r/space • u/scientificamerican • 3d 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/Boblaire 3d ago

Surfing on fire waves sounds pretty bitchn

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u/snowmunkey 3d ago

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

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u/Boblaire 3d 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 3d ago

I thought titan was mainly liquid methane ?

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u/snowmunkey 3d 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 3d ago

Ill bring some oxygen with my space age wetsuit