What If You Swam in Titan's Lakes for 5 Seconds?

Titan the most majestic of Saturn's many moons and the most promising for life too it's got a beautiful view and liquid Lakes on its surface the only problem is those Lakes aren't filled with water they're filled with liquid methane your mission is to take a five second dip in one of them of course you'd have to land on Titan first so buckle up for the most epic adventure of your lifetime Titan is far even at its closest to Earth this icy moon is still 1.2 billion kilometers away from us you'd be looking at roughly seven

years of travel alone in a spaceship you'd need lots of provisions and a super Advanced life support system you know it would be good if you made it to Titan and didn't freeze or suffocate somewhere in the middle of the solar system yeah that's not going to happen to you just sit back and enjoy the ride seeing Saturn up close is amazing definitely the most spectacular of all the ringed planets in the solar system but hey enough sightseeing it's time to make your way to your destination Titan is unique in many ways for one it's

larger than our moon it's even bigger than Mercury the smallest planet in our Cosmic neighborhood it's the only Moon that has a thick atmosphere it's also the only one that's covered in liquid lakes rivers and seas and sometimes it rains here too sending on Titan would take you about two and a half hours and you couldn't just land anywhere like I say Titan is covered in Lakes so unless you want it to dip your entire spacecraft in liquid methane you better choose your Landing site carefully let's try this again okay now that you've properly landed

on Titan let's go explore this icy world this moon of Saturn might look a lot like Venus but it's not as hellishly hot Titan is one of the most hospitable places in the solar system yeah its gravity is only 14 of Earth's but it's thicker atmosphere makes it possible for you to walk there even without a spacesuit but I wouldn't recommend that you'd need the spacesuit to keep you warm Titan is very far away from the Sun so it doesn't receive as much warmth as we do here on Earth you'd be taking a Brisk stroll

at a chilling minus 180 degrees Celsius well you wouldn't exactly be strolling more like bouncing around yeah thanks to Titan's weaker gravity you'd feel a lot lighter and could jump higher and move with less effort now Titan's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen very similar to Earth's but you still couldn't breathe on this Moon because well that's where the similarity ends while 95 of the air here is nitrogen the remaining five percent is methane you'd need an oxygen tank to survive even five seconds on this world yeah it's not just the lakes that have methane in them

there's plenty of methane in Titans clouds and sometimes it even rains methane but this rain isn't anything like you've seen on Earth it would be more like rain in slow motion thanks to Titan's lower gravity and thick atmosphere on Earth raindrops fall at about 9 meters per second but on Titan their speed is only about 1.6 meters per second that's six times slower pretty cool walk in the rain hit but hey you didn't come here for a walk in the rain you came to take a dip in Titan's Lakes I wouldn't do that if I

are you oh excuse me who's here hi let's do this what's up everybody I'm Chase I'm from the year 3050. and for the last well things are a bit wobbly where I come from I've been traveling through space and time a lot thing is I die a lot like a lot it's kind of like my special power it all started when I touched this shiny alien Cube now I can jump Between Worlds Dimensions time and when I die I always come back I'm still trying to figure that one out I I think it has something

to do with Einstein I don't know it's pretty cool I jumped on the rings of distant planets been the guest of honor at an alien feast and not in a good way uh and there was that one time I accidentally started an Interstellar War suit but now I'm here on Titan to stop you from doing um whatever it is you're doing because he only went once unless you're me [Music] so your mission is to take a swim in one of these methane pools uh let me break it down for you first off this ain't no

spa day it's like diving into a freezer Titan's got this super chilly vat going on you know what I mean at these temperatures water is harder than concrete but methane and ethane they're like yeah it's cold bro but like we can still chill in liquid form and so they gather up at these cool little pools okay I knew that too sorry no interrupting I'm still just getting to the good part now let's say you're wearing that fancy space suit good news you won't freeze instantly into an [Music] that suit's gonna flow if for some wild

reason you decided to take the plunge without the suit well that's it my friend lights out you see the intense cold would freeze you down to your bone you couldn't move a muscle and then the lack of oxygen would get jump but five seconds with the spacesuit on finally survive probably Let's test it okay [Music] [Music] ah seems like someone's face to can't withstand the cold someone needs an upgrade it's so refreshing out here I think I'll just stay another five seconds just to really enjoy it [Music] uh Chase ah don't worry these Sparks are

supposed to happen oh it's like a stabbing burning feeling hey [Music] it appears that the cold temperature cracked his suit and methane reacted with the oxygen tank inside it he should have read about this in the mission brief well just leave them here I guess anyway the mission is a success the only thing left is to figure out how to get home okay well maybe instead of returning to Earth we could set up shop on Titan but that sounds like a story or another what if