While Titan is larger than Mercury it looks like a pea next to a beach ball in this Photograph. Makes one look in awe at the size of the gas giants in our solar system.
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Orin
Gasoline is sure cheap but they charge an arm & a leg for oxygen.orin stepanek wrote:http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080324.html
Rain on Titan may be like gasoline? Anybody need to fill up?![]()
High winds, per se, would not pose a problem for aircraft; it is rather the amount of strong turbulence and wind shear.orin stepanek wrote:With Saturn's dense atmosphere; would it be probable to use a winged glider to probe the atmosphere for a substantial length of time? With the high winds there, a pretty sturdy probe could be used. Just a thought.
While Titan, other moons, and the asteroids may someday be an option I think we should start closer to home. Luna would be the place to start. I would think the areas around the moons axis would be more moderate temperature wise and would be where I would set up a permanent base. Maybe working underground would be practical as excavated space may also double as a shelter. But even so; harvesting the minerals of the solar system will take a while to be practical. Dreams do eventually turn to reality. When I was a kid we were still bound to this planet!Arramon wrote:Mining off-world within 50 years should be an ultimate goal of the human race. With the advancement of technology like it is, especially just within the last 50 years, by 2060, we should be all over the place and then some, wondering how to reach the next star in less than 1 human lifetime.Solar power, fossil fuels... nuclear... come on! If we didn't have to fight the gravity well just to enter open space, things would require so little more, until you land somewherez else that has a formidable atmosphere to require the use of propellants to leave it. Otherwise lets jump on those icey moons and cratered asteroids everywhere and start diggin!Now THAT I can digg..... =b