Usain Bolt Could Fly on Saturn Moon Titan: Here's How.


Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt
Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt finishes first at 100m men for the IAAF World Athletics Finals main event at Kaftatzoglio Stadium on September 11, 2009 in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Humans would be able to take flight off the surface of Saturn's moon Titan simply by running in a wingsuit — but only if they were as fast as sprinter Usain Bolt, a group of physics students say.
Of all the celestial bodies in our solar system, Titan most closely resembles Earth, with stable liquid on its surface and a dense, nitrogen-rich atmosphere. But its lakes are made of methane, it maintains chilly temperatures of minus 288 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 178 degrees Celsius), and the planet has lower gravity and a stronger surface pressure compared with Earth.

Hannah Lerman, a 21-year-old student at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, said in a statement that she had seen a lot of claims online that humans might be able to get aloft above Titan if only they could run across the alien terrain with wings strapped onto their arms. She wanted to put this idea to the test.

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