Spending 24 Hours in Saturn's Rings

now let's pretend that Humanity faces a

huge threat from outer space so we'll

imagine that a giant planet-eating

octopus comes to our solar system to eat

uh Venus Mars Earth Jupiter and other

planets except Saturn therefore people

decide to move to the big planet with

giant rings fortunately they already

have cool technologies that allow them

to make such trips so we get into giant

ships take off and fly to Saturn

life on the planet itself is impossible

because it has no Solid Ground the ship

won't be able to land there this is a

Giant Gas ball that is nine times wider

than Earth to compare their sizes look

at a five cent coin and a baseball and

the planet's atmosphere consists mainly

of hydrogen and helium so if the ship

starts to land it'll never reach Solid

Ground and the lower it goes the higher

the pressure it will experience

eventually the ship will just be crushed

therefore we have only one choice the

rings of Saturn

they're made up of giant medium-sized

and tiny particles of ice and rock

flying around the gas giant at

tremendous speed they were formed from

comets flying by Saturn's gravity

knocked these celestial bodies off their

course and crush them with its pressure

fragments of these comets began to

accumulate around Saturn forming Rings

now some of these particles fly faster

some are slower the closer to the planet

is the d-ring it's followed by Rings C

and B then there's a large gap called

Cassini division Rings a f g and e come

after this classification is very

convenient for creating a ring map so

people approach the Rings but don't dare

to land on them first they send test

capsules with robots to scout the area

the robots choose a suitable location on

the e-rig in fact the distance between

the Rocks is quite large and the ship

can easily fly there there are tiny

particles huge rocks the size of houses

and comets the size of a whole Mountain

the first robot flies up to a large rock

at high speed at this moment a

baseball-sized stone pierces the robot's

body another robot gets smashed between

two colliding Boulders the third robot

gets caught in a rain of sharp icicles

and brakes

people have big engineering workshops on

their ships so they build new capsules

and new robots this time they're made of

more durable materials so the robots

reach a big rock again a few particles

crash into them but don't break through

the armor the machine set up a small

station on a flying rock where people

can live but after a couple of hours a

big chunk of asteroids smashes the

station well seems like we need another

strategy giant ships scan the entire

area of the e-ring and calculate the

trajectories of billions of stones after

length and calculations people finally

find the perfect places in the middle of

this chaos that will stay intact for a

long time they land on these large rocks

in their castles and begin to settle

down

they build stations in small houses and

install powerful batteries on them

Saturn is located at a distance of nine

and a half astronomical units from the

Sun one unit is the distance from the

Sun to Earth so Saturn is a pretty cold

place that's why there's so much ice

flying around it

but how to get the energy to heat it all

up there's too little of it on large

ships besides solar panels are

ineffective here because of the great

distance from the Sun therefore

scientists create a way to generate

kinetic energy from flying Stones it's

like a windmill when the wind drives the

fans these movements are converted into

energy so engineers build panels that

collect power from the moving stones but

it doesn't slow the speed of rocks down

because Saturn's gravity continues to

move them thus people receive a source

of almost Limitless energy

some space stations have plants and

trees that produce oxygen through

photosynthesis only instead of sunlight

they get energy from ultraviolet then

people fill large tanks with oxygen and

carry them to their homes

people begin to occupy the adjacent

Rings you don't need a lot of fuel to

get from one place to another you can

land on a rock calculate its route and

wait for it to bring you to the needed

point then you can move to another one

and so on until you reach your

destination more and more people leave

their ships and move to the Rings it

seems that life is getting better but

then psychological problems begin

constant movement in the vacuum of space

drives everyone mad imagine living on a

carousel that never stops you can't walk

to the store whenever you want because

it always flies away no one can go out

for a walk even in a space soon because

there's a chance to come across a rock

flying at high speed you can't plan

anything because at the moment your

plans can be ruined by a giant piece of

ice

computers don't help either they can't

calculate the trajectories of all space

bodies rocks tend to break and split

into hundreds of smaller ones also new

comets fly by and also become part of

the Rings all this creates uncertainty

and causes a sense of anxiety in people

besides it's dark cold and very lonely

on the Rings now think about building a

base on a space object but your best

friend lands on another one a few miles

away then a giant icicle crashes into

his Rock and increases its speed and a

few days later your friend is too far

away and it happens all the time

the only way to change your life is to

settle on one of Saturn's moons the

planet has 83 of them people have

already confirmed and named 63 and the

existence of 20 others has yet to be

confirmed they're all like different

worlds some of them may be habitable and

the best candidate among them is Titan

there may be water on it and its

atmospheric pressure is only one and a

half times greater than Earth's its

atmosphere consists of Nitrogen and a

little methane forming carbon smog in

Titan's upper layers for this reason we

can't study this Moon from Earth but the

coolest thing is that Titan flies

outside the rings of Saturn this means

people can lead a quiet life there

there's also satellite Phoebe covered

with craters like our mode this giant

Celestial body looks more like a

gigantic meteorite people have a lot of

choices of where to start a new life

during a couple of hundred years spent

on ships near Saturn you Hyundai would

learn everything about its satellites

but why did they try to live on the

Rings why didn't they land on one of the

moons from the very beginning because

well then this video would be less fun

and a whole lot shorter

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officially born inside the rings of

Saturn let's say a massive meteorite

with frozen water got caught by the

planet's gravity there were the simplest

life forms inside the eyes and then this

life began to acquire more developed

forms imagine that the large Rock

managed to remain untouched for hundreds

of millions of years and during this

time humans appeared but of course they

would be very different there

firstly they wouldn't experience

gravitational forces this would make

them taller but weaker people's skin

would be pale because of the lack of

light but very Hardy thanks to cold

temperatures particles of ice and grains

of sand flying in space would roughen

people's skin in such biological armor

without gravity they would jump from one

rock to another in search of food and

water and by the way that would be the

main problem how would people survive

without oxygen in the vacuum of space

where would they get their food Saturn's

rings are a pretty lifeless and

dangerous place if there are not even

the simplest forms of life there then

how could such a complex one as the

human appear therefore even in theory

the appearance of people would be

impossible there.