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Will it be possible to live on Saturn's moon....Titan?

I realize it is very cold there now and much of everything is frozen. But billions of years from now when the sun becomes a red giant, do you think Titan will be close enough and warm enough to sustain life?

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    Nobody has any idea what makes a planet warm or cold. Venus is outrageously hot, Mars is awfully cold, and the Earth's axial tilt does not fully explain seasons or why the poles are so cold.

    You don't have to read many pages in history to realize that the sky above the Earth looked very different just a few thousand years ago. You might wonder why the ancients named their god after a planet that most people now can't even point to. Well, they were quite explicit about that: they didn't worship a god named for a planet, they worshiped the planet. In ancient days, Jupiter and Saturn dominated the sky.

    Here is a scientific investigation of ancient myths and legends, considering stories in hundreds of languages from all over the world and going back to 10,500 BC. It is very long, and it is still in progress.

    http://saturniancosmology.org/

    Here is an outdated introduction with pretty pictures:

    http://www.maverickscience.com/saturn.htm

    And here is a youtube presentation in six parts:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu_AL1qDOcU

  • 9 years ago

    Actually, Dannn, your knowledge is off. The sun will enter a red giant phase before it dies. It will not go supernova, and will certainly not become a black hole (as you suggested as a possibility.) Anyway, there will most likely not be any life on Titan, but it has been considered a possibility. As for being habitable by humans? Absolutely not.

  • BON
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    It could have enough heat to sustain life such as primordial or microorganism life because the sun would not last long enough after turning in to a Red Giant for any type of Intelligent life to form.

  • 5 years ago

    High-quality thinking but regrettably, that might no longer be feasible because of many reasons. One intent is that the gasoline giants are made of gasoline, which cannot solidify (particularly due to the fact the temperature is being increased). Another cause is that the gases would now not be fit for respiration (no oxygen). There are plenty more explanations why its now not viable, however for proper now, it just cannot be finished.

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  • 9 years ago

    Your knowledge of the sun is off. The sun is slowly losing its mass. In a few billion years, the sun will die and be much smaller which will turn it into a white dwarf or a black hole. It will not get bigger.

  • 9 years ago

    Unless you happen to be a methane-breathing creature, then no. It's atmosphere barely contains any oxygen, so that's a definite no for humans.

  • 9 years ago

    The atmosphere is toxic, so very unlikely.

  • 9 years ago

    No dude I don't thank so.

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