Can we steal Titan from Saturn ???

Titan seems to be pretty impressive, but far too cold.This is not
good.

So I'd suggest to steal this moon from Saturn by attaching some
super-engines to the moon itself OR using a spacecraft with a tractor
beam.

Then we could move the moon between Earth and Mars and use it for
colonization.

Great idea, isn't it?

Dan Simper wrote:
Titan seems to be pretty impressive, but far too cold.This is not
good.

So I'd suggest to steal this moon from Saturn by attaching some
super-engines to the moon itself OR using a spacecraft with a tractor
beam.

Then we could move the moon between Earth and Mars and use it for
colonization.

Great idea, isn't it?

No--It would cause havoc here

There is no such thing as a tractor beam. It s fiction. Star Trek is
fiction. It is not real.
Titan is far too massive to move, too.

Matthew Ota

Dan Simper wrote:
Titan seems to be pretty impressive, but far too cold.This is not
good.

So I'd suggest to steal this moon from Saturn by attaching some
super-engines to the moon itself OR using a spacecraft with a tractor
beam.

Then we could move the moon between Earth and Mars and use it for
colonization.

Great idea, isn't it?

Dan Simper wrote:

Then we could move the moon between Earth and Mars and use it for
colonization.

Let's just run a really long hose to Titan and siphon off the methane.
That should meet our energy needs for a long time.

Randy

Randy Roy wrote:
Dan Simper wrote:

Then we could move the moon between Earth and Mars and use it for
colonization.


Let's just run a really long hose to Titan and siphon off the methane.
That should meet our energy needs for a long time.

You fool! We'll use up all our O2 burning it, and suffocate in a green
house nightmare!
;-)

Shawn

Originally Posted by Dan Simper

Titan seems to be pretty impressive, but far too cold.This is not
good.

So I'd suggest to steal this moon from Saturn by attaching some
super-engines to the moon itself OR using a spacecraft with a tractor
beam.

Then we could move the moon between Earth and Mars and use it for
colonization.

Great idea, isn't it?

Why stop there if we had the technology to do that lets just steal Saturn herself.Change the atmosphere and build a different Disney on each moon.And while we are talking about ridiculous things, how about electing me as President of the moon.

On 19 Jan 2005 08:35:10 -0800, "Randy Roy"
wrote:

Let's just run a really long hose to Titan and siphon off the methane.
That should meet our energy needs for a long time.

Which begs the question of why Titan has so much methane in its
atmosphere? "Methane is destroyed by sunlight" is what I've read.
Titan's been exposed to sunlight for as long as 4 billion years.

So what's the continuously replinishing source of methane on Titan?

NASA found a little bit of methane in the atmosphere of Mars and it is
considered a big mystery. Now we have Titan that is bathed in the
stuff.

---
Michael McCulloch

Michael McCulloch wrote:
On 19 Jan 2005 08:35:10 -0800, "Randy Roy"
wrote:

Let's just run a really long hose to Titan and siphon off the methane.
That should meet our energy needs for a long time.

Which begs the question of why Titan has so much methane in its
atmosphere? "Methane is destroyed by sunlight" is what I've read.
Titan's been exposed to sunlight for as long as 4 billion years.

So what's the continuously replinishing source of methane on Titan?

NASA found a little bit of methane in the atmosphere of Mars and it is
considered a big mystery. Now we have Titan that is bathed in the
stuff.

It's frozen/compact, and very few photons make it out that far?
--
ah

Michael McCulloch wrote:
Titan's been exposed to sunlight for as long as 4 billion years.

So what's the continuously replinishing source of methane on Titan?

NASA found a little bit of methane in the atmosphere of Mars and it is
considered a big mystery. Now we have Titan that is bathed in the
stuff.

The outer planets too are bathed in methane--I don't believe that's
considered an oddity.

I think the problem is not methane itself, but methane at specific
temperatures. Even at the relatively chilly Martian temperatures,
methane is perhaps light enough that it should escape to space.
A CH4 molecule is 16 amu. In comparison, N2 is 28 amu, Ar is 40 amu,
CO2 is 44 amu, and H2O is 18 amu. As you might expect, H2O has the
lowest concentration of those four in the Martian atmosphere. (CH4
is below even H2O, I believe.)

On Titan, surface gravity is perhaps half of what it is on Mars,
but the temperature is so low that even methane is too heavy to
escape.

On the Earth, the reason methane is an oddity (as rare as it is in
the atmosphere) is not just that it escapes, but that it reacts with
O2 to form H2O and CO2. It must therefore constantly be replenished.
I doubt that is an issue with Titan.

Brian Tung
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Michael McCulloch wrote:

Which begs the question of why Titan has so much methane in its
atmosphere? "Methane is destroyed by sunlight" is what I've read.
Titan's been exposed to sunlight for as long as 4 billion years.

And the intensity of the sunlight at Titan is?