error while in transmission (not all packets must have been received), plus the image was probably very compressed, so there must have been color loss.

  • @dmitryk53  You must not forget the haze too. The image wasn't in black and white, I think it is in color but the atmosphere of Titan is so thick with aerosols it makes everything diffuse looking and orangey-brownish.

  • My last album went platinum on Titan !

  • It still makes me weepy.

  • what if the aliens are more like snakes?

  • @kanetpol31 Nooo, terraformation would kill the beauty of it.

  • does anyone know what actually happened to the probe? I mean did it freeze or something? becuase apparently it sent like 2 or 3 pictures and then....nothing. unless the government is hidding something.

  • @cricket2892 Probes like that usually die due to the atmosphere, it was probably destroyed or something. The government isn't hiding anything, they just hate space shit and don't give nasa enough money to make a good enough probe.

  • @cricket2892 Never mind my last comment, I just watched the whole video and it said that they lost 350+ images, they were transmitted, but not received, fuck.. It leads one to wonder why the fuck they would forget to turn on the channel?! I still have my doubt about the government hiding things from us, but it's still partially there fault because they never properly fund NASA, if they did, we'd have those 350 pictures... shit...

  • @Trancebeat79

    lol, please...

  • the europeans bombed with the bad design of the lander. NASA should not have let them do it

  • lol, what a coincidence that the most meticulous minds in the world forgot to turn on the spectrometer or whatever nasa calls that... it smells like another coverup, im guessing there is protocol when turning on billion dollar equipment and sending it to space, kinda like stitching up a patient and then telling him, "ooops we forgot to turn on your pacemaker!"

  • nice office dude... the monitor looks like a nice samsung LCD..

  • That was an amazing mission!

  • lame, u sent hundreds of millions of dollars piece of equipment for 1 fuzzy foto? wtf!!

  • @MrKingPin360 And what a glorious photo it was.

  • @MrKingPin360 pwned by bio0link

  • The aliens turned of the channel!

  • to bad the rivers are filled with gas

  • Still waiting for the day we set foot on Gilese 581. h

  • Amazing achievement.

  • I remember seeing the first images and hearing the sounds of the descent! I was blown away! It's incredible we can send a probe approximately 1 billion miles from home, through the vast void of space, with the planets so far away from each other, and successfully land on a moon that far away with absolute precision! I find it beyond amazing! I say we send another mission! I say we visit all the moons! 10 years ago, we thought Enceladus was just another frozen rock, but it's indeed, quite active!

  • so does it have tacos?

  • Cmon guys even if they did discover life, do you really think the government would tell us?

  • @nickmooreimages I think they would actually tell us. it would be probably the greatest scientific discovery ever, and a point of pride to say the US did it, just like how we feel about landing on the moon.

  • @nickmooreimages ..why wouldn't they?

  • @nickmooreimages That's a sad truth. Would it really be a harm that it was known? Damn governments... -.-

  • @Alpharius93 It's not because of the governments that we would not know. The desparate war that would happen because of offended religions would be the danger. They would be so frustrated that God created life somewhere else, and they were no longer his special pets that they would panic and destroy people to get their fear and frustrations out over this revelation.

  • @the81stviewer True... but that war could not happen if we don't allow it. If we explain them their sacred books were all written too much time ago (as far as I know), when no one knew about today's advancements and discoveries, that they're obsolete as their writters couldn't imagine how the universe really is, they might understand.

  • @nickmooreimages I hope you realize that they would only censor potentially dangerous material, not the "beginning" of other living organisms. i really don't understand why you think the government is so dark and shady.

  • @binladencansukmy If the public knew we weren't alone in the universe, the majority of all religions would collapse, violence would rise, our system of "morals" and "well being" would be jeopardized without the presence of a 'god' watching our every move. It's all about control and keeping us busy and brainwashed like sheep.

  • @nickmooreimages Your argument seems very well written, however, allow me to repeat your argument in my perspective. Your basically saying that there is a truth and the government is keeping it away from us to keep us safe. Which is basically what I just said.

