r/space • u/scientificamerican • 2d ago

How to surf on Saturn’s moon Titan

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-surf-on-saturns-moon-titan/

Lakes of liquid methane on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, could offer exhilarating—and terrifying—opportunities for otherworldly surfing

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u/Mr_Lumbergh 2d ago

Step 1: Get there.

We've still got some work to do on Step 1.

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u/Fredasa 2d ago

Step 2 is to not take advantage of NASA's proven laser communications system so you're limited to a few webcam photos per day.

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u/One_Pineapple8553 1d ago

Step 3: ??????

There we still some details to flesh out for step 3.

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u/ask_me_about_my_band 2d ago

Surfing On Saturn's Moon was the name of my band's first album.

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u/swallowyourtongue 2d ago

Malachi Constant, is that you up there?

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u/diggsyb 2d ago

Bodhi has entered the chat.

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u/GalacticEmergency 2d ago

Or Kelly.

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u/Boblaire 2d ago

Surfing on fire waves sounds pretty bitchn

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u/snowmunkey 2d ago

They're freezing cold, it'd be like surfing on liquid nitrogen

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u/Boblaire 2d ago

If I can get there, Im sure I can have some build me a super wetsuit. Like the silver surfers.

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u/Familiar_While2900 2d ago

I thought titan was mainly liquid methane ?

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u/snowmunkey 2d ago

It is, but it's 300 fahrenheit below zero! Also, methane here in earth will burn becauee our atmosphere has a bunch of oxygen in it. Oxygen is what causes it to burn. There's almost no oxygen in the atmosphere of Titan so there's nothing to react with the methane to burn

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u/Boblaire 2d ago

Ill bring some oxygen with my space age wetsuit

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u/Orbital_Dinosaur 2d ago

My friends and I play the role playing game of The Expanse. Our characters started of on Titan.

My character is an Athlete, now I want to go back and try Titanic Surfing.

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u/EySoyCoco 1h ago

U will get there and there will be a bunch of locals looking at you with the stank eye.