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First the possibility of life on Titan is almost asinine it is so remote. Hydrocarbon liquids almost three hundred degrees below the freezing point of water are hardly the cradle of life. Life needs at least two things energy and something to convert. With no evidence of conversion, and little to no energy to be had. Even if life were to form it would be very hard pressed to self replicate. The hardiest cold microbes on Earth can take thousands of years to self replicate with a energy source a thousand times more powerful. While they receive healthy protection from radiation in the form of a ozone layer, and a powerful magnetic field. Basically radiation would have the upper hand on titan, and going deeper only means less energy for life.

Second sure they could drop a probe into one of the lakes. However your looking at perhaps fifteen years before such a mission would probably be launched. Most probes to the outer solar system require gravitational assist, and that means the planets need to be in a proper alignment. Basically your probably looking at a time frame of at least twenty years before any probe could probably fill out that function. Remember it was 23 years between visits to Saturn, and the latest trip took seven years. I wouldn't wait around for it.

However chances are by the time another probe comes along the question will probably be a moot point. The new space interferometers being launched over the next five years will be surveying hundreds of planets the size of Earth around other stars, and they should be able to detect the chemical footprint of life. So by that point if any space agency is still interested in life on Titan you most assuredly would not. Hell by that point life on other worlds for everyone could just be a little fact of life.

Finally when the question comes to jumping into a pool of supercooled hydrocarbons I would wager the first outcome would be half a second of boil, and you flying a dozen feet into the air. Where you would flash freeze into a human formed giant red ice cube which would plummet back into the still boiling surface. There to float for a few hundred million years while cosmic background radiation slowly sublimates your body into oblivion. Hell who needs a tombstone. Seriously bringing two objects with a temperature differential four hundred degrees apart together is an invitation to explosion. You would be blown up, boiled, flash frozen, burned, suffocated, poisoned, corroded, eviscerated, irradiated, and eventually evaporated. Hell Rasputin didn't have it that good.

Doesn't anyone here know that they've already landed on Titan and I had discerned on my own that lakes were on it in 2005?

Huygens was basically a modern equivalent of a Soviet Venus probe. What it did was land on a hard surface, take some poor quality pictures, and perhaps take a few atmospheric readings. Basically this story shows it was utterly redundant, and more to the point it really was a publicity stunt for the European Space Agency. What we saw with Huygens was the modern equivalent of the Soviet Venera program. Which itself was very weak on science.

You might gather I dislike the piggy backing that has been going on with space probes lately. They have become more of a me too phenomena than an agency actually trying to push the boundaries of science or engineering. The only agency really pushing the limits is NASA. Which is a real shame anyone fascinated in planetary science would love to see something along the lines of the rover program out of the other space agencies. However that is never going to happen if they keep just buying space on American probes.

ME TOO ME TOO! but thats awesome i want to live thet along with my uncle dave and my cousins sarah and lauran!

^ but we might freeze

pichu_pichu said: ^ but we might freeze

Put on a cost and some hats and mitten and your ready to go!