  • @nickmooreimages Hopefully it would slip out somehow lol

  • @nickmooreimages no multicellular life is native beyond earth in the orbit of Sol.

  • @nickmooreimages Our biosphere is a precious and rare thing.

  • its been 6 years do they got more?

  • @Mountaind3ws I can only speculate what they might be like.. there are just so many possibilities out there :)

  • LOL @ people who say "god did it"

  • to bad real life isnt like mass effect or star wars but hey theres always hope

  • @PrivetCyan maybe after 2000 years it will be :)

  • i wound if an avatar is there i wounder???????

  • 3:58, Armageddon soundtrack.

  • The Rise of The Titan

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  • Spore

  • @CandyBlooded oh that would be cool :D

  • STOP SPENDING $ ON WARS. Better spend them for traveling across our universe...

  • @ixonixas We cannot do that because of religion.

  • @rsman169 Why?

  • @ixonixas i agree.. fuck the korean wars

  • @ixonixas I dont think universe is really ours. I think there other species in the univerce who think same way as u xD

  • @evkol001 Thats why we need to spend all money that goes for war into space missions. Maybi if we find ET we can do wars with them... You know starwars and startreck can become reality.

  • @evkol001 the are monkeys.

  • @ixonixas easier to make bombs and weapons then advanced spaceships and weapons is good and easy earning money

  • @ixonixas you're so fucking right !

  • @koryutheriverflow no need to swear lol

  • why don't any of these edu/docu type programmes give scale.Absolutely useless without scale.

  • Sure, no clear space. I wonder what is really there,.

  • Methane? When we run out of gas on Earth, we mine titan

  • is it true that titan has live animals in it's water. i don't know but i heard about it afew years back.

  • @Jxrred no animals on titan. 

  • maybe there is an animal that has found a way to use liquid methane as we use water. H2O has a interesting quality as it will breakdown things. i remember an experiment with liquid methane and they put a cracker in water and liquid methane and the cracker in water dissolved fine and the cracker in methane was the same and it cracked like a fresh cracker. he put it in liquid methane for 3 min. and sired it.

    this shows that methane cant breakdown things like our H2O can here on earth.

  • @Jxrred I'm sure this is false (although we can never be sure). If they had found live animals it would have been a pretty big deal. There would be almost no way to escape the news of it. As far as I know we haven't found anything.

  • ahhhhh it's a neverending cycle.

  • @UjjijjU ke okay oop ah kiyer

  • @aasyran stupid dicksucker

  • let's go there and terraform titan!:D

  • A pool of methane.. so titan is a farty moon?

  • @8DX and if you light a match, you'll burn the entire Titan ;D

  • @rochelimit55555 You can't light fire without oxygen, there're no oxygen on Titan...

  • @warlord500x Non-oxygen oxidizers exist that can replace oxygen resulting in a fire and flames can be generated by other gases, such as hydrogen or fluorine. Our Sun in fact is composed mostly of hydrogen and helium atoms and their associated nuclear fusion is what powers the enormous star's energy, heat and solar flares.

  • what is the music at 3:58 ?

  • every picture of the moon, mars, or now titan have been washed out for us to believe they are barren rocky desert. they expect us to believe that the sand, rocks sky and cloud are all the same colors? come on. for all we know there's another part of this huge moon with far more interesting things on it. it's like ET's landing a probe in the a barren desert on earth......nothing there! which is precisely what they would want us to believe, for a ton of various reasons.

  • @CODE5030

    well how could you possibly resemble the unaltered appearence something properly you can't take a photo of under given circumstaces like such on earth? besides, pictures of luna and especially mars really do reflect the true landscape nowadays, just google them up.

  • its really strange to think of these small metal probes berried in the sand of distant planets.

  • Dude, I started tearing up when I heard the music and saw the picture at 4:00. Lol, I dunno why. I guess I felt really happy for those scientists because they had been waiting like 20 years and most of the images had been lost. :)

  • Totally Fascinating!

    thank you!

