But wait … as seen from Titan, all the planets are going to be in different Zodiacal Constellations than where they are as seen from Earth! Plus, Earth itself will be in one of the signs, and Saturn will appear to be so big that it might straddle 2 or 3 signs at once. What does it mean to have Earth in the House of Capricorn? What does it mean to have Saturn in the Houses of Scorpio AND Sagittarius AND Aquarius all at the same time? And Uranus will be visible to the naked eye at certain places in your orbit. (Well, it WOULD be visible to the naked eye, if Titan’s atmosphere wasn’t so thick and brown you couldn’t see through it.) If Uranus is in the House of Aries, will that forebode the collapse of civilization as we know it?
Titan doesn’t get anywhere near the insolation needed to power the type of chemical reactions associated with Life As We Know It.
We may be able to engineer some type of power supply to the place, but I think our money would be better spent thickening Mars’ atmosphere or thinning Venus’. Perhaps we could kill both birds with one bush, and ship the excess greenhouse gasses from Venus to Mars…
Dr. Fidelius, Charlatan
Associate Curator Anomalous Paleontology, Miskatonic University
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DrF is right, Titan has nowhere near the insolation we need. If you want an insolent planet, you should go to mars. The INSOLENCE of that little bastard red planet is unbeleivable! You don’t need to worry about being cold, you’ll be furious and that’ll keep you steamed up.
Speaking of staying warm, you should check out that Venus babe. That chick is HOT! I mean, smokin! Better be careful around her, she has got an acid tongue…
Okay, enough with the silly metaphors. Anyway, Titan is very little like Earth, I should think, if only because it would probably be too cold to be worth terraforming until we’ve taken care of Mars, Venus, beneath the surface of Mercury, a few space stations, and done something about that silly asteroid belt (think we could make a planet, y’all?).
I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail.
Surgoshan, I seem to recall reading somewhere that Titan already had a slight greenhouse effect, and that it would not take much effort (relatively, in terms of difficulty in terraforming) to increase that to shirtsleeve temperature, if not exactly a breathable atmosphere.
As long as we’re hijacking this thread (which richly deserves it), what would you terraform if you were in charge of the U.N. Terraforming Planning Office that will probably be created sometime this century?
Um, Scylla, Titan is a saturnine planetoid, not a jovian one. I don’t want to be technical, but a developing planetoid is already experiencing something of an identity crisis.
Say hi to Charybdis for me.
The trouble with Sir Launcelot is by the time he comes riding up, you’ve already married King Arthur.
How dare you presume to correct me you impetuous fool! Of course I know that Titan is a moon of Saturn. Obviously since the Saturnine moons are Brothers and Sisters to Titan, they will tend to be a little more sympathetic, especialy with their Saturn watching over anything.
The Jovian moons of course are under no such
familial constraint, and it’s widely known that they are a loose disciplined bunch who tend to get away whith anything when their Dad’s “Eye” isn’t directly on them.
Wow, Scylla, that Martial attitude in response to a simple nitpick was a bit strong. If you cannot be Jovial about it, at least try to keep Saturnine. Or an angered poster is apt to tell you what to do with your posts, probably referencing the next planet.
I’d think the rest of Saturn’s moons would be a little bit jealous of Titan, seeing how much bigger Titan is than any of them. And how it’s the only one to have an atmosphere.
