Drift Off To The First Titan Colony's ENTIRE First Century

Hey guys! We’re now live on Spotify🎧 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/033fToV... On Titan, rain falls as slowly as snow, the seas are liquid natural gas, and fuel lies everywhere yet nothing can burn. This is the first human colony there, followed through its entire first century, from a slow descent through orange skies to a harbour on the shore of a methane sea. Beneath it all, hydrogen drifts down through the haze and vanishes at the frozen ground. What is waiting at the bottom of Titan's sky, and what will the colony learn about its new home before its hundredth year? CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 1:31 The Long Fall to Saturn 17:34 Descent Through Six Hundred Kilometres of Air 33:27 The Day That Lasts Sixteen Days 48:58 Air You Could Almost Breathe 1:05:09 The Cold That Turns Ice to Stone 1:21:14 Fuel Everywhere and Fire Nowhere 1:36:56 Breath and Bread From Ice and Air 1:52:32 The Equinox Storms 2:08:43 The Colony at Its First Crossroads 2:25:10 Children of a Lighter Pull 2:41:34 Wings in the Thick Air 2:57:44 The Shore of the Kraken 3:14:14 Rings of Crystal and Mountains of Ice 3:30:22 The Question at the Surface 3:46:30 Listening to the Deep 4:02:49 Seasons Turning Over the Seas 4:19:07 The Hundredth Year SOURCES Data reanalysis throws existence of an ocean on Titan into question — https://physicstoday.aip.org/news/dat... Saturn's Moon Titan Drifting Away Faster Than Previously Thought — https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/saturns... The bathymetry of a Titan sea — https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/201... What is Consuming Hydrogen and Acetylene on Titan? — https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/what-is... Titan's Surface Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth — https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system... Bounce, Skid, Wobble: How Huygens Landed on Titan — https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/bounce-... Organic building blocks discovered in Titan's atmosphere — https://www.esa.int/Science_Explorati... Swirling Cloud at Titan's Pole is Cold and Toxic — https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/swirlin... Cassini Sees the Two Faces of Titan's Dunes — https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/cassini... Cassini detects dust storms on Titan for the first time — https://www.ipgp.fr/en/news-and-agend... Bathtub rings around Titan's lakes might be made of alien crystals — https://news.agu.org/press-release/ba... Methane-filled canyons line Titan's surface — https://news.agu.org/press-release/me... NASA Finds Moon of Saturn Has Chemical That Could Form Membranes — https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/... After the Impact, a Chemical Kitchen on Titan — https://www.eaps.purdue.edu/news/arti... Alien raindrops surprisingly like rain on Earth — https://news.agu.org/press-release/al... #TitanColony #SaturnsMoonTitan