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  • @MuerteSigiliosa It has water

  • @jordmanb2 And, if I recall, I believe its the only Moon with an atmosphere similar to Earth's.

  • @MuerteSigiliosa The moon's not a planet.....neither is Titan.....Titan's a moon as well.....I don't like you.....

  • @MuerteSigiliosa this moon is a better chance of human life then mars, look it up

  • @n809n There still is speculation that there is some moisture that could be trapped under the surface or under rocks. So there may be life, but it is very unlikely.

  • @MuerteSigiliosa This one because we are going to move in. Just checking that the natives are friendly.

    And the view of Saturn is very pretty.

  • great video. :) Thanks

  • ....space exploration;...brought to you by the spark of the Aryan mind. You're welcome.

  • very nice but why the hell are all the pictures taken by nasa in black and white?

  • Imagine the same context,on another moon/planet,but the first picture on the ground reveals grass.Imagine the emotion the entire human race would feel to such an unveiling.God i wish i could be alive to feel such a discovery.

  • Not so awesome. So is the whole moon flammable or just part of it? If the got a good recording then that would have been great rather than a still picture like the mars rover anyways you guys know how NASA is they only give us half the info and analyze the rest I bet you those 350 so called lost pictures possible show other details.. HHHmm I wonder....

  • Fuck all that I say ceres because it's PERFECT!

  • They might want to consider adding a few USBs as temporary storage for data next time :| I never leave home without it, I'd rather have it and not need it, than not have it and need it...

  • They never though of that then r kid, 7 years from leaving earth to landing on Titan is a long time and this probe was devised in the 80's so you can't blame them for that.

  • thats the reason they send space probes n to analyze what can be discovered in Titan n the space probes r indeed equipped with high tech equipment to do those things.. but since these gadgets r manuevrable from Earth where did that particular unturned switch come from?? n it cost so much money..

  • OMG almost a billion dollars in taxpayers money just to snap a photo?? simply because a moron forgot to turn on a switch in the space probe? no way man....

  • @anjojune You know, the challenge of getting there is more than half the benefit. This is one way that science advances.

  • @anjojune You are forgetting that the photo has enough information to give sceintists data for over 10 years.

  • i wonder what would happen if you try lighting a match on titan llol :P

  • nothing theres no oxygen!

  • How do we know that anyways? I always here them throw around how they know certain elements/compounds are on planets and moons, but how can they be sure?

  • @sonicchao112244

    For fire you need IGNITION, FUEL and OXYGEN. Missing any one and the match is useless.

  • @sonicchao112244 Nothing since it is too cold and there are only very minute traces of oxygen. Thus the matchstick would not light up. The same reason to why when the probe landed on titan, it did not ignite the whole "swamp" that it landed on despite being red hot.

  • our solar system is amazing!

  • @jamieball

    our solar system aint shit to other solar systems i bet

  • @harryboy300 You're probably right.. We can't even imagine the wonders out there..

  • @jamieball space is amazing. I hope we will invent hypercosmic drive engine till i live :)

  • @ixonixas try to find a way to get antimatter and store it safely, than you got your engine :P so i hope you do :D

  • @jamieball The Universe is amazing <3

  • I want to go there... and touch the surface...

  • even with the protection we have these days, you would die in minutes if not seconds...

  • @kobokor53 it will be cold and oily ;)

  • @kobokor53: Don't forget your gloves.

  • @kobokor53

    Prepare to freeze solid in a few seconds. :(

  • @kobokor53 and probably die...

  • Methane is only one fuel you need oxygen to make a flame

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  • XD haha

  • lmao good one XD

  • Yeah, but there is no oxygen so you couldn't even ignite your cigarette.

  • @ultrasynthetic

    Not a problem. No oxygen.

  • @ultrasynthetic actually, you couldn't smoke as there isn't any oxygen *drum roll*

  • @CptCoolXD There is oxygen. Just minute traces of it. Thus you are right, it is not possible to burn the whole moon.

  • @1234yersiman Learn something new every day :)

  • @ultrasynthetic lol yea I wonder if the whole planet would eventually ignite if you dropped a match on it.

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  • @ultrasynthetic there is not oxygen for it to be flammable...

  • no its not, to create fire, you need oxygen.

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  • @ultrasynthetic We need oxygen or some sort of oxidizer for combustion to occur on the planet and from what information we have, the only place you would find oxygen is in the frozen ice 'hills' on Titan and even then it would be ridiculously hard to extract.

  • @ultrasynthetic REally i din't no that! Really interesting, i wonder what Nasa was hoping to find when landing on this beautyfull moon :o)

  • @ultrasynthetic You wouldn't be able to light a cigarette anyway. No oxygen.

  • at 4:00 the music is from the film armageddon

  • Imagine all that energy. All that liqued butane. An entire planet of liter fluid.

  • umm wen andromada and our milkway collide in a few billion years, itll just make a big galaxy, its not gunna kill us all!

  • Too soon for Titan. We will need to work on terraforming Mars first. I think we are still a generation or 2 away from even getting started on that

  • mars first? have you known titan? they have half the stuff earth does when mars only has ice caps, do titan then double are efforts and so on

  • I realize that Titan has earth like properties but it is VERY far away. Too far away to mount any kind of terraforming project. Mars has a water source and therefore the potential for growth. We must start there. It's low gravity will also allow for construction of spacecraft that can start the process of terraforming moons like titan. If terraforming works on Mars then we may be able to develop at least a temperate or subarctic climate suitable to the human condition.

  • well maybe they should finish there 5 billion dollar space elvator before mars, with that elevator, we can launch stuff faster then before

  • no argument from me on that note

  • Terraforming mars won't work cause of its thin atmosphere. This means UV rays, which are normally protected by our atmosphere will pass through mars' atmosphere and wreak havoc on all plants from earth. Anyone with a background in chemistry can tell you our essential organic C-C bonds spontaneously break under UV light.

  • perhaps then we need to find a way to create or enhance an atmosphere on Mars. We will need to fix our own first though

  • This is the best we can do?

    Come on.

  • earthlings couldnt survive on other planet.. but i sure aliens does..

  • watch, for about 10 years later, people start to live there

  • I highly doubt it. It's too far away, too dangerous to get there, and the climate is freezing. The atmosphere contains too little oxygen.

  • dude it takes decades for a probe to reach saturn

  • maybe in a few billion years there might be life on titan and by then all the humans will die out or if technology is high enough we will be able to move to another planet or live in a ship in space

  • dude in a few billion years the sun is going to do a supernova on us and the entire solar system will go bye bye we just have to get the hell out of this solar system

  • Actually lol the andromada and milky way are going to collide in like 2 billion years or so lmao

  • i heard it was five billion but hey two are better then one

  • think about it look how far we have come in 100 years think about how much more advanced we will be in 1000 years and on

  • fuel on earth would most likely have run dry in 150 years' time.. unless there r new alternatives to spacecraft fuel in the next 150 years, forget about moving out to space until natural fuel on earth renews itself in maybe... a few million years later..

  • @veloux We have other alternatives fuels. By the way, the fuel that the rockets use is not an earth renewable resource. They use factory produced liquid oxygen and hydrogen. Even if we lost all of these, we are still capable of getting to space and far beyond our solar system on Nuclear power. Unfortunately, after WWII, the USA signed a treaty that no nuclear power would be used in space. I suspect this will change soon as it is what we need if we want to be able to go farther than mars.

  • But that was only one small spot on Titan. That would be like another planet landing in the middle of the desert with no buildings around.  Would they think that is what the whole planet was made of?

  • hm, I hear from leading world shamans that the most dangerous beings of darkness attack the earth via Titan daily :/

  • wtf does that mean dude not to be rude

  • hm, smth like forces of material condensation use Titan as relay station in our solar system

  • HM, LOL